Music https://www.the-journal.com/feeds/music/ 2026-05-05 01:03:27 -0700 en-us https://www.the-journal.com/articles/animas-high-school-students-host-under-one-moon-arts-festival/ We’re quickly heading into graduation season, and for four seniors at Animas High School, they’ve got one more big project to complete before putting on their caps and gowns. It’s not a 20-page paper ... 2026-04-16 03:16:02 -0700 54e824f3-7316-4068-8876-3b06604d3d92 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/fort-lewis-college-showcases-student-musicians-at-honors-recital/ The Fort Lewis College Honors Recital, endowed by the late Walter Dear, is back. At 3 p.m. Sunday in Roshong Recital Hall, the Music Department will showcase student performers in a special, free reci... 2026-02-26 05:00:00 -0700 72615118-a9dd-473d-86ec-e8a5fb3abe94 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/new-bluegrass-train-pulling-into-durango/ Since 2011, the Durango Blues Train has been playing its way through the Animas Valley into the San Juan Mountains on warm August nights, courtesy of Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad cars. No... 2026-01-29 02:19:07 -0700 c9f369f3-eea9-40fd-92c9-7378f81c1812 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/quartets-with-friends-host-a-viennese-soiree-at-flc/ Chamber music lovers rejoice. Serendipity has brought a new string quartet to town. Area music lovers already know three of the four quartet players. Two are members of the Fort Lewis College Music De... 2026-01-15 05:00:00 -0700 11ee1f56-5f98-4cb0-8144-23030eebe397 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/telluride-blues-brews-announces-2026-lineup/ In Southwest Colorado, summer’s not over until we say it is – and that includes the annual trek up the hill to the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, scheduled for Sept. 18 to 20 this year. Jon Batiste... 2026-01-14 12:26:59 -0700 38083c29-8aba-4f9c-98b0-96588ac68c49 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/the-hits-keep-coming-for-durango-musician/ El Demonio’s having an amazing year. The musician, who moved to Durango 15 years ago from Southern California, was nominated for an Artist of the Year award in the 11th annual Josie Music Awards at th... 2025-12-11 03:24:26 -0700 6e5aa8d3-3ffb-4da9-8fad-79b4f477122e https://www.the-journal.com/articles/choral-societys-annual-concert-offers-music-santa-and-cheer/ Arrive early and stay late. That’s the word for the annual Durango Choral Society Family Christmas Concert on Sunday. By early, organizers mean around noon to peruse the unusual, one-of-a-kind holiday... 2025-12-03 04:27:56 -0700 cdd6bead-5f85-4371-a9c3-22d79426b4ee https://www.the-journal.com/articles/play-it-forward-southwest-civic-winds-takes-the-stage/ “Lean in.” Last week, Jared Wright interrupted the Southwest Civic Winds as the band rehearsed Percy Grainger’s “Lincolnshire Posy.” “Lean into every crescendo, every decrescendo,” he said. In short –... 2025-11-19 02:29:22 -0700 3e2df576-2839-4098-8498-d1408b59dae0 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/san-juan-symphony-weaves-a-communal-tapestry/ San Juan Symphony Inc. is on a roll. On Oct. 26, the musical juggernaut launched its second program in the Beyond the Concert Hall series in St. Mark’s Church. On Nov. 7 and 8, the Symphony Orchestra,... 2025-10-30 05:00:00 -0700 61cc328b-1f2e-489a-8d49-47dad7c678af https://www.the-journal.com/articles/flc-faculty-showcase-plays-the-colors-of-music/ Flutist Rochelle Mann will add something special to the annual Fort Lewis College Faculty Showcase on Sunday. Professor emerita and former chair of the music department, Mann carries with her the long... 2025-09-25 12:09:01 -0700 2407ae67-fb6f-440c-afcf-79baa370772a https://www.the-journal.com/articles/community-members-pay-tribute-to-kirk-james/ One of the things that makes living here so special is that no matter how much the area expands, we are still a close-knit community that comes together when the going gets tough. A memorial for Kirk ... 2025-09-04 05:54:14 -0700 d1110367-c377-43be-9fce-30e5e787a281 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/two-la-plata-county-music-organizations-join-forces/ Two longtime nonprofits providing music education in La Plata County are combining forces. Durango-based Stillwater Music, which specializes in pop music, private lessons, accessible classes for disab... 2025-07-31 02:04:41 -0700 a60d0f89-7f94-4c12-98ed-66f42f535ce1 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/traveling-players-open-music-in-the-mountains-39th-season/ Three caravans of traveling musicians will trundle through the Four Corners next week to herald the 39th annual Music in the Mountains summer festival. The Road Show, as it has come to be known, funct... 2025-07-02 02:07:31 -0700 56e33a8f-feb0-4eef-8f0e-37ddd17fb38b https://www.the-journal.com/articles/san-juan-symphony-presents-sues-musical-adventure/ The upcoming San Juan Symphony Family Concert has to be the best musical buy in town. For $5 you get to hear a full symphony orchestra play a storytelling work that spans millennia. “Tyrannosaurus Sue... 2025-05-14 01:32:07 -0700 85c0fa9f-0809-463d-8ab2-7824040624e1 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/for-san-juan-symphony-passion-meets-precision/ The free talks Thomas Heuser delivers a few days before San Juan Symphony concerts are the best deal in town. Called “Musically Speaking,” his lively presentations are peppered with telling anecdotes,... 