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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...

15 June, 2017 /

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,...

14 June, 2017 /

"[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...

13 June, 2017 /

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...

13 June, 2017 /

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...

12 June, 2017 /

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...

11 June, 2017 /

A few single-day tickets for Thursday and Sunday for the 44th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival are still available here or call  800-624-2422. Parker Millsap is performing on the Main Stage of Telluride Bluegrass on Sunday, 2 - 3:15 p.m. His NightGrass show at Fly Me To The Moon...

08 June, 2017 /