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Email: Liggett_b@fortlewis.edu
A Ranky Tanky concert provides two outcomes. One being what you’d expect from a concert: You dance, you’re entertained, you leave the venue musically satisfied. The other outcome appeals to music...
DATE: April 18, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part column highlighting the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown and its overall contribution to the community. Guitar player Larry Keel is a perfect performer for...
DATE: April 11, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part column highlighting the Durango Bluegrass Meltdown and its overall contribution to the community. People have big opinions about bluegrass music. “I...
DATE: April 4, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Las Cruces, New Mexico, may sound like an unlikely place for a ska music scene, but it’s been home to at least two ska bands that have properly represented the music. One band is directly...
DATE: April 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Hanging out with Adam Swanson is the closest you’ll ever come to time travel. The local musician, who has been a regular performer of ragtime music in the Diamond Belle Saloon most of his life, is...
DATE: March 21, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
KDUR Cover Nights have grown into a fire-breathing monster of an event that equally entertains and angers. Entertains because the events (full disclosure: I’ve organized these things for years and...
DATE: March 14, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Durango is on the rise as a player in the international Celtic community. Despite being about 4,600 miles from Ireland and Scotland, the efforts of the Durango Celtic Society and the Durango...
DATE: March 7, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Rock band Lawn Chair Kings have been a vital part of the Durango music scene now for close to 20 years. Their sound has remained appealing to anyone who may carry a niche interest in music that...
DATE: Feb. 28, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Musicians get bitten by the bug. That bug being one particular genre or style that soon takes over, and from that point forward your musical trajectory goes in the direction of whatever genre that...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Editor’s note: KDUR Station Manager Bryant Liggett’s “Downtown Lowdown” music column returns to The Durango Herald. It will run on Fridays in the Arts & Entertainment section. Live around Durango...
DATE: Feb. 14, 2019 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
John Denver was a hard musician to classify. He was a singer-songwriter who existed outside of the folk crowd, and a country musician void of the Nashville scene. Best known for penning “Rocky...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2016 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Greg Schochet’s exploration of the guitar continues to be a life-long pursuit. It’s a quest to enhance and expand his ability to understand and play the many styles that make up what is now called...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
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