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The Motet returns to Durango

Sarah Clarke has always been singing. That hobby of singing since she was a kid turned into a profession, something that helped her hit the ground running when she joined Colorado-based funk...

DATE: Jan 8, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Safety Meeting opens for Kyle Hollingsworth

They’re a harmony heavy band. While there are loads of Durango-based bands that are thick with vocal harmonies, which includes bluegrass bands to the barbershoppers, for Safety Meeting, a lo...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cody Tinnin fronts Weminuche

Cody Tinnin’s new musical role finds him at the front and center of the stage. In the past, the former bass player for local bluegrass band Stillhouse Junkies found himself in that position ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Records of 2024: Part 2

Please allow me to repeat myself, as I’ve said this before: If you are one of those people who claims no good music has been made since (insert year of your liking here) then you just aren’t...

DATE: Dec 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Records of 2024: Part 1

One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor. Therefore, my claims that this list of records that dropped in 2024 is better than anything else are certainly worthy of a healthy debate. Yes...

DATE: Dec 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Night 1 Magic Weens, Night 2 Magic Beans

It’s been three months since the band Ween announced their indefinite touring hiatus. A bummer for fans of the New Hope, Pennsylvania-based rock band, whose sounds wander from hard-rock to p...

DATE: Dec 4, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Armchair Boogie brings a little Wisconsin newgrass

Hang around Durango long enough and you’ll likely meet someone who has moved here from Wisconsin. People move to Durango from all over the country for the obvious reasons – which is anything...

DATE: Nov 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Brendan Shafer Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

Like it or not, Durango has an active bluegrass-music scene. Live with it. While its popularity may bum some of the genre’s naysayers out, it’s arguably not any more fertile than the towns p...

DATE: Nov 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

20 years of Carute Roma

“Woodshedding” is a word in the music realm synonymous with “practice.” While someone with a banjo “practicing” for the first time may produce a sound pleasing to that someone, it’s likely n...

DATE: Nov 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The Waco Brothers help celebrate KDUR

Thirty years back, Chicago-based musicians Dean Schlabowske and Jon Langford didn’t know much about country music. They knew about rock ’n’ roll and its many offshoots in the form of “indie”...

DATE: Nov 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Two nights with the Stillhouse Junkies

Touring musicians need to be more than just good players. In the case of a band that’s on the road much of the year, they need to be both solid co-workers, and road trip partners. Your typic...

DATE: Oct 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Blessing Chimanga values connection

Blessing Chimanga wanted to set himself apart. The South African musician, born in Zimbabwe and currently working at Kutandara Studio in Boulder, wanted to find a unique way he’d be identifi...

DATE: Oct 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown