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L.A.’s ‘best live band’ heads to the Strater stage

“Los Angeles’ best live band” is quite the claim, and it’s not one that should be thrown around loosely. In a city with 3 million people and thousands of bands, “best live band” ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A new addition to Durango’s bluegrass family

Durango’s bluegrass music community continues to be an active and productive bunch. Shows are plentiful, with a growing number of fans and musicians eager to play, listen and pla...

DATE: Nov 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

In a town that loves Halloween, events abound

Durango loves Halloween, sometimes making it a holiday that stretches on for two, three or four nights. Often this is because Halloween falls during the week and venues want to g...

DATE: Oct 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

One last hoorah for local band Baby Toro

After six years, a handful of singles, a full-length record and countless shows at regional venues, art galleries and nontraditional performance spaces, the Montezuma County duo known as Bab...

DATE: Oct 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The only thing in D.C. funnier than Congress

Washington, D.C., just gets funnier and funnier. Not the city itself, but the federal government. Its foibles, faults and blunders are at the least frustrating and the most infur...

DATE: Oct 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Murder and mystery at the Henry Strater

The Durango Heritage Celebration is the next best thing to owning a time machine. As fantastic as that would be, it’s an unrealistic notion played out in fantasy and film that wi...

DATE: Oct 9, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hip-hop hits Durango this weekend

Of the many musical genres that have been created and cultivated in modern pop culture, hip-hop was the one that seemed to have spread quickest, making its way into households and influencin...

DATE: Oct 2, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Celebrating the Old West’s lyrical side

Durango’s Cowboy Poetry Gathering, now in its 26th year, continues to be the local showcase for celebrating the lyrical side of the old West. The idea of becoming a cowboy is a y...

DATE: Sep 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Local music offerings spilleth over

It’s feast or famine for local entertainment options. One weekend music fans, promoters and writers are dying for at least one thing to see, host or peck words about. Other weeke...

DATE: Sep 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Serzen’s influence continues with Jazz on the Hill

Jazz is one of those genres of music that is capable of getting into your blood and consuming your whole being. Music dorks like myself will bounce around from genre to genre. I ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Digging into the past, finding future sounds

Denver remains a city with one of the better music scenes in the country. While surrounding areas like Boulder and into the mountains are fertile jam-band communities, Denver proper has it a...

DATE: Sep 11, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

13 years old, and already a guitar star

When String Cheese Incident keyboardist Kyle Hollingsworth performed in Durango last winter on his annual brew tour, he brought along a fellow Boulder resident and her trio as his supporting...

DATE: Aug 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown