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Elder grown back on stage

It’s not the greatest idea to live with your co-workers. Spending up to eight hours a day with certain personalities while on the clock can be challenging, but then to be by that person’s si...

DATE: May 8, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A music scene needs a music store

Sometimes, all a musician needs is a pick. And a town like Durango, one with a growing and fertile music scene that features dozens of bands of different genres; a couple of different nonpro...

DATE: Apr 29, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Tyler Grant Supergroup hits Tico Time Bluegrass Festival

The loose, bluegrass festival campground jam was a major contributor to guitar player Tyler Grant’s musical education. It’s a common festival occurrence: Go to any festival, spen...

DATE: Apr 22, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Terry Rickard, Durango’s jukebox

Local musician Terry Rickard is kind of like Durango’s jukebox. If you’ve bellied up to the bar in any Durango watering holes over the last 25 years, you’ve likely seen Rickard w...

DATE: Apr 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Patty Storen keeps up with Durango

One-time local mandolin player Patty Storen still keeps a foot in Durango’s rich acoustic music scene. A founding member of local jam-grass band Liver Down the River, Storen has ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dana Ariel branching out musically

Local musician Dana Ariel grew up a festival kid. Carted up to Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs by her parents for the bluegrass, roots and folk festivals that bookend the summer...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sunny Gable’s new album out Saturday

The songwriting muse can hit at any time. Perhaps it hits when you’re staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. as you worry about how you’re going to pay for your kid’s college tuition. ...

DATE: Mar 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Astro Zombies pay tribute to The Misfits

The Misfits were a classic early 1980s hardcore-punk band. The small but rabid punk scenes in cities like Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles all showed this band some love, ...

DATE: Mar 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Bands to play fundraiser for Carol Clark

If you’re a Durango local, it’s likely you’ve met Carol Clark. Maybe you met her in the early days of Durango Farmers Market, the now Saturday morning summer staple she started 2...

DATE: Mar 4, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Concert Hall hosts Jack & The Vox

The ukulele is not a novelty instrument. The late Tiny Tim may have thought otherwise, using the ukulele as the musical vehicle to back his falsetto singing, and it may be an instrument you ...

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

For Larry Carver, playing guitar is mentally satisfying

Local musician Larry Carver will tell you that guitar players love their guitars. That includes Carver. He loves his 2016 Gibson Les Paul. He loves his 2004 Fender Stratocaster. He even love...

DATE: Feb 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Warren G. Hardings came together from jam sessions

Not many musicians can say they got into a certain style of music because their mom snuck them into a concert. But its how mandolin player Gabriel Marowitz was turned onto bluegrass, after h...

DATE: Feb 11, 2021 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown