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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

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