Last Thursday night Rayland Baxter sold-out The Bluebird Theater. While the crowd wasn’t exactly the most attentive, I’ll chalk it up to the kids getting amped for the weekend. The 20-something guys and their girlfriends downed the double Jack & Gingers and chatted loudly as their weeks slowly moved toward the rear-view mirror.
On Thursday, June 15th, the main street of Colorado’s most captivating town, was abuzz with an energy and excitement as the crowds (some there for days) made their way to Town Park for the start of the 45th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. There is no better setting for a music festival; there is no better music for such a setting.
Twenty minutes before the doors of The Ogden opened, the line to get in already stretched down the street and around the corner and air was buzzing with excitement. Once inside, grey hair peppered the room as 60 and 70 somethings who had probably seen Dylan or Cash in their prime jockeyed for position at the bar next to fresh young faces who will surely be telling their children that they saw Jason Isbell in his.
Greensky Bluegrass returned to Colorado for a three night run at The Boulder Theater this past weekend and it proved to be one for the ages. Friday night’s dance party featured sit-ins from Adam Aijala of Yonder Mountain String Band and opener Rayland Baxter as the band raged through a monster two-set show that featured some treasured originals alongside a slew of crowd pleasing covers.