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The Buzz is a melting pot band

They’re musically a melting pot band with a melting pot story of coming together. The five-piece, Denver/Front Range-based The Buzz formed member by member, partly by audition, partly by cha...

DATE: Oct 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Adam Swanson and pop culture of the past

Adam Swanson still only digs on pop culture of the past. The young pianist, who has been playing ragtime piano in the Diamond Belle Saloon since he was a teenager, has little interest in a...

DATE: Oct 7, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Farmington Hill attempts to record live album

If all goes as planned come late Saturday night, local rock band Farmington Hill will have a live album in the making. If all goes as planned. Those plans that need to go the band’s way in...

DATE: Sep 30, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Eric Kiefer one step ahead of live-music changes

Eric Kiefer was well prepared for the change the pandemic handed the live music business back in spring 2020. That change was in the mode of performance, when musicians went from standing o...

DATE: Sep 23, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Local musician kicks off solo career

Sometimes you have to start over. Or as Joshua Polaris, aka Josh Hoffman, says, hit the reset button. It’s what the local musician is doing as he kicks off a solo career after spending the ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dreem Machine band is electric

Robin Davis is not just a bluegrass picker, and his newest band Dreem Machine is not a bluegrass band. He’s more than a one-genre pony, despite being a flatpicking wiz and a major player in...

DATE: Sep 10, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durango native Gracie ‘Bassie’ Kruse: ‘Jamaica was so majestic to me’

Reggae musician Gracie “Bassie” Kruse didn’t want to be a bass player. The Durango native, who has played bass in reggae bands from Southern California to the Bay Area, Durango to Denver an...

DATE: Sep 2, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Punk Rock Breakfast benefits Compañeros, The Hive

Many cities will claim a music festival like a badge of honor. Austin has South by Southwest. Memphis has The Beale Street Music Festival and the lesser known Gonerfest. Telluride has many m...

DATE: Aug 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

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