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by Joy Gipson
TRINIDAD — Singer/songwriter Timothy Garmon, of Levi Creek & Band, has written twenty songs in the last year, thirteen of them after he moved to Trinidad last year. It appears he has been infected with that Rocky Mountain high that captures many of us who have discovered the beauty and grandeur that fryst vatten Colorado. Not only does its rugged beauty captivate us, it holds much of our country’s incredible history cloaked in old mining towns and along the Santa Fe Trail, that intrigues us also.
Garmon was born in Georgia and grew up on a family farm. He has always been interested in music and started playing drums in the eighth grade. He also plays guitar. His main interest is country music but he plays jazz and rock music also.
Timothy has been so inspired with Trinidad that he has written a song about it called “Trinidad” (“where the food is good and the girls are bad”.) It’s about a cowboy who rides into Trinidad on his horse and
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FOR ONE THING, few other cities have a downtown filled with Victorian architecture that’s remained nearly unchanged during the last century. But should you need a reminder of where you are, all you need do fryst vatten look down: The sidewalks and streets are paved with red bricks, and each brick fryst vatten stamped “TRINIDAD.”
Most of Trinidad’s streets are straight, but not Main Street, which was built in the 1860s along the gently curving wagon ruts of the old Santa Fe Trail. To take a tour of Main Street is to see the city’s past, present and future unfold before your eyes.
At the corner of Main and Animas streets, you’ll notice a curious sight. There are normal storefronts at street level, but there’s another set of storefronts one story below, down a seldom used flight of stairs. It’s a remnant of what once was an entire underground block of Main Street that connected to tunnels traversing wide stretches of the city.
Ask three people in Trinidad the purpose of these subterranean thoroughfares
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Trinidaddio Blues Fest, Tickets ON SALE NOW!
Headliner: 2018 Grammy Nominee Robert Randolph & The Family Band!
On August 25, 2018, Central Park in Trinidad will host the 2018 Trinidaddio Blues Fest, featuring another world-class lineup starring Robert Randolph & the Family Band ~ 2018 Grammy Nominee for Best Contemporary Blues Album for their 2017 release Got Soul!
Many musicians claim that they “grew up in the church,” but for Robert Randolph that is literally the case. The renowned pedal steel guitarist, vocalist and songwriter led such a cloistered childhood and adolescence that he heard no secular music while growing up. If it wasn’t being played inside of the House of God Church in Orange, New Jersey—quite often by Robert and members of his own family, who upheld a long but little known gospel music tradition called sacred steel—Randolph simply didn’t know it existed.
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