2025-03-27 06:00:00 -0700 a2d3a7e5-29b7-4cfc-99c2-3119a7dcdd9f https://www.the-journal.com/articles/durango-celtic-festival-takes-over-concert-hall/ The Durango Celtic Festival is celebrating its 11th season March 28 and 29, offering up a weekend full of music and workshops. "If COVID hadn’t swept through, we would have been on our 14th season, I ... 2025-03-20 02:19:00 -0700 ecc6e39f-44a7-4be2-9f41-81b4485fb183 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/bar-d-wranglers-looking-for-new-member/ It’s not often news like this comes across the A&E desk: Musicians, this one’s for you – legendary cowboy/Western band the Bar D Wranglers are seeking a new bandmate, and you have a few weeks to prepa... 2025-03-06 02:50:20 -0700 3c831066-46fc-4a9e-a6ae-e6183558c8e8 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/review-new-wine-in-old-bottles/ Last weekend, Durango audiences were invited to two sparkling performances, hence the title: new wine in old bottles. San Juan Symphony presented its third concert of the 39th season in Durango and Fa... 2025-02-27 11:00:00 -0700 a898c114-abbd-4760-b2c5-94a7311ff728 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/telluride-jazz-festival-announces-2025-artist-lineup/ It may feel like summer is a long way off, but it will be here before you know it. A sign that we’re headed in the right direction is that the 48th Telluride Jazz Festival on Tuesday announced its art... 2025-02-04 11:56:18 -0700 c5bc6bc4-7a76-450c-8d3d-a1364ac70e34 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/ksut-to-pause-four-corners-folk-festival-in-2025/ KSUT Public Radio Executive Director Tami Graham announced Friday that the station will pause the annual Four Corners Folk Festival in 2025, citing a series of factors that have sprung up since the ra... 2024-12-20 05:47:30 -0700 f6528ad6-4c97-4a6e-ba77-f32e42db70fc https://www.the-journal.com/articles/music-in-the-mountains-from-star-wars-to-shostakovich/ Sandwiched between two classical concerts, the final Pops Concert of Music in the Mountains 2024, will unfurl Saturday at Sky Ute Event Center. Promoted as an “intergalactic musical showdown,” the con... 2024-07-31 04:32:59 -0700 76e8e694-eb89-4830-ae28-1cb564cbca57 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/the-young-and-the-restless-at-music-in-the-mountains/ Among the many surprises in the 38th Music in the Mountains Festival, is the quiet way new music and new musicians slip into fairly conventional programming. Take “Vitality,” the shimmering opener at ... 2024-07-25 10:00:00 -0700 f8f74563-11e7-4cbc-b1bc-339126ec0f30 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/a-shining-mothers-day-courtesy-of-san-juan-symphony-chamber-singers/ A shimmering new work, “Sunrise Mass,” by Norwegian American composer Ola Gjeilo (yay-lo) will be the centerpiece of the San Juan Symphony Chamber Singers concert on Sunday at St. Mark’s Episcopal Chu... 2024-05-09 12:13:00 -0700 521ec866-73ac-461f-82c8-00840a565f97 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/steel-pulse-headlining-reggae-fest-at-tico-time/ “The people,” said David Elecciri Jr. with iconic reggae band Steel Pulse, when asked why the band is playing one of the smallest venues of their current tour at Tico Time River Resort, just south of ... 2024-05-09 09:27:34 -0700 a35ae3e3-7c90-4f91-827a-98bec3d14970 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/telluride-blues-brews-announces-lineup/ Tickets for the 30th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival will go on sale at 10 a.m. March 13. The festival returns with a dynamic, well-rounded mix of live blues, funk, indie, rock, jam band, gosp... 2024-03-06 05:08:57 -0700 b9992d62-bedd-4e9b-b0e7-ae0b7ed2d8a4 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/47th-telluride-jazz-festival-announces-lineup/ While it feels like summer’s never going to get here, a little bright note: The Telluride Jazz Festival has just released its 2024 lineup. The festival will be held Aug. 9 to 11 in Telluride, and tick... 2024-01-24 11:56:40 -0700 754b2383-08aa-4599-9d7e-78057c587579 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/san-juan-symphony-launches-38th-season/ A flurry of events will mark the opening of the San Juan Symphony Orchestra’s 38th season this weekend. Music Director Thomas Heuser has expanded the standard yearly four-concert schedule by offering ... 2023-09-27 01:05:54 -0700 2d836375-8f58-4d20-b84a-ff72f5b6b400 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/high-mountain-music-guitarist-for-michael-martin-murphey-performing-at-durango-cowboy-poetry-gather/ Carin Mari is bringing some high-country music – and perhaps even a yodel or two – to the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering this weekend. A gifted singer and guitar player from Buena Vista, this is her ... 2022-09-29 06:10:42 -0700 feb258c7-6198-494e-9562-fa8ca11022b7 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/bayfields-lori-cole-releases-single-shipwreck/ If you’ve ever heard the commercial jingles for McDonald’s, La Choy, United Airlines, KFC, Juicy Fruit Gum and The Incredible Edible Egg, then chances are you’re already familiar with Lori Cole. Cole,... 2022-05-21 12:09:42 -0700 271cd6b4-02d1-4aeb-98cc-434c143ead13 https://www.the-journal.com/articles/durango-cowboy-poetry-gathering-back-in-the-saddle/ If you see a lot of cowboy hats and horses roaming the streets of Durango next weekend, it’s because the annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be back in full swing. Starting Thursday, the Gathe... 2021-09-23 06:07:00 -0700 fa3d4a16-def8-4e47-8822-dfc9f6adf496