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The Ride Festival – July 14th & 15th – Telluride Town Park

Estimated read time 5 min read

While Telluride Bluegrass Festival is the granddaddy of music festivals in Telluride, The Ride Festival, now in its seventh year, has quickly become recognized for a diverse lineup and past heavy hitters such as Pearl Jam, Beck, and Widespread Panic. This year’s edition leaned a bit more on the jam band end of the spectrum, featuring headlining sets from The String Cheese Incident both nights of the festival.

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Amos Lee & The Colorado Symphony – August 1st – Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Estimated read time 3 min read

It was a gorgeous summer night at Red Rocks this past Friday and fifty-year-old white women waited in long lines to buy Beringer white wine. And buy it they did. As the night progressed the blouse wearing masses yapped, sipped and sang. The sky changed colors over the sold-out rocks and the crowd found their seats early for another magical collaboration with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.

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

Estimated read time 7 min read

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.

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

Estimated read time 1 min read

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.