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Intrastate favorites return to The Hank

Colorado bluegrass musicians are a hearty folk. They’re a voluminous bunch who try to live up to a rich history, steeped in the tradition of American music dating back to the 1940...

DATE: Nov 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

From the ‘Prairie’ to the mountains

Radio’s Robin and Linda Williams to return to Durango for concert

DATE: Nov 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

The Sadies offer a midweek treat at the ACT

Dallas Good had no specific genre in mind when he formed The Sadies in the mid-’90s in Toronto. The guitar player had grown up in a musical family, the son of a member of the long...

DATE: Oct 31, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Breuer’s comedy is grown up, not adult

Longtime “Saturday Night Live” fans may recall former cast member Jim Breuer best as the character Goat Boy. The New York-born comedian, whose tenure on the long-running NBC late-...

DATE: Oct 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

A teacher who remembers that music is fun

Toby Tenenbaum is a teacher whose ideals of music education not only involve the standard lessons of practice, history, theory and composition, but also fun. And that may be the most importa...

DATE: Oct 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Sullivan invites his friends for Stillwater benefit

You don’t need to be a household-name musician to be a hit-maker. There are thousands of songwriters in big music cities worldwide who pen the hits for the big-time vocalists. Tal...

DATE: Oct 10, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Gotta have that funk? It’s at Moe’s

Musical movements often are created out of the sheer necessity to fill a gap in a “scene.” If your “scene” has too much of this and not enough of that, you can do two things: sit ...

DATE: Oct 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Town Mountain comes bearing new trophies

I’ve never been one for music award shows. Take the Grammys. The televised Grammys ignore the larger number of Grammys that go to real musicians. And the pop-country crowd seems t...

DATE: Sep 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Hardison remembers the really good times

A little more than 40 years ago, a small music revolution started growing in major cities in Europe and the U.S. The sound and the subsequent fashion of its creators shocked many and was mar...

DATE: Sep 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Lyons’ siren lures Concert Hall supporters

The college experience, including traditional studies with a multifaceted curriculum to the educational activities outside the classroom, should provide a student a real-life experience. ...

DATE: Sep 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Twin bill at Balcony doesn’t miss a Beat

They warned you. When tickets went on sale earlier in the summer for Ska Brewing’s 18th anniversary party with The English Beat, their social media sites recommended you “get tick...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cleaves a good bet for festival dark horse

Stick around Colorado long enough, and you’re bound to take in a festival or two. These weekend-long musical outings offer much: the obvious music, as well as food, little sleep a...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown