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Chad MacCluskey on guitar

Local musician Chad MacCluskey has been inundated with music his entire life. His father, the late Tom MacCluskey, known around Durango as a piano player at various spots throughout the augh...

DATE: Jun 16, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Shinyribs in Pagosa for Folk ’N Bluegrass Festival

Musician Kevin Russell isn’t much into descriptors. The Texas-based musician has been part of the music game a long time, first known in this region as a member of the beloved Austin, Texas...

DATE: Jun 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Carute Roma hosts CD release party

Once you’re a fan of gypsy music you’re a fan for life. Doesn’t matter if you were once a punk rocker or jam band kid, an EDM fan or guitar-strumming folkie, when you commit whole hog to the...

DATE: Jun 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

For Bogner, a lifetime of drumming

Local musician Robert Bogner was a noisy kid. Whistling, talking, singing, even beating on things. He would make such a vocal racket that his father would offer him a dollar if he’d keep his...

DATE: May 26, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Haro in the Dark plays iAM MUSIC Fest

The story of local band Haro in the Dark’s formation plays out as a random meet of local musicians, a coming together of a collective of like-minded musicians eager to play. The local band ...

DATE: May 19, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Jon Stickley Trio plays Tico Time

Jon Stickley has built the perfect festival band. At times a bluegrass band, other times a mish of acoustic fusion and a mash of instrumental indie-prog with subtle flavorings of jazz and ja...

DATE: May 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A.J. Croce plays Croce at concert hall

It took two decades for A.J. Croce to come around to playing his dad’s music. The son of folkie-crooner Jim Croce of “Operator” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” fame, the younger Croce was always...

DATE: May 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Punk and metal at The Hive

Durango doesn’t live on bluegrass alone. Sometimes, you need a little power and amplification and genres like grindcore and powerviolence. Disclaimer: That latter term is a term only, it’s n...

DATE: Apr 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Meltdown Sisters one of weekend’s headliners

It’s time for the ladies to lead a bluegrass pick. Not that the ladies haven’t had a fair shake, as it seems its bluegrass is one specialized genre of music that has its share of females pic...

DATE: Apr 21, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Punk-rock improvisation with Banyan

Drummer Stephen Perkins has stretched his arms, complete with drumsticks in hand, much farther than the musical confines of Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros. While both bands explored pu...

DATE: Apr 14, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Oklahoma musician Ben Brock opens for Elder Grown

Ben Brock was a late bloomer. Many people start their music lessons in single-digit ages with piano lessons, a forced ritualistic activity that for some results in tears, wasted money, and u...

DATE: Apr 7, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Nathan Kalish plays pop-up show

Musician Nathan Kalish recently made himself a bit more local. The Nashville, Tennessee-based singer-songwriter, who last played Durango in 2018, won’t be moving to the area, but he has sign...

DATE: Mar 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown