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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — David Durham grew up singing with his family Sunday afternoons while either his father or grandmother played the piano.
Durham will share some of those songs plus others during his “Songs of a Lifetime” concert Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Roper Music Ballroom.
Durham will be joined by the popular King ‘n Trio band, of which Durham is a member and has played guitar for 10 years. Harmonica player Terry Toner will also perform that evening.
Proceeds from every King ‘n Trio concert benefits a local nonprofit organization, and the Feb. 4 performance is no different. Ticket sales will go toward The House, a shelter for homeless Mesa County teens in the process of being founded.
“My mom told me a number of years ago to find something I liked and do some good with it,” Durham said. “That's what the music is all about — it is fun and something we love to do — and the fact that we can do some good along with it is just the icing on the cake.
“There will be everything from Burl Ives' ‘Blue Tail Fly' to ‘The Fox,' one of the first songs I ever learned,” Durham said.
The concert will also include songs Durham sang during his high school and college years, as well as songs collected from four summers performing at Glacier National Park for guests at the Many Glacier Hotel during the 1960s.
“The workers (at Glacier) were all musically inclined. Every week we'd do a hootenanny for the guests,” Durham said.
Durham will also perform seven or eight original tunes he's written, including “Grand Valley Home,” and “Four Way Test” — a song about the Rotary Four Way Test developed by a Rotarian who was struggling with his business in 1932. The King ‘n Trio has performed the song at four international Rotary conventions.
Concertgoers will also hear for the first time a new tune titled “Hello, Good-bye” — a song inspired by Durham's father, a college professor, who died from Alzheimer's Disease many years ago.
“This song has taken me 10 years to write,” Durham said.
The song is written from the perspective of the Alzheimer's patient, he said.
Besides Durham, the King ‘n Trio is comprised of Chris Unfug playing guitar, banjo and mandolin, Russ Williams on guitar, and Merritt Kinsey on string bass.
John Mok-Lamme, executive director of Karis, Inc., the nonprofit spearheading The House project, estimates there are 160 homeless teenagers in the Grand Valley.
“We're very thankful for the concert,” Mok-Lamme said.
The $10 tickets are available at Roper Music, 136 N. Fifth St., and Bray Real Estate, 1015 N. 7th St.
Durham will share some of those songs plus others during his “Songs of a Lifetime” concert Saturday, Feb. 4, in the Roper Music Ballroom.
Durham will be joined by the popular King ‘n Trio band, of which Durham is a member and has played guitar for 10 years. Harmonica player Terry Toner will also perform that evening.
Proceeds from every King ‘n Trio concert benefits a local nonprofit organization, and the Feb. 4 performance is no different. Ticket sales will go toward The House, a shelter for homeless Mesa County teens in the process of being founded.
“My mom told me a number of years ago to find something I liked and do some good with it,” Durham said. “That's what the music is all about — it is fun and something we love to do — and the fact that we can do some good along with it is just the icing on the cake.
“There will be everything from Burl Ives' ‘Blue Tail Fly' to ‘The Fox,' one of the first songs I ever learned,” Durham said.
The concert will also include songs Durham sang during his high school and college years, as well as songs collected from four summers performing at Glacier National Park for guests at the Many Glacier Hotel during the 1960s.
“The workers (at Glacier) were all musically inclined. Every week we'd do a hootenanny for the guests,” Durham said.
Durham will also perform seven or eight original tunes he's written, including “Grand Valley Home,” and “Four Way Test” — a song about the Rotary Four Way Test developed by a Rotarian who was struggling with his business in 1932. The King ‘n Trio has performed the song at four international Rotary conventions.
Concertgoers will also hear for the first time a new tune titled “Hello, Good-bye” — a song inspired by Durham's father, a college professor, who died from Alzheimer's Disease many years ago.
“This song has taken me 10 years to write,” Durham said.
The song is written from the perspective of the Alzheimer's patient, he said.
Besides Durham, the King ‘n Trio is comprised of Chris Unfug playing guitar, banjo and mandolin, Russ Williams on guitar, and Merritt Kinsey on string bass.
John Mok-Lamme, executive director of Karis, Inc., the nonprofit spearheading The House project, estimates there are 160 homeless teenagers in the Grand Valley.
“We're very thankful for the concert,” Mok-Lamme said.
The $10 tickets are available at Roper Music, 136 N. Fifth St., and Bray Real Estate, 1015 N. 7th St.
GO&DO
What: David Durham's “Songs of a Lifetime” benefit concert with special guests Chris Unfug, Merritt Kinsey and Russ Williams from the King'n Trio, and Terry Toner
When: 7 p.m. Sat., Feb. 4 Where: Roper Music Ballroom, 136 N. Fifth St. Cost: $10 Info: Tickets available at Roper Music and Bray Real Estate |
