Festivals

Alpinists, photographers, writers and explorers on the roster for 2016 Telluride Mountainfilm. [caption id="attachment_57922" align="aligncenter" width="600"] A photo by National Geographic Young Explorer Alec Jacobsen, courtesy, Telluride Mountainfilm.[/caption] They have walked solo around the world, traveled to frigid landscapes to dive with leopard seals, scaled some of...

Two free screenings. 5:30 p.m. & 8 p.m., of 2015 Telluride Mountainfilm documentary “Les Voyageurs Sans Trace,” Wednesday, March 23 at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. Go here to listen to my interview with director Ian McCluskey. Scroll down to bottom of post to watch a trailer for...

A few single-day tickets for Thursday and Sunday are still available at shop.bluegrass.com or 800-624-2422. Discount four-day passes are still available for San Miguel County residents, exclusively at Telluride Music Company (333 West Colorado Ave.). Each San Miguel County resident can purchase up to two 4-day passes at the discounted price of...

Tickets are on sale now for the 23rd Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival scheduled to be held September 16-18, 2016. [caption id="attachment_57512" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Image, Barry Brecheisen[/caption]   The festival boasts three days of music and microbrews offering an eclectic mix of live blues, funk, indie, rock,...

Tickets, $95 per person, plus a 7% Historic Train Preservation fee, for upcoming Durango Blues Train go on sale Monday, February 1, 10:00 a.m. (MST) here. Purchasers must be 21-years-old to participate. Don't miss this music event of a lifetime; tickets are limited. The Durango Blues Train returns on June...

Ed. Note: The 40th Telluride Jazz Festival Names Jon Cleary as Guest of Honor for 2016. New Orleans Legend to Perform with Absolute Monster Gentlemen and Special Guest. Passes/tickets here. Please scroll down to the bottom of the story to listen to my podcast with Cleary. The 40th...

Filmmaker and photographer James Marcus Haney will be in town for screening and workshop of “No Cameras Allowed." No ticket? No money? No problem. That’s the philosophy at the heart of "No Cameras Allowed," the excellent music documentary by James Marcus Haney about sneaking into festivals, refusing to...

The 2nd annual Telluride Fire Festival consumed three plazas in Mountain Village for three nights with over 30 fire-art performers on two stages, as well as fire art installations and fire-breathing art cars. The sky was ablaze with flames spewing from a Phoenix Dragon of...

October 14-16, 2016 marks the 7th Telluride Horror Show, a three-day festival celebrating independent genre film in picturesque Telluride, Colorado. MovieMaker Magazine described The Telluride Horror Show as one of "13 Film Festivals to Die For" and "20 Coolest Film Festivals in the World.” The Denver Post said:...

If you come to the party, you won’t find Sinatra in the mix, but house, dub, new wave, disco, it will all be there and more in the sounds of Rob Garza, co-founder (with Eric Hilton) of Thievery Corporation and a pioneer of a flourishing...