Festivals & Concerts
Festivals & Concerts
Festivals & Concerts
Telluride Bluegrass
Every Summer Solstice, 11,000+ Festivarians converge on the historic mining town in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern CO (elevation 8,750’) for 4 days of adventurous acoustic music in the stunning Telluride box canyon. Since its early years, the unique genre of “Telluride Bluegrass” has embraced a diverse family of artists including Sam Bush, Robert Plant, Mumford & Sons, Brandi Carlile, Norah Jones, Jason Mraz, Greensky Bluegrass, Emmylou Harris, and many of the world’s most virtuosic acoustic instrumentalists – many of whom have returned to the festival for 25+ years. With music on the main stage, intimate workshop performances at Elks Park, late-night indoor NightGrass concerts, and pickin’ in campgrounds and condos ‘til dawn, Telluride Bluegrass is the “granddaddy of the modern festival circuit” (Relix).
RockyGrass
The last weekend of July, 5,000 Festivarians descend on the historic quarry town of Lyons (just 15 minutes north of Boulder in the Rocky Mountain foothills) for one of the world’s premiere traditional bluegrass festivals. With headliners including Steve Martin, Ricky Skaggs, Peter Rowan, The Infamous Stringdusters, Del McCoury Band, and Alison Krauss, RockyGrass has consistently sold-out in advance for the past decade. Renowned as a picker’s festival, the week leading up to the event, the RockyGrass Academy offers three hundred musicians of all ages an opportunity to learn bluegrass from many of the festival performers, including instrument building and a Kids Camp.
Rocky Mountain Folks Festival
In early August, the flow of the St. Vrain River slows through the Planet Bluegrass Ranch to the pace of songs and stories at the “summit on the song” – as we welcome 5,000 Festivarians to our celebration of songwriters from around the world, including headliners Lake Street Dive, Dave Rawlings Machine, Gregory Alan Isakov, Jackson Browne, Bob Weir, Ani DiFranco, and Lyle Lovett. Many of the festival performers spend the week teaching the art, craft, and business of songwriting for several hundred aspiring songwriters at The Song School.