Telluride Bluegrass Festival Starts Rolling Out 2019 Lineup

The 46th yearly Telluride Bluegrass Festival will happen at Town Park in Telluride, Colorado June 20 – 23. Coordinators have begun to reveal the 2019 lineup as a feature of Planet Bluegrass' "The 12 Days Of Solstice" advancement.

Jim James of My Morning Jacket will convey his performance band to the occasion in June. Additionally on board is the main Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band set in over 10 years. The super group highlights Anders Beck of Greensky Bluegrass, Travis Book of The Infamous String dusters, Robin Davis, Jon Stickley and Leftover Salmon's Andy Thorn. Furthermore, Railroad Earth and Gregory Alan Isakov will each perform at Telluride Bluegrass in 2019.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival Tickets for the festival are on sale now.

45th-Annual Telluride Bluegrass Wows Attendees With Old & New Fan-Favorites

                                                                             

Over the weekend, the famed Telluride Bluegrass Festival returned to its gorgeous home in Telluride, Colorado, for its 45th edition. Like years past, Telluride Bluegrass brought some of the best and brightest to the famed Colorado ski town, with a jam-packed lineup filled with favorites old and new.

On Thursday, Tedeschi Trucks Band topped the Telluride Bluegrass bill, in addition to performances from The Del McCoury Band, I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan), The Wood Brothers, Billy Strings, The Railsplitters, and Chris Thile. The next day, Greensky Bluegrass closed down the festival stage following a stand-out performance from the Telluride House Band, which featured Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Bryan Sutton, and Stuart Duncan. Friday also saw performances from Emmylou Harris, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Jerry Douglas Band, and others. Get your Telluride Bluegrass Festival tickets.

Moving into the weekend proper, Saturday’s lineup was headed by Leftover Salmon and Sam Bush Band. Bela Fleck & Brooklyn Rider, Peter Rowan & The Free Mexican Airforce, Telluride Troubadour, and St. Paul & The Broken Bones also all performed on June 23rd, in addition to a live broadcast of Live From Here with Chris Thile. Finally, the festival ended with a bang on Sunday with sets from Yonder Mountain String Band, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Punch Brothers, and Sturgill Simpson.

You can check out photos from the 45th-annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival below, courtesy of photographer Conrad Meyer. 

Telluride Bluegrass Festival Announces Initial 2018 Lineup

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2018 will be held June 21-24 in Telluride, Colorado. The organizers confirmed that the first round of musicians will be heading to the Rocky Mountains this summer for the 45th annual event.

Telluride Alignment Bluegrass Festival of 2018 presents Sam Bush Band, Sturgill Simpson, Emmylou Harris, The Del McCoury Band, Yonder Mountain String Band, Greensky Bluegrass and Salmon Remains. The list of artists also includes I am with her with Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O'Donovan and the Telluride Band home formed by Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, and Stuart Duncan Edgar Meyer. There will also be a Meyer performance with bassist Christian McBride also known as Peter Rowan and appear with the free Mexican Air Force with Flaco Jimenez. Mandolin player Chris Thile acts alone and with Punch Brothers, in addition to being the host of a live broadcast of his weekly radio show live here.

More acts will be added to the program before the festival. Tickets, camping and accommodation options are available via this link.

Complete Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2018 Lineup:

We're excited to share the complete main stage schedule for the 45th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Watch for the Elks Park, Family Tent, and FirstGrass announcements in the next few weeks.

Thursday, June 21, 2018:

• 10:00am — Gates Open
• 11:00 - Noon — Chris Thile
• 12:15 - 1:15pm — The Railsplitters
• 1:30 - 2:45pm — Billy Strings
• 3:15 - 4:30pm — The Wood Brothers
• 5:00 - 6:30pm — I'm With Her: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz & Aoife O'Donovan
• 7:00 - 8:30pm — The Del McCoury Band
• 9:00 - 11:00pm — Tedeschi Trucks Band

Friday, June 22, 2018

• 9:00am — Gates Open
• 10:00 - 11:00am — The Maes
• 11:15 - 12:15pm — Frigg
• 12:45 - 2:00pm — Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers
• 2:30 - 4:00pm — The Jerry Douglas Band 
• 4:30 - 5:45pm — The Infamous Stringdusters
• 6:15 - 7:30pm — Emmylou Harris
• 8:00 - 10:00pm — Telluride House Band featuring Sam, Béla, Jerry, Edgar, Bryan & Stuart
• 10:30 - Midnight — Greensky Bluegrass

Saturday, June 23, 2018

• 9:00am — Gates Open
• 9:30 - 10:30am — Telluride Band Contest
• 10:45 - 11:45am — Sugar & the Mint
• Noon - 1:15pm — Béla Fleck & Brooklyn Rider
• 1:45 - 3:00pm — Peter Rowan & the Free Mexican Airforce
• 4:00 - 6:00pm —  A live broadcast of "Live From Here" with Chris Thile
• 6:15 - 6:30pm — Telluride Troubadour
• 6:45 - 8:00pm — St. Paul & The Broken Bones
• 8:30 - 10:30pm — Sam Bush Band
• 11:00 - 12:30am — Leftover Salmon

Sunday, June 24, 2018

• 10:00am — Gates Open
• 10:45 - 11:45am —  The War & Treaty
• Noon - 1:15pm — Edgar Meyer & Christian McBride
• 1:30 - 2:45pm — Tim O'Brien Band
• 3:15 - 4:45pm — Yonder Mountain String Band
• 5:15 - 6:45pm — Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• 7:15 - 8:45pm — Punch Brothers
• 9:15 - 10:45pm — Sturgill Simpson 

Abbey Road engineer describes working on Frank Ocean's new albums

Matt Mysko speaks to NME about recording 'Blonde' and 'Endless'

Abbey Road engineer Matt Mysko has spoken about his role in the recording sessions for Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' and 'Endless' albums.

Ocean released his long-awaited second studio album 'Blonde' - stylised on its cover art as 'Blond' - last month (August 20) after over four years since the arrival of his debut, 'Channel Orange'. 'Blonde' was preceded by a visual album, 'Endless', which streamed on Apple Music in the days prior.

In an exclusive statement provided to NME, Mysko has discussed working with Ocean at the legendary London studio. He had previously tweeted: "Great to see this on the shelves. Big thanks to Frank for the credit mention".


"During my time working with Frank it felt to me like we had embarked on a journey to find another world," Mysko says. "The path he chose was anything but linear and we travelled down routes to the furthest extremities imaginable. No rules applied and dimensions were explored that ended up bearing no relation to the eventuality. Somehow, at the end of it all, it feels to me like the planet he found is much like our own, it feels familiar and is full of beauty but contains wonders never seen or experienced by anyone before."

Telluride Bluegrass Festival Wins Prestigious Industry Award

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival, organized by the firm Lyons Planet Bluegrass, received the "Festival of Music of the Year" honor Pollstar Concert Industry in Awards at the famous Ryman Auditorium Saturday night Nashville.

The Pollstar Concert Industry Awards, managed by the trade publication Pollstar music, is an annual event that celebrates the world of music.

Victoria Planet Bluegrass' Saturday marked the first time in 26 years history of the ceremony, or a bluegrass music festival or Colorado won in this category.

After announcing the winner, comedian Ralphie May shouted "I love bluegrass Love Telluride!"

In his acceptance speech, President Planet Bluegrass Craig Ferguson said:

"A while ago, someone called me and told me the Telluride Bluegrass Festival was nominated for Pollstar Music Festival Year I of course told him.’Who the hell is this?" It is a great honor to be recognized by the industry for what we do. "

Nominees for the Pollstar Awards are selected by international industry professionals. Pollstar readers to vote to choose the winners in each category.

"This award recognizes the community spirit of Telluride Bluegrass - artists, crew, volunteers, the thousands of festivarians - who have come together to create the magic of the festival weekend each summer solstice the last 41 years, "said spokesman Brian Eyster Planet Bluegrass.

Other nominees in the category include Electric Forest Rothbury, Michigan, and Austin Fun Fun Fun Fest, Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island and Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival close Ozarka, Arkansas.

During the past 41 years the festival has hosted artists as diverse as bluegrass pickers based in Colorado Hot Rize, former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, banjo master Béla Fleck and mandolinist Sam Bush (and his former band New Renaissance grass), Peter Rowan, Elvis Costello, Allison Krauss, the Dixie Chicks, Jerry Douglas, Emmylou Harris and many others.

The 42nd edition of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival returns to San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado June 18 to 21.

Aspen Times Weekly: ‘Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Forty Years Of Festivation’

Aspen was quite strange and wild in 1974, but not unusual and pretty wild to host what would become the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, according to Pastor Mustard.

In "Telluride Bluegrass Festival: Forty years of Festivation," festival emcee long and Aspenite Dan "Pastor Mustard" Sadowsky calls the people of San Juan resort in the "Goldilocks Zone Championship crazy" for what is the natural home for the meeting of galvanizing flat collectors and people who love them.

"Even Aspen was too established to accommodate what this festival was to become (and Aspen was a monster parade)," he writes.



The concise narrative Sadowsky irreverent, often hilarious, comments - familiar to "festivarians" and listeners of his weekly radio KAJX - help bring history to life festival feet stomping in this retrospective elegant design. Sadowsky delightfully gives readers with tales of backstage, onstage and beyond musical with a cast of characters including Bill Monroe, Martin Sexton, John Hartford, David Byrne, Emmylou Harris and others, to try to capture the magic and the phenomena of the festival as "the march of the canvas," the "House Band", the "Festivarian" and its amazing growth.

The book includes a chorus of voices from the festival along with Sadowsky. There is a foreword by Sam Bush, short essays by artists such as Edgar Meyer and Bela Fleck and Marikay Shellman (widow of the founder of the festival, Fred Shellman), with an afterword by Chris Thile of Nickel Creek.
It is a book coffee table with beautiful photographs of past festivals and reprints of his posters of each year, along with lists of perfomers of each excursion, in themselves, pulse accelerate any music fan.

Book design and layout are certainly gorgeous, and limited to 5,000 copies first impression is aimed at collectors and hardcore festivarians. The stories of the stage and behind him, however, deserve a wider audience - hopefully (? Perhaps by the 50th) Sadowsky can put together an oral history to capture the festival and its seismic cultural impact with a lower price and larger print run.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival Uses 100% Green Energy

The 40th bluegrass festival in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado in June this year, had more good music , but also uses 100 % green energy. Click HERE for the formation of the artists on the main stage at the historic 40th Anniversary Telluride Bluegrass Festival.




The 34th annual meeting of the people bluegrass lovin ' in Telluride, Colorado had the distinction of being the first 100 % carbon neutral music festival in the world! Thanks to Planet Bluegrass ensure that all electricity consumed in their offices and at their parties Lyon was replaced by clean energy without carbon emissions.



Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival this year coincided with the summer solstice, the moon and the longest day of the year. This magic moment of light and the sun began the summer of Colorado with all the fun and fantastic music that is the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.