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Local musician Terry Rickard is kind of like Durango’s jukebox. If you’ve bellied up to the bar in any Durango watering holes over the last 25 years, you’ve likely seen Rickard with his acoustic...
DATE: April 15, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
One-time local mandolin player Patty Storen still keeps a foot in Durango’s rich acoustic music scene. A founding member of local jam-grass band Liver Down the River, Storen has recently moved to...
DATE: April 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Local musician Dana Ariel grew up a festival kid. Carted up to Reservoir Hill in Pagosa Springs by her parents for the bluegrass, roots and folk festivals that bookend the summer, the festival...
DATE: March 25, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The songwriting muse can hit at any time. Perhaps it hits when you’re staring at the ceiling at 3 a.m. as you worry about how you’re going to pay for your kid’s college tuition. Maybe it hits when...
DATE: March 18, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The Misfits were a classic early 1980s hardcore-punk band. The small but rabid punk scenes in cities like Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles all showed this band some love, while...
DATE: March 11, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
If you’re a Durango local, it’s likely you’ve met Carol Clark. Maybe you met her in the early days of Durango Farmers Market, the now Saturday morning summer staple she started 20 years ago as a...
DATE: March 4, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
The ukulele is not a novelty instrument. The late Tiny Tim may have thought otherwise, using the ukulele as the musical vehicle to back his falsetto singing, and it may be an instrument you buy a...
DATE: Feb. 25, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Local musician Larry Carver will tell you that guitar players love their guitars. That includes Carver. He loves his 2016 Gibson Les Paul. He loves his 2004 Fender Stratocaster. He even loves his...
DATE: Feb. 18, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Not many musicians can say they got into a certain style of music because their mom snuck them into a concert. But its how mandolin player Gabriel Marowitz was turned onto bluegrass, after his...
DATE: Feb. 11, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Country music has come a long way. Some may say too long of a way, as the country music of modern country radio and country music awards shows doesn’t reflect the country music that began with Hank...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Local roots trio Stillhouse Junkies’ winter concert series has been a great catalyst for landing musicians right into your living room. If there is one benefit to the virtual concert series, it’s...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
Call local musician Adam Swanson a musical anthropologist. The ragtime pianist is a summertime staple in the Diamond Belle Saloon, with summer 2021 being his 15th year of playing the venue, which...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2021 | COLUMN: Downtown Lowdown
