{"id":117174,"date":"2014-10-15T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/baby-toro-bids-adieu-2\/"},"modified":"2014-10-15T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:30:00","slug":"baby-toro-bids-adieu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/baby-toro-bids-adieu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Toro bids adieu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Baby Toro, the well-loved musical duo of Hardison Collins and Lindsay Isbell, will perform a farewell show at Sideshow Emporium in Dolores on Oct. 25.<\/span>Courtesy of Reneata Collins<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A farewell concert and art show for Hardison Collins and his band Baby Toro will take place at Sideshow Art Emporium in Dolores on Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Collins owns the Beehive in Mancos, a popular arts and crafts boutique and salon that also offers facials and reflexology services from Collin\u2019s wife, Reneata.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the Collins family is moving on to Petersburg, Fla.<\/p>\n

In their 10 years here, the two have improved community health and opened up an artistic and musical scene.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts a difficult thing to move,\u201d Collins said. \u201cMancos is like living in a postcard, it is so beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collins is \u201cbummed\u201d to give up his band Baby Toro, which he co-created with local musician Lindsay Isbell.<\/p>\n

The two perform a unique brand of melancholy music that has a visceral, exotic feel using guitars and accordions.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sort of made up our own genre, kind of Dark Americana, the Everly Brothers meets the Cramps with some rockability trappings,\u201d Collins said.<\/p>\n

Collins\u2019 art work will be for sale at the show as well, and it\u2019s affordable. Among other unique creations, he produces Pop-art images using pages from old novels.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a collision between digital art and ephemera type stuff,\u201d he said in an interview with Bryant Liggett of KDUR. \u201cI start with a photograph, and I reduce it down to its most basic black and white parts. Then I print the whole thing on vintage book pages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heather Narwid, owner of Sideshow, is known for throwing fun parties that combine art and music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not had an event in a while, so it feels like it\u2019s time. Baby Toro has played before, and everyone had fun. It\u2019s the last chance to hear this unique, local band while shopping for art,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Hardison describes the band\u2019s last Hurrah on Facebook. \u201cWe\u2019re forcing the lumbering, morose giant that is Baby Toro into a spare room where they will chain it to an iron radiator and leave it. Forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Sideshow event is free, but donations are recommended.<\/p>\n

jmimiaga@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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