The 2017 Telluride Wine Festival takes place Thursday, June 22 - Sunday, June 25. Don’t have a pass? Don’t pass. This year’s weekend is billed as "Choose Your Own Adventure” – though some events are reserved for pass-holders and patrons only. For a full schedule,...
To honor the memory of his father - and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...
Telluride Bluegrass 2017 hit the ground running on Thursday. Literally...
Telluride has its festivals. Nederland has Frozen Dead Guy Days. No kidding, celebrated annually from Friday – Sunday the first full weekend of March. A centerpieces of Frozen Guy Days is a screening of the film “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed,” a magnum opus which...
How did Father’s Day come about? According to history.com, during the 1920s and 1930s, a movement arose to scrap Mother’s Day and Father’s Day altogether in favor of a single holiday, Parents’ Day. Every year on Mother’s Day, pro-Parents’ Day groups rallied in New York City’s...
Tim O’Brien returns for the umpteenth (actually 41st) time to perform on the Main Stage at the 44rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. His band, that is The Tim’ OBrien Band, this year includes the friends who helped make Tim’s new CD, “Where the River Meets the Road”: Mike Bub,...
"[Washburn is] something of an unofficial musical ambassador to China. She constructs cultural bridges, one note at a time,” CBS Sunday Morning. A few single-day Telluride Bluegrass tickets remain for those days and still available at http://shop.bluegrass.com/telluride or 800-624-2422. (As always, Planet Bluegrass charges no services...
Folky Americana acoustic duo Freddy & Francine – she compared to Aretha; he to Van Morrison – (story and podcast here), followed by the hilarious GrassHipPop family Bluegrass band The Cleverlys, will grace the stage on Mountain Village’s Sunset Plaza for the Eighth Annual FirstGrass Concert Wednesday, June...
Grammy-winning Sarah Jarosz returns for an encore at the 44th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Her regular set is scheduled for Saturday, June 17, 2:15 - 3:30 p.m. But expect the singer-songwriter to pop up throughout the weekend, joining her many friends. "Sarah represents the vitality of the modern folk era… reverence for...
The point of it all is to break down the headlines, the week’s most controversial issues, determine why a particular issue is important and reveal the best arguments on each side of the story. In a recent iterations of The Short Version, Cleo Abram talked about how we could end partisan gerrymandering. She...
