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Position: Arts & Entertainment Editor
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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
