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Side Pony plays at Buckley Park

It’s a songwriting and performance partnership that began in Nashville, Tennessee, through ties in Durango. Insurgent country singer-songwriter Caitlin Cannon has kicked around Durango sinc...

DATE: Aug 19, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Erik Nordstrom releases ‘Songs from Underground’

The musicians’ version of the phrase “make hay while the sun shines” is “record music while the microphones are set up.” A record or CD in your collection that’s not being heard is just a pi...

DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dirtwire brings the mix to Tico Time

They bring up to 20 different instruments on stage. Anything from traditional instruments like guitar and bass, to the nontraditional, like the jaw harp, kalimba, which is a thumb piano or a...

DATE: Aug 5, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Music festival celebrates Elton John

Everyone knows Elton John. He remains one of the most identifiable people both visually and auditorily in popular culture, a man behind some of the now most iconic songs in rock ’n’ roll an...

DATE: Jul 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sturtz from Boulder is a ‘listening room’ band

The city of Boulder can hang its hat on its acoustic music scene. Bands featuring stringed, acoustic instrumentation have been the dominant genre in the Front Range town for decades, Hot Riz...

DATE: Jul 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hash Cabbage makes up canceled Durango date

Most bands tour in support of one record. New Orleans-based band Hash Cabbage is currently out on the road supporting two, the result of a pandemic-thrown wrench that landed right on their t...

DATE: Jul 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Ely Cartwright: ‘Being an artist is a compulsion, I think’

Local musician Ely Cartwright is in the music-making business. But he’s not in the music “business.” He’s not tied into a contract that requires him to move musical units or sell tickets. H...

DATE: Jul 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Diabolical Sound Platoon bringing hip-hop to ACT stage

Older siblings are often the reason people dig on certain styles of music. A household ritual and often a familial right of passage, phrases like, “My older brother had a Sex Pistols record”...

DATE: Jul 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Maria’s Bookshop hosts Willy Vlautin and Jonathan Evison book event

Ask authors Willy Vlautin and Jonathan Evison what genre their books fit in and they’ll likely answer, “the genre of life.” The Pacific Northwest-based authors – Vlautin living outside Port...

DATE: Jun 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Miller and The Other Sinners play fest

David Miller waited until he was in his 40s to dive headfirst into his music career. Now, some may say that music is a young man’s game and perhaps it is, however, waiting until you near mi...

DATE: Jun 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Olde Schoolhouse ready to rock

It’s been the premier music venue for north La Plata County. Despite its inability to hold hundreds of music lovers because of its size, and the reality that the building’s intent was to nev...

DATE: Jun 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Anthony D’Amato in a Songwriters Circle

Three guitars, three voices, one stage and a load of songs. The first in-person performance the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College will host in over a year is a three-performer aff...

DATE: Jun 3, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown