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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

Wranglers celebrate 25 years of Gary Cook

It began June 2, 1969, a month and a half before Apollo 11 and four months before the Amazin’ Mets. That’s when the Bar-D Wranglers took the stage for the first time north of Dura...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Have happy hour in Buckley Park

Zap Mama, Onye & The Messengers bring world beats

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

The ‘Wheel’ keeps Texas swing rolling

Western swing is a music genre that doesn’t account for millions of record sales, yet its contribution to the canon of Americana can’t be denied. It is celebrated by diehard fans ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Chacon is a selective undercard

Since I began writing this column about six years ago, I’ve met loads of musicians and written about most of them. Many I’ve seen, and many I haven’t. As for the ones I haven’t se...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

McCalla Drops in at Studio & with a midweek musical treat

Multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla is a woman who has, in few short years, taken just about every route you can as a professional musician. The Haitian-American who grew up in Ne...

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

New venue is for serious music lovers

Changes in how humans get music is changing how we see music, too. Advances in technology have made it so five musicians in five states can send files to make a record, fans can r...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Nashville duo to make a house call this weekend

East Nashville is starting to make its mark on the world of Americana music. Don’t think “Nashville” and “New Country” and pop music in a cowboy hat cranked out like convenience s...

DATE: Jul 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Latest festival is well worth THE RIDE

Telluride needed another festival, so it made one. KOTO-FM, Telluride’s community radio station, has always hosted music events in the summer; why not add a festival into the mix ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durango Herald editor is getting in on the act

A sure sign of an arts loving community is community theater. The kind of theater where your friends, neighbors or co-workers get cast into random roles, whether they have years o...

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Halfway through the year in music

We’re six months into 2013 and I’ve already exceeded this year’s music budget. Like most music geeks who also are writers, I’m compiling what will be my Top 10 list throughout the...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown