Music - The Durango Herald

A double banjo dialogue

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn pool their skills in duo

DATE: Jan 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Blues-rock group Black Crowes calls it quits after 24 years

NEW YORK – The blues-rock band the Black Crowes are fading to black. Founding member Rich Robinson announced Thursday the group is disbanding after 24 years. In a stat...

DATE: Jan 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

A modernist master's Mozartean face: Rihm writes for Barto's pianos

WASHINGTON – He is one of the most played, most popular and most important composers in Europe. In the United States, that makes him, for some people, scary; for others, irrelevant. ...

DATE: Jan 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Hip-hop for a good cause at benefit concert

No matter where you stand politically or where your opinions on the American military take you, we all can agree how veterans should be treated when their service is up. Every da...

DATE: Jan 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Finger-picking good

Guitar, banjo master Tony Furtado coming to Durango

DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Lineup announced for 2015 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest

NEW ORLEANS – When the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival landed Sir Elton John to perform in May, organizers say they also worked hard to craft an entire day that hits all the right not...

DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Review: Album celebrates music of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’

Various artists, “Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’” (Nonesuch) Fans of the Coen brothers’ amused, affectionate portrait of the 1960s Green...

DATE: Jan 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Little Jimmy Dickens remembered for humor, warmth

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Little Jimmy Dickens was remembered on Thursday for his humor and warmth at a funeral on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, where he performed regularly for decades until sh...

DATE: Jan 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Emmylou Harris back where it all started

Legendary siren to be honored Saturday in D.C.

DATE: Jan 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music

Coming to ACT: Superfly sounds of The Earful

The American film industry owes a lot to funk music. I’m not talking about contributions from James Brown and George Clinton. I’m referring to instrumental bands that have provid...

DATE: Jan 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The amazing Taylor Swift, Jessie J and Pharrell medley made with household items

In Andrew Huang’s new video, the hits just keep coming. As do the household items he uses to perform them. In a mind-blowing medley featuring a half-dozen songs — inclu...

DATE: Jan 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music