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Bluegrass festival to be focus of documentary

The 2014 Durango Bluegrass Meltdown, which wrapped up Sunday, included a series of cameras and personnel filming on stage, the Strater lobby and behind the scenes at all of the venues. ...

DATE: Apr 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

It’s been 20 years of pickin’ and grinnin’

This weekend, the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown will celebrate 20 years of giving perhaps the most “traditional bluegrass” festival in the state. You won’t find a drum set in any of ...

DATE: Apr 10, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Moe’s pulls big for the little, local bands

Aspiring bands always need a place to play. I back the efforts of promoters regularly, in addition to the players that put themselves out there to showcase their musical talent. ...

DATE: Apr 3, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durangoans have chance to hear blues at local favorite, downtown, outdoor venue

Durango hasn’t seen much of a winter. My snow shovel was used twice, and the mountain bike gear never got put away. Spring has been just around the corner since November, and one ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

String Cheese vet Hollingsworth has a backup plan

If the fragile music industry ever sours, leaving musicians, writers and bloggers, roadies and sound guys out of work, musicians like Kyle Hollingsworth will be able to fall back on other tr...

DATE: Mar 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Ragtime & Early Jazz Festival is right at home at the Strater

For the second week in a row, this column will acknowledge the importance of American jazz music. With such a rich and colorful history, enjoying jazz and studying its early contr...

DATE: Mar 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Stillwater, college bands join jazz experiment

The American art form that is jazz music remains as addictive to its fans and those who play it as the junk shot into the arms of some of its forefathers. If ever there was a genr...

DATE: Mar 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Badly Bent is back together – is it for good?

Durango’s had plenty of bluegrass bands, but the one that has left the biggest mark on the town’s music scene so far was The Badly Bent. Formed in 1998, the band rose to prominenc...

DATE: Feb 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Dorm bands get stage time at Skyfest

Fort Lewis College indeed does have talent. Like college campuses nationwide, the student body is made up not only of eager students forging ahead toward careers and lofty life go...

DATE: Feb 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

‘Power duo’ El Ten Eleven is not

Californians to play Tuesday at the ACT

DATE: Feb 17, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music

Watch this Austin folkie perform around Durango – four times

A setting that inspires is better than a setting that entertains any day. Austin, Texas, is a city that can entertain with its countless numbers of bands and venues whose calendar...

DATE: Feb 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

David Testroet has a winning formula for comedy success

Like that of a musician, a comedian’s life can be a tough gig. If you don’t have the luxury of writing for a sitcom or a television talk show, you’re out on tour. Fans...

DATE: Feb 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown