Events

Telluride's Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a back-to-back Mardi Gras celebration featuring the Infamous Stringdusters live at the Sheridan Opera House on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 8 and 9, 2016. Show, 8 p.m.; doors, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 general admission on the floor; $40 reserved seats...

Telluride Arts presents the first First Thursday Art Walk , the second of  the winter 2016 season. Celebration of local talent takes place Thursday, February 4. A free Art Walk map offers a self-guided tour that can be used at any time to find galleries that are open...

San Miguel Resource Center’s Chocolate Lovers’ Fling is a fun-raiser which includes chocolate treats by local chefs, a silent auction, music, a raffle, and cash prizes for Best Dressed and more. Tickets in advance, $45, available at Two Skirts in Telluride and online at sanmiguelresourcecenter.org. VIP Tickets are $150...

Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 Time: 7:00 p.m. (Come early for a seat and a drink.) Location: Ah Haa School for the Arts Telluride Arts’ Twenty(by)Telluride is a series of fun, lively, fast-paced slide presentations that showcase the inner workings of the minds of professional artists and other creative individuals. Each presenter gets exactly...

Tickets, $95 per person, plus a 7% Historic Train Preservation fee, for upcoming Durango Blues Train go on sale Monday, February 1, 10:00 a.m. (MST) here. Purchasers must be 21-years-old to participate. Don't miss this music event of a lifetime; tickets are limited. The Durango Blues Train returns on June...

The 21st annual Chocolate Lovers’ Fling, a fun-raiser for the San Miguel Resource Center, includes chocolate treats by local chefs, a silent auction, music, raffle, and cash prizes for the Best Dressed. Tickets in advance, $45, available at Two Skirts in Telluride and online at sanmiguelresourcecenter.org....

Something familiar, something peculiar, something for everyone is happening tonight –or rather, Friday through Sunday nights, January 29 – January 31, 2016, at 6 p.m. That’s when the Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People’s Theatre presents director Jen Julia’s adaptation – for the second time around –...

Ed. Note: The 40th Telluride Jazz Festival Names Jon Cleary as Guest of Honor for 2016. New Orleans Legend to Perform with Absolute Monster Gentlemen and Special Guest. Passes/tickets here. Please scroll down to the bottom of the story to listen to my podcast with Cleary. The 40th...

Filmmaker and photographer James Marcus Haney will be in town for screening and workshop of “No Cameras Allowed." No ticket? No money? No problem. That’s the philosophy at the heart of "No Cameras Allowed," the excellent music documentary by James Marcus Haney about sneaking into festivals, refusing to...

The 2nd annual Telluride Fire Festival consumed three plazas in Mountain Village for three nights with over 30 fire-art performers on two stages, as well as fire art installations and fire-breathing art cars. The sky was ablaze with flames spewing from a Phoenix Dragon of...