June 18 to 25, 2009Visible Planets: Morning: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter Evening: Saturn Returning Friends and Recurring Seasons – Happy Birthday and Summer Solstice It’s Bluegrass in Telluride and for me that means music and motorcycles. It’s also one of my best friend’s birthdays...
[click “Play” button to hear Susan’s conversation with Jerry Douglas] Dobro player Jerry Douglas is definitely Telluride’s B.M.O.C. this weekend. He is in town celebrating his silver anniversary at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival: 25 years at the 36th annual gathering of the tribe of legendary...
[click "Play" button to hear Clint's conversation with Cosy Sheridan] There are lots of things happening at Telluride's Wilkinson Public Library. This time Scott Doser, program director at the library, has laid on a weekend of workshops plus a free concert on Saturday night. Cosy...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with John Cowan] John Cowan was only 21 when he joined Telluride Bluegrass Festival sensation, New Grass Revival, which also featured the redoubtable talents of Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and Pat Flynn. For a decade and a half,...
[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Susan McCormick] Susan McCormick at Telluride's Stronghouse Studios: Susan McCormick is a longtime local who generally maintains a low profile around town. March 5 will different. It will be Susan's once a year day, when her latest...
Leonardo da Vinci, an influence, had the Mona Lisa, and Roger Mason has the New Sheridan, his muse, and its setting, the town of Telluride. The New York-based painter has merged with the hotelscapes and townscapes he paints over and over again. Main Street is...
Some faces of KOTO Beyond Telluride’s KOTO, the FM and AM radio dials are crowded with commercial stations, offering not very much worthwhile around the clock, an incessant roar of rock, C & W, lots of “oldies,” inane talk and harsh rap. Of the...
Autumn, Rudy’s Trail “Where will you spend the night?” Rico was concerned because I was getting a late start. It had snowed the night before in Aspen, and because I was traveling on a motorcycle I had delayed my departure for the Canyonlands until...