Group Shower driven by music
Band will play Saturday at Nordfest III
DATE: Jun 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Durango Barbershoppers perform annual show
They’re the longest running music and arts organization in Durango. Rolling through their 57th year, the Durango Barbershoppers, also known as The Durango Narrow Gauge Chorus, have been maki...
DATE: Jun 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
All aboard the Blues Train with Brody Buster
A train car on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge line is the perfect size for a performing one-man band tucked into either end of the car. Roughly about 102 inches or 8.5 feet wide, a sin...
DATE: May 28, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Mojo Birds’ music a mix of genres
The genre that is “Afro-Peruvian-Mojo” is not household term when it comes to music terms. It does, however, remain an apt descriptor for local band Mojo Birds. Part indie-pop and soul band,...
DATE: May 21, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Celebrating 20 years of The Infamous Stringdusters
Happy 20th birthday to the Grammy-winning progressive bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. And a way to do up 20 years as a band is to play a festival with a load of your festival and ...
DATE: May 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Seun Kuti: A lifelong musician
Some kids bond with their parents through sport, or perhaps a hobby. Seun Kuti bonded with his dad through music. Not just listening to certain bands, or collecting records, but playing and ...
DATE: May 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Robin Davis Duo drops new record
Robin and Jimi Davis make music that sounds like it’s a hundred years old. It’s not. While Robin could likely sit in with anybody’s roots or rock band, he specializes in acoustic music. It’s...
DATE: Apr 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
YOPE plays iAM Music Fest
Local band YOPE is a band on the rise and the move. Since forming over a year ago, they’ve been hitting it hard, playing local venues, digging into obscure tunes to cover and collectively wr...
DATE: Apr 23, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Congrats to Sam Kelly
Sam Kelly’s talent and stage presence helped him land his latest full-time gig. The Dolores raised saxophone player cut his teeth locally, playing in bands Elder Grown and Pants Party (among...
DATE: Apr 16, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass return to the Meltdown
Nobody had a better time at the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown in 2005 than performers Danny Paisley and his band The Southern Grass. When not playing their scheduled sets or jamming around the ...
DATE: Apr 9, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival takes stage
Danny Coots and Adam Swanson became friends over a shared love of ragtime and early jazz music, that friendship coming decades after ragtime and early jazz were “new” styles of music. Coots ...
DATE: Apr 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
Celtic music speaks to history, entertains
The history is as important as the music, and the music is as important as the history. That history being of Western Europe, in particular Scotland and Ireland, a history that at times is c...
DATE: Mar 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown
