The "Telluride Music Lovers Club" in conjunction with The Wilkinson Public Library will be Showing a BLUES Double Feature on Tuesday, September 14th starting at 6:00 PM...
Be sure not to miss Alberta Cross on the Main Stage Friday, September 17 @ 3:50 and later that night at the Sheridan Opera House @ 10:00 pm!
Alberta Cross are a New York-based band, formed by Petter Ericson Stakee (vocals, guitar) & Terry Wolfers (bass). Despite their different upbringings - Petter travelled from an early age between Sweden and England with his singer-songwriter father whilst Terry was brought up in London's East End - they formed what would later become Alberta Cross. After relocating to Brooklyn, New York, Petter and Terry solidified the line-up with the addition of Austin Beede, Alec Higgins and Sam Kearney.
The band's sound has been compared to Kings of Leon, The Band, Neil Young, The Raconteurs and other blues-influenced rock bands.
Back by popular demand, we are going to hold the 3rd Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Coolest Campsite Challenge! Anyone that is camping at the festival this year has the opportunity to win some amazing prizes just by having creative campsites. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!!! The campsites will be judged, as were last year, on their creativity, originality, and quality. In addition, this year we would like to see sustainability and community considered in the sites. 3 judges will roam the campgrounds in search of the coolest campsite throughout the festival and the winners will be announced Sunday after the Gospel hour. There are some rules that should be abided by to have a chance of winning.
COOLEST CAMPSITE CHALLENGE RULES
1. The site must have a particular theme (Please keep PG Rated, families will be camping in the campgrounds).
Remember, BE ORIGINAL!!!
2. Please post your campsite name for judging purposes (For example, if your theme is paradise, a name could be "Tropic Blues")
GRAND PRIZES
1st Place Winner - Two 3-Day passes to the 2011 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
2nd Place Winner - Two campground passes for the 2011 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
3rd Place Winner - Two t-shirts from the 2010 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
Don't miss Galactic with special guests Cyril Neville & Corey Henry on the main stage Saturday, September 18 @ 5:30!
The New Orleans-based jazz-funk ensemble Galactic formed in 1994; originally an eight-piece, the group soon pared down to an instrumental sextet comprised of guitarist Jeff Raines, organist Rich Vogel, bassist Robert Mercurio, saxophonists Ben Ellman and Jason Mingledorff, and drummer Stanton Moore. Later adding Crescent City music scene vet Theryl deClouet on vocals, Galactic built a fervent local following on the strength of a relentless live schedule that included opening slots for group heroes including the Meters, Maceo Parker, and Medeski, Martin & Wood. In 1996 Galactic issued their debut LP, Coolin' Off; upon signing to major label Capricorn, they re-released the album two years later, soon followed by the all-new Crazyhorse Mongoose. Since that time, they have released a handful of albums including Late for the Future in 2000, Ruckus in 2003, and From the Corner to the Block in 2007. The band itself released a pair of live albums of its sets at Jazz Fest in 2008 and 2009. In 2010 they issued their most ambitious project to date with Ya-Ka-May, a wholesale New Orleans recording featuring guest appearances by everyone from Irma Thomas and Big Chief Bo Dollis to the Rebirth Brass Band and Walter "Wolfman" Washington. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Be sure not to miss Allen Toussaint on the main stage Saturday, September 19 @ 4:20!
Allen Toussaint (born January 14, 1938) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer and one of the most influential figures in New Orleans R&B.
Allen Toussaint has crossed many paths in his illustrious 40 years plus career in music. He has produced, written for, arranged, had his songs covered by, and performed with music giants The Judds, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Patti LaBelle, Mac "Dr. John" Rebannac, Aaron and Art Neville, Joe Cocker, The (original) Meters, Glen Campbell, The Band, Little Feat, The Rolling Stones, Devo, Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Etta James, Ramsey Lewis, Eric Gale and the countless others.
His songs/productions have been featured in numerous films, including but not limited to, Casino, Moulin Rouge, and Maid in Manhattan. He served as musical director for the off Broadway play, Staggerlee, which won the prestigious Outer Circle Critics Award.
Toussaint career began in his early twenties when hired by the local Minit Records to supervise its recording activities, awaiting their arrival of Harold Batiste. Toussaint quickly accumulated an amazing string of hits for the label, producing, writing, arranging and often performing on tracks by Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas, Art and Aaron Neville, Chris Kenner, and Benny Spellman, putting his signature New Orleans sound on the map, an obvious continuation of the Domino/Bartholomew era.
Make sure you don't miss The Dana Fuchs Band on the Main Stage Friday, September 17 and at Fly Me To The Moon Saloon Friday night!
