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[click "Play" to hear Eileen's conversation with Victor Wooten]

 

by Eileen Burns

Victor_wooten Telluride’s 38th Bluegrass Festival will spotlight a host of hall of fame musicians over the four-day celebration, beginning on June 16th, including five-time Grammy® winner Victor Wooten, who will be performing with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.   Heralded as “the Michael Jordan of the bass, Wooten was recently named in The Top 10 Greatest Bass Players of All Time in “Rolling Stone Magazine’s”  Readers’ Poll, and has won “Bass Player Magazine’s” prestigious “Bassist of the Year,” three times now.  Wooten’s style continues to grow and transform, but he is best known for bringing the electric base to the forefront with a rhythmic freedom unlike any other bassist performing today.

12 June, 2011 /

Town of Mountain Village reserves Bluegrass Festival parking spaces for its residents and businesses

June 8, 2011 (Mountain Village, Colo.) – As the Town of Mountain Village becomes inundated with parked vehicles during the 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the town has set aside specific parking spaces for its residents and businesses from Wednesday, June 15 through Sunday, June 19.

Mountain Village residents who have procured a parking permit may park in the Town Hall Plaza Parking lot, the same lot as The Market at Mountain Village. The 26 spaces designated for permit holders are those located along the rock wall. These parking spaces are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and overnight parking is not allowed. Any resident with a parking permit may also park in the North Village Center pay-to-park surface lot for free. Again, overnight parking is not allowed.

11 June, 2011 /

by Jon Lovekin

Slide chutes Often, the best way to the mountain top is where fierce energy has blown down a path to the bottom. Snow avalanches do this. Where they load and run, decade to decade, is a clear path to the top, avoiding the tree fall and other debris in the deep dark woods that densely cover the hills.

Today was one of those days. I got a late start after checking the gear and carefully arranging the pack. The hike, work at the mine, and walk back out would take me into the early hours of nightfall even on this June day. The climb always cleared the pipes and the mind and today was no different. A cool breeze pulsed up the hillside chilling the sweat drenched clothes. As I topped out, light headed at the ridge I suddenly started as I heard voices. Looking all about there was no-one to be seen. Snatches of a far away conversation brought to me in pieces in the abrupt and now mysterious winds coming up from the valley. I was now well primed for the ghosts from yesterday that haunt these old mine sites.

10 June, 2011 /

This spring, Telluride Mountain School's high school traveled to Peru. Each student selected a topic to investigate such as water, nutrition and public health and produced four videos. Check out their amazing work. Branford Walker and Tucker Hensen   ...

08 June, 2011 /

Please join your fellow community nonprofit executive directors and the Telluride Foundation for our first Executive Director Breakfast on Thursday, June 9th at 8:30am.  This Breakfast will feature Jennifer Johnson, a consultant with JVA Consulting, who will be talking about connecting with your donors, text giving and more.   Please email me if you plan to come (and haven't already) by Wednesday at noon.
 
Each breakfast will begin around a specific topic or theme, but will allow plenty of time for Q&A, general discussion and networking.

07 June, 2011 /

By Dan Collins

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Art Goodtimes, Mushfest

The Telluride Institute is on a roll! We are offering a menu of fabulous summer events you don't want to miss—from an outdoor eco-classroom, to our annual Ideas Festival; from an art exhibition, to the infamous Mushroom Festival. Mark your calendars!

The watershed education program will bring back its bi-annual Bridal Veil Living Classroom, led by Alessandra Jacobson and a host of guest teachers. It starts with two weeks of intensive fieldwork in the beautiful and ecologically rich headwaters of Bridal Veil Basin, and continues through the fall; it’s open to future scientists and ecologists!

07 June, 2011 /
[click "Play" to listen to Colleen Trout's interview with Angela Dye]

 

Green Infrastructure – Environments that Sustain

Date:              Fri.  June 10, 2011    Time:  8:30 - 9:30 am @ Wilkinson Public Library

Speaker:       Angela Dye, FASLA, LEED AP - A DYE DESIGN

Come Learn: What Sustainable Design looks like in the landscape; the principles and features involved and examples of projects.…..

    •    Learn what is being designed to help our urbanized environments be sustainable and regenerative;
    •    See national and local examples of green infrastructure in practice;
    •    Discuss what techniques work in our climate and setting – and what may not;
    •    Learn about SITES – The Sustainable SITES Initiative, a LEED-like rating system for landscapes

07 June, 2011 /

kicker: at Telluride's Steaming Bean Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 8 pm

Don'tChat_Gossipingbordersontreason Is gossip good or bad for the soul? Does it lengthen your life or shorten it?  The Telluride Playwrights Festival explores what exactly is the nature of gossip and why do we so like to gossip? Where does gossip end and propaganda begin?

A group of local actors explore the subject, taking their clue from the Bible to Shakespeare to Star Magazine.  In addition, local writers such as Bob Rubadeau, Jeff Price, Rob Schultheis, Devin McCarthy, John Sutcliffe all have something interesting to say on the subject.
 
The Telluride Playwrights Festival brings playwrights and actors to town once a year to explore and workshop new plays by acclaimed playwrights from all over the country.  This year, the Playwrights Festival has decided to expand the spirit of the Festival, which starts mid-July, to an early beginning on  Wednesday, June 8.

06 June, 2011 /

This spring, Telluride Mountain School's high school traveled to Peru. Each student selected a topic to investigate such as water, nutrition and public health and produced the following videos. Check out their amazing work. “Soccer: The World’s Sport” Gregory Hope, Harry Kearney,...

05 June, 2011 /