Music - The Durango Herald

Twin bill at Balcony doesn’t miss a Beat

They warned you. When tickets went on sale earlier in the summer for Ska Brewing’s 18th anniversary party with The English Beat, their social media sites recommended you “get tick...

DATE: Sep 5, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Cleaves a good bet for festival dark horse

Stick around Colorado long enough, and you’re bound to take in a festival or two. These weekend-long musical outings offer much: the obvious music, as well as food, little sleep a...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Blues in the night

DATE: Aug 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Album review: Another portrait of Bob Dylan

In the latest entry of his ongoing vault-diving releases, Bob Dylan revisits one of his least-heralded albums. “Self Portrait,” released in 1970, is remembered less today for its music than ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Revving up the music scene

Blues Traveler to christen Aztec track as a prime venue

DATE: Aug 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Wranglers celebrate 25 years of Gary Cook

It began June 2, 1969, a month and a half before Apollo 11 and four months before the Amazin’ Mets. That’s when the Bar-D Wranglers took the stage for the first time north of Dura...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Have happy hour in Buckley Park

Zap Mama, Onye & The Messengers bring world beats

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

Getting its ACT together

Theater ready to reopen after extensive remodel

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

The ‘Wheel’ keeps Texas swing rolling

Western swing is a music genre that doesn’t account for millions of record sales, yet its contribution to the canon of Americana can’t be denied. It is celebrated by diehard fans ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Thom Chacon is a selective undercard

Since I began writing this column about six years ago, I’ve met loads of musicians and written about most of them. Many I’ve seen, and many I haven’t. As for the ones I haven’t se...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

The springs of youth

Final weekend at music festival all light and energy

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music

McCalla Drops in at Studio & with a midweek musical treat

Multi-instrumentalist Leyla McCalla is a woman who has, in few short years, taken just about every route you can as a professional musician. The Haitian-American who grew up in Ne...

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Music