PICK OF THE WEEK: The Firefly Autism Telluride Blues & Brews Battle of the Band 2014 – Park House – Saturday August 9th

Together with the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, Listen Up Denver! and Park House are hosting a “Battle of the Bands” event on August 9th that will benefit Firefly Autism and Autism Speaks and give some of the best bands in the Rocky Mountain region the opportunity to perform alongside some of the biggest musical names in the country at the 21st annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in September.

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival – September 15th – Telluride (Part 3)

Telluride Blues & Brews has grown from a niche, genre specific festival to one of the countries most well respected destination festivals. It has steadily gained recognition and the lineups are well thought out and hard hitting. If you are a lover of Blues based music, Funk, Soul, Rock, and Jazz then this is the festival for you. Congrats to Steve Gumbel on 20 years of realizing a vision, and thank you to Bill Kight, Courtney McClarey and the rest of the SBG Productions crew for making it all happen. We will see you next year, rain or shine.

Telluride Blues & Brews Festival – September 14th – Telluride (Part 2)

Day two of the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival features The Grand Tasting, where thousands of concert goers swill free craft beer for hours, in order to determine the best beer in the box canyon that Saturday. Mud splattered and squished as festival goers wet their whistles with the wares of over 50 craft Breweries. We are excited to say that our buddies over at Telluride Brewing Company were the “Best of Fest-Grand Tasting Champions” this year!!!

Telluride Blues & Brews – September 12th & 13th – Telluride (Part 1)

The 20th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival was a wet one, but the heavy downpours followed by strong sunshine yielded some awe inspiring rainbows. It seemed like from Thursday till Monday, the skies were telling us they were in charge, but reminding us to smile about that fact. We were at the whim of the weather. We were not in control. Giving in to the music and the mud, we approached the weekend humbled by both and decided to rage along with the rain as hard as we could.

Allen Stone – Telluride Blues & Brews “Artist Spotlight” Video

Listen Up Denver! is proud to be working with the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival as an official media sponsor to produce a series of “Artist Spotlight” videos. The third in this series features Soul artist Allen Stone. He discusses The Blues, Beer, his beginnings as an artist, and serves up a stirring take on a Sam Cooke classic. Stay tuned throughout the summer as Listen Up Denver! gives you a behind the scenes look at the artists playing the 20th Anniversary edition of Telluride Blues & Brews!

ZZ Ward – Telluride Blues & Brews “Artist Spotlight” Video

Listen Up Denver! is proud to be working with the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival as an official media sponsor to produce a series of “Artist Spotlight” videos. The second in this series features breakout Blues/Pop artist ZZ Ward. She discusses The Blues, beer, her beginnings as an artist, and how the Alan Lomax Field Recordings have influenced her career.