Dana Fuchs combines raw intensity, passionate vocals, starkly honest lyrics, and a fiercely commanding stage presence. With strong roots in blues, gospel and rock, the NYC-based performer leaves audiences spellbound - and a string of sold out shows - in her wake.
MUSIC
March 25, 2008: Dana released her first live CD, “Dana Fuchs Live In NYC,” featuring a bluesy roots-rock set list of brand new songs and material culled from her critically-acclaimed debut independent CD “Lonely For A Lifetime.” An accompanying DVD, “Live From NYC” showcases Dana’s incredible talent as a performer to a sold out show at New York’s legendary BB Kings.
Her debut national tour kicked off in spectacular fashion with three consecutive sold out shows. Dana will be touring across the USA and Europe throughout 2008. Following personal invites, Dana has supported or played with some of rock’s most legendary artists,including Ray Davies (The Kinks), Dickey Betts (The Allman Brothers) and Bob Weir (Grateful Dead)
FILM & TELEVISION
Across The Universe: Dana mesmerizes as Sadie the aspiring rock star in the original movie musical set to Beatles hits. Her exceptional voice can be heard throughout the film performing iconic Beatles tunes from “Don’t Let Me Down,” to the film’s pivotal track, “Helter Skelter, ”Dana also performs five hits on the film’s top five Soundtrack. Released last year, ATU was nominated for an Academy Award and Oprah said, “ATU is more than a movie, more than a movie musical it's an experience! ”Dana appeared in the trailer for the 2008 hit film “Stop Loss”aperforming an coustic version of her critically acclaimed track “Almost Home.”She is known as MTV’s voice of “The 10 Spot”, one of only two vocal artists selected by MTV Networks to do its broadcast voice-overs.
STAGE
Dana’s reputation has a must-see performer led the producers of the Off-Broadway production “Love, Janis” to cast her in the lead singing role of Janis Joplin. The show was a smash hit, winning her even more fans including renowned director Julie Taymor (”Frida”) who cast her as a star in Across The Universe.
We are having a contest to see who can guess the Saturday night’s headliner that will be revealed on August 16. You get one chance to guess. We will then draw one lucky winner from the group of correct guesses. The winner will receive a set of backstage passes to the 17th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Good luck!
Contest Rules:
1. The winner must already have or must purchase a 3-day festival pass to receive the prize of (2) backstage passes
2. Each person gets only ONE guess each
3. The contest will end on Friday, August 13, 2010
4. Go to our contact page at http://tellurideblues.com/M4/contact.html and send your submission here.
The Telluride Blues & Brews team is flying out to California in July to brew their very own beer for the Festival. With the help of Sierra Nevada Brewery, we will be developing our own recipe exclusively for the 17th annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Sierra Nevada will then brew 70 kegs to be sold at the festival – wow, we hope you like what we come up with! Thanks Sierra Nevada!
We are having a contest to help name our beer. We will be brewing a lighter style Sierra Nevada and we would like your help on naming this new brew. Besides bragging rights, the winner of this contest also gets a set of backstage passes!
Contest Rules:
1.The winner must already have or must purchase a 3-day festival pass to receive the prize of (2) backstage passes
Single Day Tickets for the 2010 Festival go on Sale today July 1st @ 10am Mtn.
Friday & Sunday Passes are $55.00, Saturday passes are $65.00. Tickets maybe purchased online at www.tellurideblues.com or over the phone toll free at 866.515.6166.
Blues singer and guitarist T-Model Ford was born as James Lewis Carter Ford in 1924 in the small rural town of Forest, Mississippi. By age eleven T-Model was plowing a field behind a mule on his family's farm. Ford got a job at a local saw mill in his early teens. T-Model eventually secured an even better job as a truck driver for a bigger lumber company. Moreover, Ford was sentenced to a chain gang for ten years for murder. Luckily, he was released after serving only two years of his sentence. In addition, T-Model also worked at a logging camp. He has recorded four fabulously lowdown rough and dirty albums for Fat Possum Records: "Pee-Wee Get My Gun," "You Better Keep Still," "She Ain't None of Your'n," and "Bad Man." With his savage moan of a ragged voice and gritty guitar playing style, Ford brings a gloriously raw and blunt ferocity to Mississippi Delta blues music that's both passionate and powerful in equal measure. T-Model appears as himself in the charming comedy short feature "Lohues Gets the Blues" and the excellent documentary "You See Me Laughin'." T-Model Ford lives in Greenville, Mississippi with his girlfriend Stella.
George is proud to have a stellar line-up join him on the road, including original Destroyer drummer Jeff Simon, who has been in the band since 1973. Also sharing the stage, longtime Destroyer bassist Bill Blough, lead guitarist Jim Suhler and sax player Buddy Leach. "I do the tour for all my fans," Thorogood says, "so we will be doing both the fan favorites and ‘George’s favorites’ -- and we will all have a great time."
