Alpine Bank is the big sponsor for the event, the question is will Telluride be the big winner? Eco-entrpreneur and Telluride Outside fly fishing guide David Allen leads The Challenge, a friendly competition among 31 participating mountain towns to reduce consumption of single-use...
Telluride Mountainfilm and Telluride Bluegrass are known far and wide as festivals for folks with a come-to-the-neighborhood feel. On the other hand, the Telluride Wine Festival, this weekend, June 25 – June 28, is perceived to be highbrow, for a sleek, well-heeled fraternity, who are all about Reidel, not KOTO plastic beer cups. It's for "them," not "us." Right? Wrong. What better proof of the event's parochial bent than beer – yep, brews as well as wine and spirits this year – and another Telluride Wine Fest first: a concert Saturday evening, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m., featuring brooding urban poet and musical mixologist Clarence Greenwood, aka, Citizen Cope, a uncommon performer with a common touch.
Devotees of the Telluride Musicfest have already gotten their tickets. For Festival virgins, the following is the schedule:
All Concerts at 7:30PM
• June 24 CONCERT #1 at Mai Home (at Skyline Ranch)
• Featuring Trio Solisti, founding ensemble
• Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op 49
Schoenfield Cafe Music
Mendelssohn Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op 66
• June 28 CONCERT #2 at Mai Home (at Skyline Ranch)
• Artists: David Harding, viola; Wendy Sutter, cello; and Trio Solisti
Beethoven Duet with Obligato Eyeglasses for viola and cello Woo 32
Ravel Sonata for violin and cello
Mendelssohn Sonata in D major for cello and piano
Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor
[click "Play" for Ted Hoff's comments on continuing puppy training] Young Telluride families are like families all over the world: parents anticipate terrible twos with the same dread accorded to a trip to the dentist. The terrible twos is the age when their adorable babies...
Ridgway, Colorado, is much more than a bedroom community for Telluride. The town is famous – or infamous – as the location for several movies, including "How the West Was Won," and one of actor John Wayne's late great movies, "True Grit," (1969), in which Wayne stars as Rooster Cogburn. The True Grit Cafe is filled with John Wayne memorabilia, but as far as we know, no drunken, one-eyed federal marshals.
Ridgway boasts an abundance of wildlife: mountain lions, badgers, deer, elk, bears, coyotes, and bald eagles are indigenous to the area. And a river runs through it.
The Uncompaghre is a great source for trout fishing and this weekend, the focus of Ridgway's second annual River Festival. The Mosaic Community Project, a local nonprofit dedicated to sustainable living practices, environmental awareness, and the arts, organized the FREE watershed celebration,11 a.m – 9 p.m., downtown, in and around Rollans Park.
Just down the road a piece from Telluride, all day Saturday, June 27, the neighboring town of Ridgway is hosting an all-day River Festival, with activities for kids of all ages. One of the main event sponsors is Telluride's Jagged Edge, the kayaking hub of Southwestern Colorado.Jagged Edge owner Erik Dalton and store manager Cari Mackey will be on site throughout the day with a fleet of demo kayaks and all the required equipment from the store available for anyone to use for free.
They are here in force. Telluride Wine Festivarians, the people who inhale audibly at the mere mention of the word "Bordeaux" paired in the same sentence as the words "Chateaux Lafite Rothschild." But few of them condone torture in any form, including phrases such as "afterthoughts of linden" and "fragrances of toasted milk bread," a few examples on a long list of poetic flights of fancy used to describe the almighty grape.
(Editors note: We have corrected an error later in the story. The Italian Reserve event at the View is Friday, 2:30-4:00)There is little doubt where Franco Cavalero of St. Agata or Emiliano Alessi would come down in the ongoing debate among oenophiles between terroirists and wine-making scientists/technophiles: location, location, location.
Mark English is in Telluride this weekend – at least in spirit. The newest paintings of this great artist/illustrator are now on display Telluride Gallery of Fine Art. The foggy foggy dew image that became the poster for the 28th annual Telluride Wine Festival is also his.
What is the syntax that unifies Mark English's magical, mystical paintings? Are there any governing principles that unite them? If you guessed that images of Native Americans, a ghost rider, a toy town, and farmscape suggest a rural Western past filtered through memory onto a canvas, you would be right.
Mark English was born in 1933 and raised in the rear view mirror town of Hubbard,Texas, which lies northeast of Waco. This no-count address once called Slap-out is a patchwork of farms, cotton fields, and snaking creeks and country roads, just exactly what is pictured in his "Farm to Market Road."
His handle is "wine dog" and he is always learning new tricks.
