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Salt Lake City bluegrass comes to Durango

Many bluegrass bands are born from a bluegrass pick. It’s a story this column has referenced in the past: the “pick” being an informal collection of musicians playing an even less formal con...

DATE: Jun 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Taylor Neal, a DIY musician

Music is important. That’s a general statement that many could and would agree with, but for people like Taylor Neal, it’s a belief that resonates down to their core. Yes, it’s something tha...

DATE: May 29, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Sadies return to Durango

Canadian surf and garage rock, cosmic-country and punk band The Sadies made their Durango concert debut on Nov. 5, 2013. That night, music lovers of Durango were treated to a solid blast of ...

DATE: May 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

100 Year Flood to rock Gazpacho

Local musicians Dyllon Drake and Dugan Frase are stuck with each other. That’s OK with them. Guitar player Drake and drummer Frase met a decade ago, when both were playing in the band Revere...

DATE: May 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Paying tribute to Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash is for everybody. An early country star who along with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis put Sam Phillips and Sun Records out of Memphis on the musical map, Cash gr...

DATE: May 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Jazz orchestra celebrates art form

The world of music lovers can thank America for jazz. Sure, the U-S of A has kicked down a load of recognizable genres, but arguably the one genre that spread quickly around the world is jaz...

DATE: May 1, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Zimbira takes stage at iAM Music fest

Zimbira is a band born from musical education. Do you want to learn how to drive? Get behind the wheel of a car. Want to learn how to play a particular style of music? Form a group that spec...

DATE: Apr 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Seth Mulder & Midnight Run taking stage at Bluegrass Meltdown

North Dakota isn’t really a state known for its bluegrass music. While there are pockets of the genre just about everywhere throughout the country, bluegrass remains tied with the southern s...

DATE: Apr 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Ragwater to hold record-release concert

It was a little more than two decades ago when Pagosa Springs-based musicians Chris Rapp and Chris Haas began their musical partnership. Vocalist Haas had asked guitar player Rapp about play...

DATE: Apr 10, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Acid Wrench: ‘We just love playing live’

It began with a drum set. Local attorney Justin Bogan has always been a fan of the punk-rock, digging on classic hardcore bands from labels like SST out of Los Angeles, Sub-Pop out of Seattl...

DATE: Apr 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Durango Celtic Festival draws international musicians

Ask a few select Celtic musicians if they would travel 4,500 miles from home to play a concert in Durango, and their answer is a solid “yes.” One such musician is Paddy Callaghan, a button a...

DATE: Mar 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Horseshirt born from friendship

People often become friends because of music. Sometimes that friendship blossoms into a band. Perhaps you’re an employee in the home service business, and you’re out on a call to fix a refri...

DATE: Mar 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown