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Nashville Songs & Stories: Songwriters take the stage

Songwriting is hard. Songwriting can also be profitable. However, not everyone who sits down to write a song is good at it, and even if you are good at it, that doesn’t mean you are going to...

DATE: Aug 24, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sometimes you just need to go home

Josiah Payne gets homesick. The Pagosa Springs-raised mandolin player set his musical sights for something bigger over a dozen years ago, and the Pacific Northwest was his destination. But s...

DATE: Aug 18, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

California Celts to play at Ska

Chris Poland has long and strong ties to Durango. He’s been playing in the area since the 1990s with his band Warsaw Poland Brothers, one of the many ska bands that started rolling through D...

DATE: Aug 10, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Forest Thump duo bonds over love of music

The sky’s the limit with electronic music. With no walls to fit between, no box to confine yourself in and no rules to adhere to, you can do whatever you want. Throw down a techno beat and a...

DATE: Aug 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cha Cha Cha! Latin Jazz Night for Music in the Mountains

Musicians can’t live on classical alone. Sometimes they need to dig into other genres, or at least one that is “close” to classical. Like jazz. Two different styles of music, but also two th...

DATE: Jul 27, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hymn for Her returns to Dolores

Hymn for Her is a full-blown family affair. What began as the duo of Wayne Waxing and Lucy Tight some 20 years ago in Philadelphia, playing garage rock and roots-punk via Waxing on drums wh...

DATE: Jul 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

After Midnight Jazz Band plays Buckley Park

Swing band music will always be cool. An inability to see its coolness is, well, not very cool. In this writer’s opinion, it’s still one of the hippest things around, a style of music that l...

DATE: Jul 13, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Elder Grown hosts ‘summer camp’

Local band Elder Grown is hosting a slumber party. Billed as “Elder Grown’s Summer Camp,” it’s a camping event without any of the summer camp high jinks you may remember from the 1979 classi...

DATE: Jul 6, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Gasoline Lollipops: ‘Man, serve it up’

It’s a band with a “Denver Sound” thing going on. For the unaware, Denver Sound is a term used to describe now defunct bands like The Denver Gentlemen and Sixteen Horsepower, and more curren...

DATE: Jun 29, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Nordfest to celebrate local musician, teacher

If you know him, you love him. Local musician and Durango School District 9-R teacher Erik Nordstrom is one of those people you gravitate toward, a dude whom you’re glad you met and glad you...

DATE: Jun 22, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Monkberries play Burro Fest

Denton has always been one of the hipper music towns in Texas. Bring up the words “music” and “Texas” in one sentence, and the conversation will likely include “Austin” as the place to be w...

DATE: Jun 15, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Leslie Mendelson digs good songs

It all started with a piano and a killer stereo. Those are the early tools that can start most musicians on their path; something to listen to, and something to attempt to learn how to play ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown