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Monheit plays Durango Cool Jazz event

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit did not have the typical childhood aspirations of what she was going to be when she grew up. She wasn’t going to be a teacher, a doctor, a nurse or any of those yo...

DATE: Dec 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Yves Giraud throws down roots

When musician Yves Giraud moved to Montezuma County, he found the musician pool deeper and packed with more musicians than anticipated. It was not as deep as in his former homes of Los Angel...

DATE: Dec 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Basilaris fuses diverse sounds into music

Albuquerque-based musician Lukas Scarpetta wanted to form a jazz band that didn’t want to be a traditional jazz band. It was all about branching out, using jazz as a musical starting point b...

DATE: Nov 24, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Stillwater Music opens new venue

The local music scene is lacking an entry-level sized music venue. If you’re an up and coming, touring small-band or singer songwriter who hasn’t played this area in the past, there are not ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Capitol Comedy brings political satire

Satire is a great part of comedy. It was a great tool in the 1970s on “All in the Family,” and it’s heavy in “South Park” and “Family Guy.” Unless it flies right over your head, which it lik...

DATE: Nov 10, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Carsie Blanton and her punk rock approach

Carsie Blanton does things the punk rock way. The Philadelphia-based musician’s sound wouldn’t be classified as “punk” to the average ear and audible descriptions, for punk-rock is a bottoml...

DATE: Nov 3, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dreem Machine plays the Starlight Lounge

The music Robin Davis hears in his head is hard rock. One might think its bluegrass or newgrass, as the Pagosa Springs born, raised and based musician may be best known to fans as a bluegras...

DATE: Oct 27, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Bullings driven by curiosity, passion

Wellington Bullings knew from the get-go she wanted to be a singer. Most kids “sing” when they are little, whether putting nonsensical phrases to melodies or doing their best to bang out wha...

DATE: Oct 20, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

ORA plays debut show

Durango has a new rock band, but its members have knocked around the local music scene for years. A band made up of players who have had homegrown projects in their own right for decades, O...

DATE: Oct 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Skerryvore brings combo of rock, Celtic music

Skerryvore is band with a great identity crisis. Call them a rock band with a Celtic-music habit, or a Celtic band with a rock-music habit, the Scotland-based group walks a fine-line between...

DATE: Oct 6, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Young Dubliners returns to Durango

Celtic rock band Young Dubliners’ young beginnings were as a bar band. Literally. In their early days in the mid-1990s, they were the house band for the bar that frontman and guitar player K...

DATE: Sep 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Evan Fricke Experiment to release new album

If it’s American-made genres of music, then local musician Evan Fricke has likely played in a band specializing in said genres. He’s handled the low-end in bluegrass and jazz, rockabilly and...

DATE: Sep 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown