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Telluride Jazz Festival announces 2025 artist lineup

This year’s musicians include Kamasi Washington, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue and more

DATE: Feb 4, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

When Claude met Shelley: French chamber music to warm a cold January

Series pays tribute to a singular composer

DATE: Jan 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

See you later, 2024: Looking back at a year of arts and entertainment

The countdown is on to the end of 2024, and while one could argue this year had its fair share of drama and uncertainty, what we could count on was news from A&E that validated our belief th...

DATE: Dec 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

KSUT to pause Four Corners Folk Festival in 2025

Increasing costs, decreasing attendance a couple of factors in radio station’s decision

DATE: Dec 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Stephen King’s Maine radio stations will go silent for good on New Year’s Eve

BANGOR, Maine – Stephen King’s raucous rock ’n’ roll radio station is going silent at year’s end. The renowned author and lifelong rocker who used to perform with the Rock Bottom Remainders,...

DATE: Dec 3, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The music of Christmas: Two holiday offerings at Community Concert Hall

Santa Claus will even put in an appearance

DATE: Nov 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Alice Brock, who helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s classic ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ dies at 83

NEW YORK – Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83. Her death, just a we...

DATE: Nov 23, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Unitarian Universalist recital series launches 17th season

Pianist Marilyn Mangold Garst to play solo show

DATE: Nov 20, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Da-Da-Da DUNNN

Violinist joins San Juan Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Beethoven

DATE: Nov 8, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

The Weekender: Album collectors, start your turntables

Four Corners Vinyl record Club hosts show at La Plata County Fairgrounds

DATE: Nov 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Music Review: The Cure return after a long break to look at mortality with one of their best albums

You might think that after being silent for 16 years, The Cure would be in a rush to get things going. Think again. It takes over three minutes of “Alone” – the first song on their new album...

DATE: Oct 30, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

American Authors to play Community Concert Hall

Band playing next week in Durango

DATE: Oct 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

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Snowdown Light Parade can boast another successful yearLights flashed, fire trucks wailed and a foam cannon spewed suds

Bright lights, screaming fire trucks and children bundled up so thoroughly it seemed like an army of Michelin men had taken over downtown Durango. Yep. It’s the much anticipated Snowdown light parade, this year distinguished by a crowd of onlookers peppered with scrabble tiles, Clue characters and playing cards.

Locals flocked to Main Avenue on Friday to get a look (and maybe a Smartie or two) at the floats parading through town on various, creatively decorated vehicles. There were some obvious standouts at this year’s board game-themed parade. After a fire truck’s opening sirens came the Purgatory car, toting a brightly lit ski bum moonlighting as a DJ, likely giving the women of Durango some unpleasant déjà vu. Best dressed had to go to the Colorado Department of Transportation’s bulldozer, wearing the most believable Hungry Hungry Hippos costume seen yet. Biggest crowd pleaser? The dancers boogieing to Chappell Roan’s “HOT TO GO!” while the crowd sang and wiggled along. But what got the biggest rise out of the onlookers was the white plumes of motorcycle exhaust, courtesy of the Harley-Davidson club. The smell of burning octane was a convincing enough reason for people to briefly unclutch the rails and step away from their coveted positions at the front of the fence. Last but not least, another machine spewing its interior into the crowd: a foam cannon, the first one to make an appearance in the history of Snowdown. Much better received than exhaust, it extracted gleeful screams from kids and adults alike. jbowman@durangoherald.com