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Running Out of Road truly has crowd support

Kickstarter campaigns remain a valuable aid to many an artistic endeavor. The crowd-funding platform continues to grow – so far, it’s helped more than 200,000 projects get off th...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Top national act comes to town for Celtic festival

As the Durango Celtic Festival reaches its toddler years, it’s continuing to grow in numbers and talent. Ticket sales continue to increase, and a buzz among the Celtic community ...

DATE: Mar 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

California label cultivates Durango fans

Since 2009, the San Francisco-based record label “20-Sided Records” has slowly built a fan and friend base in Durango, with bands signed to the label performing a handful of shows around tow...

DATE: Mar 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Voodoo Glow Skulls will deliver funk, ska

The annual concert hosted by Fort Lewis College’s Student Union Productions is growing into one of the college’s premier student music events. According to a survey of all student...

DATE: Feb 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Three Favorites’ might end up your favorite

The San Juan Symphony remains the classical musical outlet in the Southwest, with performances that continue to be packed house affairs. It also continues to have a mission of ed...

DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dan Bern to christen new Cortez theater

Eleven years in, and KSJD radio, the community station serving Montezuma County, Southeast Utah and Northern Arizona, continues to spread its signal around the region. In 2012, t...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Mastersounds remind U.S. of its taste for funk

Sometimes it takes outsiders to turn American music fans onto what’s made in their own backyard. While early American blues musicians were ignored here in the states, musicians s...

DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Lyons flood leads to inspired songwriting

In 2013, a flood in Lyons destroyed businesses, wrecked homes and drastically changed residents’ lives. Musician Terry Kishiyama’s house was spared, but the bridge to his home wa...

DATE: Jan 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Willie Waldman delivers jazz Memphis-style

It was on Beale Street in 1983 when trumpeter Willie Waldman began his musical relationship with saxophone player Herman Green. Waldman was a young musician on a marching band sc...

DATE: Jan 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hip-hop for a good cause at benefit concert

No matter where you stand politically or where your opinions on the American military take you, we all can agree how veterans should be treated when their service is up. Every da...

DATE: Jan 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Coming to ACT: Superfly sounds of The Earful

The American film industry owes a lot to funk music. I’m not talking about contributions from James Brown and George Clinton. I’m referring to instrumental bands that have provid...

DATE: Jan 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Six Dollar String Band: Keeping old-time alive

Durango’s Six Dollar String Band continues to be a local purveyor of a genre of music that out-dates us all. The quartet has been playing old-time music locally for three years. ...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown