Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 40 Years Of Festivation

Planet Bluegrass will mark the 41st edition of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival this summer coffee table book with a limited edition collection.

Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 40 Years Festivation is a volume of 216 page hardcover full of high resolution photographs , artists Telluride trials identified , and year after year the accounts of the festival from 1974 onwards .



Lead author of the book is the longtime festival MC, Pastor Mustard (Dan Sadowsky), in collaboration with Sam Bush, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Emmylou Harris, Winston Marshall (Mumford & Sons) and many others. Over 350 photographs adorn its pages, including images from Telluride city as a pioneer of the 19th century, images of every conceivable aspect of the party until the current day. Several are full page or double truck.

The input of each year includes a list of artists, the promotional poster of the festival, a lot of snapshots of the stage and grounds, and a reminder of Sadowsky. An example follows:

6The Telluride Nitty Gritty Dirt Band appeared in ‘86, with its colorful costumes Nudie Cohen and large white hats. I am amazed at how many musicians came to Bluegrass music through a 1972 double album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Nick Forster of Hot Rize admitted, for example.

 In the early eighties NGDB established his headquarters in Aspen, so it was altogether fitting and proper that must wander Telluride. NGDB was also one of the groups that started as a jug band, except with people like Jackson Browne and Bernie Leadon of the Eagles. Clock Works universe Dirt Band tangentially engaged with events in the mechanism of TBF. They were a great act - rather, until one night in June 1986 from its many incarnations, the line that night with Jimmy Ibbotson is still my favorite. .

Festivation 5,000 copies of the book will be printed, and initially offered only during the festival. Planet Bluegrass announced ways to get a copy if any remain after. No price has been announced for the book.

The Telluride festival has grown so much during those 40 years that the city, primarily a ski resort and tourist destination, Planet Bluegrass required to limit the number of tickets sold to ensure that the roads and the services of former mining community can handle visitors.

Tickets are still available for the event June 19-22 this year, although it is usually sold out by the time of the festival.