Festivals

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...

Buy tickets here for the 33rd annual Telluride Mushroom Festival.: 4-day Full Festival passes, only $275 for all films, lectures, forays and more; Single-day passes also available online and includes forays and lectures for the chosen day, including evening keynotes and films; forays  (without as pass) only...

“Villela doesn’t just sing. She actually dances with her voice on top of Brazilian beats,” San Francisco Examiner When we think about the music of Brazil, we think about the rhythms of the bossa nova and names like Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Sergio Mendez and...

Jazz virtuoso and pianist Monty Alexander is acclaimed all over the globe for his seemingly extraterrestrial technique and sublime, heartfelt swing. Now in the 50th year of his performing career, Monty draws great pleasure from mixing, twisting and bending different genres into an accessible musical...

No sure who is line ahead of him, but according to musical icon Bonnie Raitt, Jon Cleary is next in line. "He's the 9th wonder of the world," said long-time (since 1999) professional colleague Bonnie Raitt. [caption id="attachment_43470" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Jon Cleary and The Absolute Monster Gentlemen[/caption] Jon...

Lettuce to perform Saturday, August 2, 7:50 p.m. Buy tickets now here. The word "jazz," originally "jass" was slang for love-making or whatever anyone did who went to brothels at the turn of the 20th century. Then it became the kind of music played in brothels...