The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is synonymous with its founder, impresario Steve Gumble. His event is the first of its kind in the country, combining as it does micro-breweries with the best of blues music and then there's the backdrop: historic downtown Telluride and...
Editor's Note: Telluride Chamber Music Festival launches with the ever-popular painted violin series, including works by Elaine Fischer, Ellen Brody, Cindy Sampson, David Brankley, Kristin Johnson, Michael and Cindy Wszynski, John Hopkins, Julie Siegel, Susan McCormack, Barbara Konvracki, Bruce Gomez (who also created the 2012...
You snooze, you lose Tickets are going fast for the 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Only a limited number of Single Day passes remain for Friday and Sunday, with Saturday tickets now Sold Out, apart from a handful of local tickets. Sunday tickets are $65...
Last year was the warm-up for the main event, which is this year. At the 38th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Steve Earle alluded to "Treme," the HBO series in which he appears. And Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Allen Toussaint, another series regular (as himself)...
"Remember this name, R-O-B-E-R-T-A G-A-M-B-A-R-I-N-I. She is the best singer around for quite awhile,” said Telluride Jazz veteran, tenor saxophonist James Moody. No swizzle stick celebrity, this Italian chanteuse has a full-bodied voice to match her curves. Roberta Gambarini is the featured diva at the 36st annual...
Not 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 Bonnie Raitt. Jon Cleary, the 'Nawlins-based British funk and r & b singer, songwriter and virtuosic player of...
Workshops, forays, tastings and medicinal beers with world-renowned mycologists, 9/16-19, 2012 The 31st Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival looks forward to another exciting weekend, August 16-19, 2012. For over 30 years, Telluride has hosted this unique festival of all things fungal in the high San Juan Mountains...
"I was born at the right place and the right time to a wonderful family" If he appears too good to be true, that's because he is. It goes without saying, five-time Grammy-winner Victor Wooten is on any list of all-star bass players. In 2011, Rolling Stone...
Saturday, Sept. 15, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival presents the 12th Annual Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition. The always-popular event takes place from 9 a.m. – noon during the Festival's "Blues for Breakfast" concert, held at Telluride Elks Lodge, 472 West Pacific Ave. For a...
"Some cats love it, man. Most simply ain't digging' it no matter what angle they's swingin' at. Layin' down ten, Jack, blow'n a riff, ya can't hate Jazz 'cause there ain't no such animal. ("Jazz: A Multimedia History," Compton's New Media) There is such an animal,...
