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16 Jun Poets’ Corner: Feela for Father’s Day
To honor the memory of his father – and friend who was a father who just past – on Father’s Day, David Feela choose to continue a tradition scholars say might have emerged from Babylonian ruins, where upon a 4,000 years ago, a boy named Elmesu...
16 Jun Nothing Says Summer Like Telluride’s Bluegrass-Fueled “Running Of The Tarps”
Telluride Bluegrass 2017 hit the ground running on Thursday. Literally… This just in from StephanieWolf of Colorado Public Radio. (Also by the by, the music yesterday and today – in particular though not exclusively – Chris Thile by himself; Freddy & Francine (now off to New York...
16 Jun Telluride Bluegrass: Yonder Pre-releases “Love. Ain’t Love” in Telluride
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...
14 Jun Telluride Bluegrass: Tim O’Brien, Where the Rover Meets the Road
Tim O’Brien returns for the umpteenth (actually 41st) time to perform on the Main Stage at the 44rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. His band, that is The Tim’ OBrien Band, this year includes the friends who helped make Tim’s new CD, “Where the River Meets the Road”: Mike Bub,...
13 Jun EcoAction Partners: GREENLIGHTS, LED Program, Through 7/11
Telluride’s EcoAction Partners is pleased to announce another year of GREENLIGHTS, a rebate program sponsored by San Miguel Power Association (SMPA) and supported by the Telluride Foundation, participating governments, and EcoAction. The initiative, which started May 1, 2017, was just extended through July 11. The program is a win for...
13 Jun Telluride Bluegrass: Sunday in the Park With Abigail Washburn
“[Washburn is] something of an unofficial musical ambassador to China. She constructs cultural bridges, one note at a time,” CBS Sunday Morning. A few single-day Telluride Bluegrass tickets remain for those days and still available at http://shop.bluegrass.com/telluride or 800-624-2422. (As always, Planet Bluegrass charges no...
13 Jun Mountain Village: Free FirstGrass + Parking & Getting Around
Folky Americana acoustic duo Freddy & Francine – she compared to Aretha; he to Van Morrison – (story and podcast here), followed by the hilarious GrassHipPop family Bluegrass band The Cleverlys, will grace the stage on Mountain Village’s Sunset Plaza for the Eighth Annual FirstGrass Concert Wednesday, June...
12 Jun Gina Lollobrigida Viebrock, June ?, 2001-June 9, 2017
Yesterday our dog died. Yes, she was old. And no, it isn’t surprising. But the hole her passing has left in Susan’s heart and in mine doesn’t take into consideration that she was probably past her expiration date. Regular readers of TIO may remember how...