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Aftergrass reunites for a benefit show

It’s safe to say that local rock band Aftergrass never really broke up. Yet since going on an indefinite hiatus about eight years ago, the shows have been few and far between. Th...

DATE: Oct 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cody Tinnin records solo debut album ‘Perennial’ the old-fashioned way

Local musician Cody Tinnin digs the vintage. The bass player of local roots-bluegrass trio Stillhouse Junkies is into old clothes and old music, things that were created long before he was b...

DATE: Oct 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Suzanne Vega virtual show benefits Concert Hall

New York City is certainly not what it used to be. Long gone is the excessive graffiti, burnt out buildings in the Lower East Side, “The Warriors” and The Baseball Furies, replaced by condos...

DATE: Oct 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Rader’s new album a varied palette

Many professional musicians have traveled the same musical path to get to their current place. It’s a well-worn trail that for some began with a forced lesson, in most cases pian...

DATE: Sep 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Charlie Henry keeping things diverse

Local bass player Charlie Henry is still finding plenty of musical things to do, even though the uninvited guest that’s refusing to leave is still staining the industry. He’s bee...

DATE: Sep 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Radio show travels back in time to 1918

They may be two of the biggest history buffs in Durango behind retired Fort Lewis College history professor Duane Smith. Judith Reynolds is a local writer and political cartoonis...

DATE: Sep 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Four Corners Folk Festival hosted online

Society is inching back toward music normality. Slowly, like a turtle in a footrace with a sloth. But it’s happening. The shows that have happened live are as close to “normal” as they can p...

DATE: Sep 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Music available through art vending machines

Vending machines aren’t just for snack food anymore. A staple in office buildings or schools, they’ve been a great place to alleviate hunger, and even those of a certain age bracket will lik...

DATE: Aug 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Crockett making it up as he goes

Charley Crockett has packed a lot in to what is still a young music career. The Texan has been a busker, playing for change in cities both in the states and abroad. He’s hoboed a...

DATE: Aug 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sunny Gable releases new album

The early shut-in days of the uninvited guest that is refusing to leave offered all of us plenty of time to get some things done. Just as the to-do list was extending off the page, many were...

DATE: Aug 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Tim Birchard never stops the music

Write, record and release. That’s the pattern for local musician Tim Birchard, a pattern he’s followed for the past decade or so with regards to his music career – “career” being a loose ter...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Ike’s America’ radio show a history lesson

All of Ted Holteen’s favorite musicians are dead. Frank Sinatra died in 1998, Ella Fitzgerald in 1996. Vic Damone died in 2018, Bing Crosby in 1977 and Doris Day in 2019. But the...

DATE: Jul 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown