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Stevie Wonder releases new songs

NEW YORK – Stevie Wonder released two new songs Tuesday reflecting the current times that he hopes inspires change. The piano-playing icon dropped the tracks “Where Is Our Love So...

DATE: Oct 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Eddie Van Halen, guitar virtuoso with a shimmering sound, dies at 65

Eddie Van Halen, a guitar virtuoso whose pyrotechnic riffs and solos expanded the vocabulary of hard rock, inspired legions of headbanging imitators and propelled his band Van Halen to four ...

DATE: Oct 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Music in the Mountains announces music lesson scholarships

Applications are now available for the 2021 Music in the Mountains Private Lesson Scholarships for all students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Sponsored by Bank of Colorado,...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Spend a night at the opera: The MET makes it easy online

Will the biggest of all art forms, grand opera, survive the pandemic? Will die-hard Durango fans ever gather again Saturday mornings at Fort Lewis College for The MET Live in HD? ...

DATE: Oct 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts

Fort Lewis College to host a virtual music showcase Sunday

Music to calm a COVID-19 time

DATE: Oct 1, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Country star and hit Elvis songwriter Mac Davis dies at 78

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Country star Mac Davis, who launched his career crafting the Elvis hits “A Little Less Conversation” and “In the Ghetto,” and whose own hits include “Baby Don’t Get Hooked...

DATE: Sep 30, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

‘I Am Woman’ singer Helen Reddy, ’70s hitmaker, dies at 78

LOS ANGELES – Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her rousing feminist anthem “I Am Woman” and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78. Reddy’s childr...

DATE: Sep 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

New frontier for Durango Choral Society

Audience can’t go to singers, so singers will go to audience – virtually

DATE: Sep 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

French media: Raspy-voiced singer Juliette Greco dead at 93

PARIS – Juliette Greco, a French singer, actress, cultural icon and muse to existentialist philosophers of the country’s post-War period, has died, French media said Wednesday. She was 93. ...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Elton John announces new North American dates for final tour

NEW YORK – After postponing several shows because of the coronavirus pandemic, Elton John announced Wednesday that his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” will return to North America on Jan. ...

DATE: Sep 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Oscar-winning composer for ‘Poseidon Adventure’ dies at 83

Al Kasha, who partnered with Joel Hirschhorn to write Oscar-winning songs such as “The Morning After,” a ballad for the disaster epic “The Poseidon Adventure” that became an unexpected pop h...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music

Toots Hibbert, beloved reggae star, dead at 77

NEW YORK – Toots Hibbert, one of reggae’s founders and most beloved stars who gave the music its name and later helped make it an international movement through such classics as “Pressure Dr...

DATE: Sep 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Music