Festivals

Editor's Note: KOTOfm and Big Head Todd & The Monsters co-host Telluride's inaugural Ride Festival. The monster musical event takes place this weekend, Saturday, August 25 (around noon) – Sunday, August 26 (around 10 p.m.) and features Big Head Todd, Ben Harper, Los Lobos, 
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Our money is riding on The Ride. KOTO's inaugural Ride Festival happens the weekend of the Denver finish of the Big Ride, the USA Pro Cycling event, Saturday, August 25 (starting at noon) – Sunday, August 26 (ending at 10 p.m.) (The Telluride leg –Stage #1– is...

[caption id="attachment_22058" align="alignright" width="235"] Telluride BLues & Brews Fest 2012[/caption] Saturday Single Day tickets are now SOLD OUT, with limited quantities of 3-day passes, and Friday and Sunday Single Day passes available. Sunday tickets are $65 each, Friday tickets are $55 each and 3-day passes are...

"Being in nature is an opportunity to cultivate the child-eyes, the child-mind that neither knows nor presumes to know," Kathleen Harris The quote by Kathleen Harrison brings to mind something Picasso once said about the ideal state of an artist, which was returning to the vision...

Forget Russia. The final concert for the 39th annual Telluride Chamber Music Festival, a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. on August 19, hits a high note when mezzo-soprano Erin Neff sings a program entitled "From Spain with Love." Two years ago, when Neff performed at a...

Five more months and then? With over 20 years defining and debating the issues, John Major Jenkins is best known for his works as a researcher and author that theorize certain astronomical and esoteric connections of the calendar systems used by the Maya civilizations of pre-Columbian...

[caption id="attachment_21725" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Big Head Todd & The Monsters, C. Taylor Crothers"][/caption] Three words that instantly brighten up any dark associations with the Colorado town named "Columbine": Former Columbine locals, Big Head Todd. Over nearly three decades  – college-town concerts in the 1980s to national...

In the context of the Telluride Shroomfest, the world wide web takes on a whole other meaning: we are talking about mycelium, the sentient cobweb-like web of cells, which, in just one magical phase of its life cycle, fruits mushrooms. Shroom evangelists and guests of...

 "I am very outspoken about my environmental activism and concern for the planet. My expertise is in cultivating fungi and looking for exciting new applications that everyone can use on a small scale to contribute to the whole," Tradd Cotter Brooding headlines don't change the fact that...

[caption id="attachment_21627" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Crowd Above"][/caption] It's sensory overload of the very best kind: the robust pairing of culinary and visual arts happening under one celestial roof. The Telluride Festival of the Arts takes place Friday, August 17 (starting at noon) – Sunday, August 19 (ends at...