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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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Fort Knox Five lands at ACT

Durango remains a second home for Steve Raskin of Fort Knox Five. That second home comes after performing a number of shows locally over the last 20 years, and making friends and hanging wit...

Durango Contra Dance: No need to be a wallflower

Dancing is exercise. You put yourself on a dance floor and surrender your body to the sounds of the band or the D.J. providing the audio motivation for your movement, and unless you’re mimic...

Dana Ariel plays iAM MUSIC

Making it in the music business means surrounding yourself with a good team and a pocketful of good songs. Both surround Dana Ariel. The local musician, a former festival kid reared on fest...

Cold Storage features three bands

Durango’s always had a solid DIY and independent music scene. To my knowledge and time here, that scene goes back to the mid 1990s, when bands like Smut Vendor, Super Bee and The Thirteens ...

Guitar Night is for audience ... and players

Alexandra Whittingham and Sönke Meinen can thank their dear old dads for turning them onto playing guitar. If there’s an instrument laying around the house most kids will naturally pick it ...

An ‘extremely fruitful’ partnership

It’s partnership on making music. But like many, before making music they were fans of music. Both Curtiss O’Rorke Stedman and Jordan Baron had their own individual upbringings loaded with s...

Thirty years of Solas

It’s been seven years since Celtic band Solas has played together. That hiatus came on the heels of nonstop music for the Celtic band, as since forming in New York City, the band has either ...