Formed in Delaware in the early 1970s, George Thorogood & The Destroyers slew audiences across the country with their raucous take on classic urban rock and blues. The band broke big with the immortal rocker "Bad to the Bone," the title track from their gold-certified 1982 album. That song has been a perennial favorite, featured in everything from James Camreon’s "The Terminator" to the recent Wrangler’s commercial starring Bret Favre.
The wind has been at Thorogood’s back ever since. The Destroyers were the first, and perhaps the only, band to perform in 50 states in 50 days (accomplished in the early 1980s), and gained wide exposure in those early glory days of MTV.
The 2004 gold-certified compilation, "Greatest Hits: 30 Years of Rock," went gold and was Billboard’s Blues Album of the Year two years running. Just last year, the band released "The Dirty Dozen," which paired six new studio recordings with six classic fan favorites, including three popular tracks that had been out-of-print in the U.S.
Even with all his success, Thorogood is nothing if not thoroughly modest. Says the legendary rocker, "I’m just trying to hold my gig. I just want to make sure that at the end of the night the promoter comes up and says, ‘I want to book you again.’"
Telluride Alpine Lodging offers the widest selection of hotel rooms, condos and private homes in Telluride and Mountain Village. We still have availability for the Blues & Brews festival.
Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears have soul! We are so excited to have on the Main Stage on Sunday, September 19 & at the Sheridan Opera House on Saturday, September 18. They are a festival "must see"!
Anatomy texts might not show it, but the greatest soul and blues music leaves no doubt that the hip bone is directly connected to the heart -- a fact that’s driven home in every note laid down by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears. As they prove on their Lost Highway debut, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is, the Austin-based combo has the kind of gritty attitude and deliciously greasy groove-consciousness that’d pass muster in the toughest juke joint.
To paraphrase Ike and Tina Turner, Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is gives Lewis the chance to play nice and easy as well as nice and rough. He and his band mates take the latter route more often -- as on the fiery, brass-laced opener “Gunpowder” and the unabashedly horn dog anthem “Big Booty Woman.” But there’s far more than one trick up their collective sleeve, as borne out by the dark New Orleans march “Master Sold My Baby.” That from-the-gut stream-of-consciousness permeates the disc, with Lewis wailing wildly -- in a voice that’s one part Joe Tex, one part Tyrone Davis -- through sweat-soaked offerings like the gut bucket “I’m Broke” and “Please, Part Two” as his band mates turn up the heat, taking a low simmer to a full boil with turn-on-a-dime precision.
We are so excited to have JJ Grey & Mofro back in the line-up this year. With a new album (Georgia Warhorse) out August 24, you don't want to miss thsese guys on the Main Stage Saturday, September 18 or thier Juke Joint performance at the Telluride Conference Center.
Like Florida’s state flower, the orange blossom, musician JJ Grey’s songs are fascinating, beautiful, and complex. Both are products of the same ground: the rich, fertile and ancient soil of the Sunshine State. Born and raised just outside of Jacksonville, Florida, Grey comes from a long tradition of Southern musical storytellers and, like the best of the great Southern writers; he fills his songs with details that are at once vivid and personal, political and universal. His multi-textured music overflows with dynamic rhythms and thought-provoking lyrics. From raw funk to deep soul, blues and rock, JJ and his band Mofro deliver devastating live and recorded performances.
JJ Grey’s songs blend front porch realism with the best musical and literary traditions of the South. Whether it is a narrative passed down to him from his grandmother or the tribulations of a childhood friend, Grey’s ear for detail rings through in true storytelling fashion. His voice delivers with an unflinching strength that makes the personal universal and paints a vivid portrait of an exact time or place. Like his songs, Grey’s rich, soulful vocals are forceful and commanding, seemingly wise and experienced beyond his years.
From gritty funk and juke joint romps to contemplative country soul and blistering rockers, Grey’s music is in a class by itself, at once contemporary and classic.
Artist Diane Millsap is passionate about New Orleans. She loves its architecture, its people, and most of all, its music. Her frequent painting trips to New Orleans have brought her a great appreciation for the city’s soulful blues and jazz musicians. She finds their music to be a constant source of inspiration.
Her popular New Orleans prints are sold in such retail stores as Bed, Bath, & Beyond and widely distributed by on-line merchants Art.com and All Posters.com.
Her vibrant, distinctive paintings of New Orleans have been chosen by many corporations and civic organizations as marketing images, and her paintings hang in many private and corporate collections across the United States and abroad.
Diane Millsap is a full-time, professional artist. She was born in Southern California, raised in the Chicago area, and received her formal art training at Western Illinois University. She and her husband now live in rural northern Illinois. To see more of her work, visit: www.neworleans-art.net
