Category: Durango

  • Artful Reading, Durango Herald, Aug. 15

    Rachel Slick shows a representation of the “Reading Tree,” a storyteller’s chair for the new library’s Children’s Room. “Reading Tree” was selected as the winning design for the storyteller’s chair after an open house at the Durango Community Recreation Center on Monday. A majestic Aspen “Reading Tree” and a larger-than-life-sized card catalog have been chosen…

  • The maestro and the visionary, Durango Herald, Aug. 5, 2008

    Review Music in the Mountains closed its season at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs on Friday with a concert by the Festival Orchestra titled “Passion and Power” with Aviram Reichert as piano soloist. Change is good. Visionaries turn their creations over to another and watch as the progeny builds upon their ideas, adding their own…

  • BootJack Ranch hosts an Irish evening, Durango Herald, July 18, 2008

    Review Eileen Ivers and Immigrant Soul played a Celtic Celebration on Wednesday at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs. Eileen Ivers plays on the grounds of BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs before her Celtic Celebration concert as part of Music in the Mountains. It was an Irish evening at BootJack Ranch near Pagosa Springs. The rain…

  • A Midsummer Night of Laughter in Pagosa, Durango Herald, July 15, 2008

    Lovers in Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” fall under the spell of Erica Curnutte as Puck in the rear of the picture. They are, left to right, Jessi Hampton (Hermia), Andrew Evans (Lysander), Chris Budreau (Demetrius) and Rachel Morgan (Helena). There is nothing better than a night of theater that transports one from a theater…

  • Larkin returns after the mess, Durango Herald, July 8, 2008

    Note: I’m not crazy about the title the Herald gave this story. My suggestion was Patti Larkin–Independent Troubadour, but I suppose those words are just too long for the column width! Patty Larkin demonstrates one of the many techniques she will use in the Abbey Theatre on Friday. She plays an electric baritone guitar with…

  • Blind singer/songwriter an inspiration, Durango Herald, July 1, 2008

    Sarah Michelle Getto, a blind singer/songwriter who also has a cleft palette, will perform twice in Bayfield over the Fourth of July weekend. Born blind and with a cleft palette, young singer/songwriter Sarah Michelle Getto hasn’t let anything hold her back. A summa cum laude graduate with a degree in music from Southeastern Oklahoma State…

  • Konnichihua: Bar D Wranglers play Japan, Durango Herald, June 6, 2008

    The Bar D Wranglers, from left, Joel Racheff, Levi Mullen, Cy Scarborough, Gary Cook and Matt Palmer at a temple in Kamakura, Japan, after their performance at a cherry blossom festival near Tokyo in April.You can take the cowboy out of the country, but you can’t take the cowboy out of the Bar D Wranglers.…

  • All in the paintings, Durango Herald, June 3, 2008

    Review Rance Hood: Mystic Painter by Rance Hood and James J. Hester, University of New Mexico Press. 176 pages, 71 color plates, 138 color photos, 18 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map, $39.95 hardback. Collectors edition with an original drawing by Hood, signed by the artist and dated March 2008 are available at Rain Dance…

  • Riding into Telluride, Durango Herald, May 16, 2008

    Jon Bailey and Chad Cheeney’s documentary “Mallethead,” from which this photo is taken, will be shown in Telluride’s Mountain Film over Memorial Day weekend. A 60-mile bicycle journey from Durango through New Mexico to Mancos for seven mountain-biking polo players became the basis for a 19-minute film called “Mallethead.” The film debuted last October at…

  • Art in springtime, Durango Herald, May 9, 2008

    Explore Downtown during Durango’s Gallery Walk Jami Tobey will be at the Rain Dance Gallery to talk about her paintings like “Wildflowers,” shown here. Twice a year, Durango galleries get together and host a gallery walk. They invite artists to show up and mingle with guests, chill the Pellegrino and put out a plate of…