In 1987 I previewed the 14th annual Telluride for the Daily Camera. Performers that year included newcomers Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith, Rodney Crowell and Roseanne Cash, Riders in the Sky and the Telluride All-Stars: Marc O’Connor, Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer, Sam Bush and Bela Fleck. In the article I asked guitarist Leo Kottke what he [...]

1:45 p.m. Sunday, partly sunny, semi-conscious Town Park, Telluride: The Telluride Bluegrass Festival  is 36 years old, so it’s not surprising that a few annual traditions have developed. Sunday’s first music has almost always been a “gospel,” given a sommewhat wide interpretation. Two years ago the legendary Mavis Staples woke up everyone in the tents. [...]

5:36 p.m. Saturday, Telluride: A few random notes as the sun came back out during a much-anticipated set by Australian singer Kasey Chambers and her husband, Shane Nicholson. The duo’s folk-country sensibility and harmonies echo another legendary pairing: Emmylou Harris (who plays a solo set Sunday) and the late Gram Parsons …
 
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