Festivals

                          Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, the last major event in the Telluride Summer schedule is coming this weekend, September 11-14, 2014. This year's festival was presaged by two summer weekends of Blues Trains on the Durango & Silverton line. I wasn't able to enjoy the...

Tickets for Telluride Blues & Brews here or by phone, toll-free, 866-515-6166   The summer music season of Colorado's Western Slope region will be capped off by three days of live music and craft libations at this year's Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. With only a week away,...

41st edition plays host to 25 new feature films in its main program. Tribute programs honoring Volker Schlöndorff, Hilary Swank and the 35th Anniversary of "Apocalypse Now." The people who make the popcorn seem to know what they are doing. Let’s give them a hand. And so do the...

The whole town is invited when hundreds of enthusiasts here for the Telluride Mushroom Festival get to honor their leader, Art Goodtimes, with a 30-minute live program on stage at the Palm Theater. Art, known as “Shroompa” to Mushroom Festival regulars, is turning 69. Pamela Zoline, founder of...

The 33rd annual Telluride Mushroom Festival, Saturday, August 16 –Tuesday, August 19, focuses on four main tracks within mycology: Culinary, Medicinal, Entheogenic, and Mycoremediation. “When you see hundreds of festival participants dressed as mushrooms in our epic annual costume parade, you’ll have no idea that serious science...

Telluride Mushroom Festival conducts serious science during the world’s biggest mushroom party customized for every budget & schedule. Lots of options for day passes, single forays, and pre-festival workshops, etc. Buy tickets here. Below is a day-by -day reckoning of festival highlights. Friday, August 15: [caption id="attachment_44174" align="aligncenter" width="388"] Tradd...

The Telluride Mushroom offers multiple food adventures for all tastes and wallets and about five forays per day leaving at 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. Check the website for details. The Telluride Mushroom Festival, Friday, August 15  – Tuesday, August 19, bills itself as the...

2nd Annual Many Hands Fiber Arts Festival August 8-10 Telluride Fiber Arts was the brainchild of Val Levy Franzese, a multi-talented artist (and owner of Black Bear Trading). "Art-crafts are part of Telluride History,” Val explains."Wives of the miners made quilts and knitted hats, scarves, sweaters and mittens to...

Buy tickets to workshop learn to create a palette of mycopigments with mushroom dyer Alissa Allen here. The 33rd annual Telluride Mushroom Festival is delighted to offer three workshops with mycophile and artist, Alissa Allen, whose work combines her “passion” for foraging and mushroom identification with her...