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See them perform together, and you’d think the members of all-female folk trio The Wailin’ Jennys were put on Earth for the express purpose of combining their voices in song. Alto, mezzo and...
DATE: March 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
Revered mandolin player Mike Marshall was gigging with the great David Grisman and a young banjo player named Bela Fleck back in the early ’80s when he first heard about Edgar Meyer, a college kid...
DATE: March 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
Jamgrass pioneers Leftover Salmon first melded strings, bouncing melodies and wild stage energy a quarter century ago when founders Vince Herman, Drew Emmitt and Mark Vann merged their respective...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
Hotly disputed public art, distinct architectural styles and modern conceptual works. Sounds like any given year in Durango. It also describes a few of the building blocks of art history that will...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
He was a desert anarchist in a Cadillac convertible, an eloquent curmudgeon, practicing monkey wrencher, self-described “earthiest,” government lambaster, contradictory detractor and a bit of a...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
Husband and wife Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are both banjo-music greats in their own right. Fleck is the innovator, experimenter, the rock star and the technical master whose name is...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music
Tony Furtado is no newbie to the recording game. With 16 albums to his name, the musician – who is known for his jaw-dropping, finger-picking stylings on both the slide guitar and banjo – has been...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Music
A couple of generations back, quilting was a utilitarian pastime. Quilters patched together and stuffed fabric to warm their children, cover their beds and insulate their windows – but not as an...
DATE: Jan. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Visual Arts
Durango artist Chandler Wigton has long nurtured a healthy obsession of two seemingly incongruous pursuits: making art and exploring the world of quantum physics. So, when he happened across the...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
As the unofficial house band at the Shakedown Bar in Vail, rock trio Brothers Keeper have a long-running tradition of inviting guest musicians to sit in for some jamming. It was through that...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music
The Telluride Bluegrass Festival has released the initial lineup for its 2015 festival, which will take place on June 18-21 in Telluride Town Park and various venues around town. The lineup...
DATE: Dec. 23, 2014 | CATEGORY: Music
Inspired by the crafting of the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act last year, Durango resident Daniel Hinds decided he wanted to paint a series of watercolors depicting the local watershed in...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts & Entertainment
Thousands of tons of rock, mud and trees came down crossing East Animas Road (County Road 250) as a result of snowmelt at the rockfall area on Missionary Ridge north of Durango. The mudslide is up to 10 feet deep in the 2700 block of East Animas Road, which has been closed since Friday.
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