{"id":73676,"date":"2016-08-24T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/david-luning-to-perform-in-dolores\/"},"modified":"2016-08-24T21:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T21:41:33","slug":"david-luning-to-perform-in-dolores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/david-luning-to-perform-in-dolores\/","title":{"rendered":"David Luning to perform in Dolores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8a3bc519-c780-45b9-bb51-d6514f644059&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"591\" height=\"394\" alt=\"Courtesy photo\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Courtesy photo<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Up-and-coming country rocker David Luning and his band will perform at the Dolores River Brewery on Saturday, Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter from Forestville, California plays  Americana, folk, country, and rock. He performs on guitar, piano and harmonica.<\/p>\n<p>Luning\u2019s debut album \u201cJust Drop on By\u201d garnered film and TV placements, and his song \u201cWhiskey Bottle\u201d is featured in NBC\u2019s series \u201cGrimm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also signed a record contract with HWY 61 Music with a February 2017 release date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been working on the record and am stoked how it is turning out,\u201d he told The Journal. \u201cI\u2019ve had the awesome opportunity to work with the legendary producer Karl Derfler on this record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While studying at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Luning was inspired by Americana great John Prine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like a bolt of lightning that struck my soul,\u201d Luning said. \u201cIt was simple and real, like a family that I wanted to be a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luning made his TV debut on American Idol in 2014,  singing his original song \u201cIn Hell I Am.\u201d The performance placed him in the top 100 and earned praise from  country star Keith Urban, who remarked, \u201cYou\u2019re a good singer-songwriter, storytelling guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A prolific songwriter, Luning has been honing his musical skills performing solo or with the David Luning Band, which features Dave Sampson (guitar), Ben Dubin (bass), and Zak Garn (drums).<\/p>\n<p>What can Dolores expect Saturday night?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood times,\u201d says Luning. \u201cDance songs, rock &amp; roll, folksy storytelling tunes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Luning also co-writes and performs music with vocal virtuoso, Brodie Jenkins, in the folk duo Ghost and Gale whose music is comprised of haunting cinematic folk harmonies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>and band coming Aug. 27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[938,44],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-country-music","tag-dolores"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73676"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}