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

Desiderata: It all started at FLC

Room 220 in Escalante Dormitory at Fort Lewis College used to moonlight as a jam room. It was 2019, the year Connor “Minky” Klimenko and Hamo Thorneycroft met and started jamming in their ti...

DATE: Oct 9, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Backstage Series features Thom Chacon, Bobby Marquez

Bobby Marquez’s music career started with a Martin guitar pulled from a trash can. The singer-songwriter, whose croon-heavy, country sound has led to him working with producer Jerry Crutchfi...

DATE: Oct 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Chris Ross Quintet honors jazz

Mesa Verde Farm and Studio has found a house musician and bandleader in Chris Ross. The at times artist getaway and creative space, other times concert venue, tucked away in Montezuma County...

DATE: Sep 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Wiebeck and Leavitt play Durango

It all started with the bass for Tracy Wiebeck. The local musician, who moved to Durango in April 2021, grew up an Air Force brat, moving around in his youth so much that he’s kept moving as...

DATE: Sep 18, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Country rock with Bo DePeña

He grew up by the Rio Grande, and now he sometimes plays music by the Rio Grande. Where he grew up, and where he plays music by that river are hundreds of miles apart. That’s the story for B...

DATE: Sep 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown