Festivals

It’s one more example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts – although in this case, the parts are the best of the best. Booty-shaking good. [caption id="attachment_41556" align="aligncenter" width="399"] Keller Williams, by K.W.C. Taylor[/caption] For the 2012 recording, Pick, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams...

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...

Saturday NightGrass sold out. Rising stars, Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers, perform again Sunday, June 22, 1: 15 – 2:30 p.m. at 41st annual Telluride Bluegrass "Nicki has filled a void in music with her brand of vintage-tinged rocking country soul – music that's like an...

"We’re more than a decade into the post-classical’ era: classical musicians of all stripes are reconsidering the repertoire they play, and reimagining the way they play it. And the string quartet—once the focus of connoisseurs, now a sturdy off-road vehicle for sonic exploration—has been at...

As a long time fan, I have to admit I went all teenage girl when I heard I would be interviewing Dave Rawlings. Rawlings is an award-winning professional guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer known for his work with Old Crow Medicine Show and Ryan Adams. He...

[caption id="attachment_41908" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Dan Sadowsky, Telluride, 2013Clint Viebrock photo[/caption]   Now 41 years ago, as the story goes, Telluride musicians John “Picker” Herndon, Bruce Lites, J.B. Mateotti, Kooster McAllister and Fred Shellman, collectively known as “Fall Creek,” played during the town’s Fourth of July celebration. After...

  “If you hold my hand we’ll chase your dream across the sky/For we can fly, we can fly” (Fifth Dimension’s “Up, Up and Away,” 1967) Icarus tried it, but he got too close to the sun and crashed. Peter Procopio has had lots more success flying.  "When I lived...

Telluride Mountainfilm has been over for a week but its impact lingers on. For me, one of the most powerful experiences was last Monday’s free showing of the film, Mending the Line, followed by a Q & A with the film’s directors and central cast....

Passes and individual event tickets for the Telluride Wine Festival on sale as of Wednesday, May 28, 10:00 a.m. (MST) Tickets for the 33rd annual Telluride Wine Festival, Thursday, June 26- Sunday, June 29, 2014 just went on sale. [caption id="attachment_41306" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Elks Park tent, exterior[/caption] The Telluride Wine Festival, a...