KSUT is very pleased to bring Mountain Stage back to the Four Corners, after a hiatus of several years. It’s a two-hour weekly exploration of the exciting and spontaneous world of live performance, offering very cool contemporary music, seasoned with trad
itional and roots musicians, all captured in front of a live audience.
The longest running radio program of its kind, Mountain Stage continues to honor tradition and embrace innovation with the diverse cast of performers it showcases each week. Plus, it’s great to have some music back on KSUT on Sunday afternoon. We’ll begin broadcasting it April 4 from noon-2 PM. That day’s lineup includes Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing, Jorma Kaukonen and David Bromberg, Among the Oak and Ash and more.
The Capitol Coverage Project is an effort of Rocky Mountain Community Radio, a group of non-commercial public and community radio stations mainly in Colorado, with stations in Utah and New Mexico.
The project provides daily news reports from sessions of the Colorado State Legislature to all participating stations.
Decisions made by our elected state representatives and senators impact every resident of Colorado. The Capitol Coverage Project seeks to inform and engage radio listeners in this decision-making process.
Now on KSUT Monday through Friday at 11 AM (when available).
The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.
In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom (“Don’t quit your day job!”), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.
In preparation for the Capitol Steps upcoming April Fools Edition of “Politics Takes a Holiday,” we present a new standardized test.
Five ways to determine if you are an April fool:
1. You underestimated the American automobile consumer’s preference for a car that can actually stop.
2. If at any point in your life, you have ever attempted to light your underwear on fire, on or off an airplane.
3. You tuned into “The 700 Club” seeking Pat Robertson’s kind words for the victims of Haiti’s earthquake.
4. You thought Sarah Palin would go to any other network but Fox News.
5. You thought a health care bill would be done by now. (and you’re right!)
You might not think you’re an April Fool, but you probably never thought a male centerfold from Cosmopolitan Magazine would ever become a Senator either. Tune into this half hour special on KSUT Thursday at 3:30 PM. After all, the only way to make sense of this mess is to…find out what rhymes with it.
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In support of their ninth album, entitled “God’s Favorite Band”, the Asylum Street Spankers present an all new two part concert: a heavenly set of rousing gospel music followed by a set of songs about the joys of sinning! The Austin-based band will perform at The Hank in Durango Saturday night (3/27). Get tix on line or at the box office at the Henry Strater Theatre.
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The Infamous Stringdusters perform Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Concert Hall. Local bluegrass band Lonesome Stew opens the show.
While critics have often declared The Infamous Stringdusters as newgrass torchbearers, the band is actually a broad melting pot of American music. The backgrounds of band members range from training in classical and jazz, to hard rock, to stints backing country legends and high lonesome heroes.
Based in Nashville, Tenn., the band consists of six professional players - Andy Falco (guitar), Andy Hall (dobro), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle), Jesse Cobb (mandolin) and former Durango local Travis Book (upright bass). All are steeped in the tradition of bluegrass vocal harmony as well as the progressive edge of instrumental music.
The progressive sextet has toured steadily since formation, focused on what makes the band unique: the musical integration of six individual musicians into one visionary sound.
“The more we play, the more everyone’s deep musical influences become a part of the whole band,” noted bassist Book. “With this group, the well runs deep, and when this band is at its best we’re developing a new sub-genre of acoustic music. We definitely have a communal thing going on and the music is falling in line with that.”
Hear the music and view videos of the band performing live at http://www.thestringdusters.com/video.
Lonesome Stew, a collection of five of Durango’s top bluegrass pickers, opens the show and brings together past and present members of popular bands including the Badly Bent and Rock & Rye. Lonesome Stew features Robin Davis and David Smith (guitar and vocals), Pat Dressen (mandolin and vocals), Jimmy Largent (bass) and Hap Purcell (banjo).
Get your tix at the box office or durangoconcerts.com.
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American guitarist Walter Strauss joins Malian kamal’ngoni master Mamadou Sidibe in a musical interplay of finger-style guitar and West African hunter’s harp Thursday evening (3/25) at the Millwood Junction in Mancos.
Tickets available at Southwest Sound and the Millwood.
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Fiery, poignant and soulful singer Richie Havens returns to Durango and the stage at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College on Sunday, March 14, for a 7 p.m. show.
Havens, one of the most recognizable voices in popular music, has remained unique and ageless since he first emerged from the Greenwich Village folk scene in the early 1960s and electrified audiences at Woodstock.
Havens uses his music to convey messages of brotherhood and personal freedom, once having told The Denver Post, “I really sing songs that move me. I’m not in show business, I’m in the communications business.” He continues to view his calling as a higher one.
Tickets available at durangoconcerts.com.
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Sarah Siskind and Travis Book will be performing at the Henry Strater Theater in Durango on Tuesday, March 9th. Sarah is an acclaimed songwriter, winning fans over like Bonnie Raitt who played her music on LA radio and indie rockers Bon Iver who invited Sarah to open for them for a European tour in 2008. Sarah released her album Say It Louder in May of last year and through its notoriety won Americana Album of the Year in the Nashville Music Awards.
Travis, a former Durango local who has performed on KSUT more times than we can count (and Sarah’s husband), tours nationally with bluegrass supergroup The Infamous Stringdusters. Following this tour, he’ll return to the road with the ‘dusters as Sarah heads to Europe to tour Ireland and the UK with Paul Brady. The duo had a successful tour to Colorado at summer’s end last year, leading up to their appearance at the Four Corners Folk Festival.
Tickets available at henrystratertheatre.com.
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Burlefest, a benefit to help with medical bills for Benny “Burle” Galloway is happening Monday, March 8th at the Smiley Building Auditorium, in Durango, from 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. The night will feature a silent auction as well as performances by Waiting on Trial, Lonesome Stew, The Scrugglers and the Burlegrass All-stars featuring well known musicians from out-of-town who have recorded Benny “Burle” Galloway’s music over the years.
Burle has written songs that have been recorded by some big name modern-day bluegrass bands such as The Drew Emmitt Band, Infamous Stringdusters and Yonder Mountain String Band.
Burle fell while doing snow removal in February and severely broke his foot. Being the working musician that he is, he doesn’t have any medical insurance and bills are piling up.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door and are available at Animas Trading Company and Canyon Music.
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The Fifth Annual Durango Independent Film Festival (DIFF), kicks off today and runs through Sunday, with nearly 100 films to choose from. For a complete schedule of films, panels, workshops and parties, check out their website: durangofilm.org, or call 970-375-7779. Festival passes are available at Magpies Newsstand Café, 707 Main Ave., Durango.
Featuring the traditional opening Free Movie Night, Weds, March 3:
Gaslight Theatres 1 & 2, Durango
6 pm Two Spirits | Documentary
Screens with The Sierra and Letter Home
6 pm Adventure/Sports Program
My Canyonlands: The Adventurous Life
of Kent Frost
First Ascent: Alone on the Wall
The Edge of Telluride
9 pm Love Hurts | Feature
Screens with Head in the Sand
9 pm Breakin’ the Law! Shorts Program
Nice Shootin’ Cowboy
I Principi di Marte (The Princes of Mars)
Scissu
True Beauty This Night
Beholden
Land Gewinnen (Gaining Ground)
