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Galavant open to next experience

You’re never too old to start playing music. Especially in a fertile music community like Durango, where an armchair musician’s best inspiration is voicing a want to learn to play an instrum...

DATE: Jul 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dressy Bessy and Alicia Glass help celebrate KDUR’s 50th

Durango and Denver are about 337 miles apart. That’s about the same distance between Washington, D.C., and New Haven, Connecticut, a distance that has likely kept many a Denver band from pla...

DATE: Jun 24, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Shinyribs plays Silverton and Dolores

Kevin Russell went back to his roots for his latest release. The frontman of the Austin, Texas-based swamp-boogie, rootsy-soul and funk outfit Shinyribs has on most of the band’s recorded ca...

DATE: Jun 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Group Shower driven by music

Band will play Saturday at Nordfest III

DATE: Jun 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durango Barbershoppers perform annual show

They’re the longest running music and arts organization in Durango. Rolling through their 57th year, the Durango Barbershoppers, also known as The Durango Narrow Gauge Chorus, have been maki...

DATE: Jun 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

All aboard the Blues Train with Brody Buster

A train car on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge line is the perfect size for a performing one-man band tucked into either end of the car. Roughly about 102 inches or 8.5 feet wide, a sin...

DATE: May 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Mojo Birds’ music a mix of genres

The genre that is “Afro-Peruvian-Mojo” is not household term when it comes to music terms. It does, however, remain an apt descriptor for local band Mojo Birds. Part indie-pop and soul band,...

DATE: May 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Celebrating 20 years of The Infamous Stringdusters

Happy 20th birthday to the Grammy-winning progressive bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. And a way to do up 20 years as a band is to play a festival with a load of your festival and ...

DATE: May 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Seun Kuti: A lifelong musician

Some kids bond with their parents through sport, or perhaps a hobby. Seun Kuti bonded with his dad through music. Not just listening to certain bands, or collecting records, but playing and ...

DATE: May 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Robin Davis Duo drops new record

Robin and Jimi Davis make music that sounds like it’s a hundred years old. It’s not. While Robin could likely sit in with anybody’s roots or rock band, he specializes in acoustic music. It’s...

DATE: Apr 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

YOPE plays iAM Music Fest

Local band YOPE is a band on the rise and the move. Since forming over a year ago, they’ve been hitting it hard, playing local venues, digging into obscure tunes to cover and collectively wr...

DATE: Apr 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Congrats to Sam Kelly

Sam Kelly’s talent and stage presence helped him land his latest full-time gig. The Dolores raised saxophone player cut his teeth locally, playing in bands Elder Grown and Pants Party (among...

DATE: Apr 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown