2011 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Wrap up!

THANK YOU!

September 21, 2011 (Telluride, CO) – The 2011 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival ended with blues skies, warm smiles and snow capped mountains in the San Juans above Telluride. All we can say is THANK YOU! As we sift through the videos, photos, reviews, and online posts, we're left with a deep appreciation that Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is one of the most beloved festivals around. Many thanks to all of you who come together year after year to make each and every Blues & Brews a unique celebration of music, family, friends, and good fun. We're already looking forward to next year!

Special thanks to all our guests, volunteers, staff, sponsors, venders, and especially the Town of Telluride. We’ll see you next year! 

Please keep in touch with us through Facebook and Twitter for festival photos, videos, and news and THANKS FOR AN INCREDIBLE 2011!

TELLURIDE BLUES & BREWS SUNSET BLUES CONCERT ~ September 15, 2011

 SUNSET BLUES CONCERT FEATURING THE SUGAR THIEVES

September 12, 2011 (Telluride, CO) – Just another reason to attend the 18th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival!The Telluride Blues & Brews festival is delighted to announce a free concert to kick-off the weekend's festivities, the Sunset Blues Concert, which will be held on Thursday, September 15, 2011, featuring Arizona’s voted Best Blues Band, The Sugar Thieves. 

There is no better way to launch the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival than with Sugar Thieves guitarist Mikel Lander and singer Meridith Moore. They have proven that hard work, massive talent and big dreams can get you where you want to go. The band’s dedicated intent and serious chops has brought them to this lofty achievement playing the festival main stage and the Sunset Blues Concert. Instantly embraced here in Telluride, the band is wildly popular in Arizona where they’ve been voted Best Blues Band in Arizona, among other accolades. And at the International Blues Challenge of 2009-10, they were named as one of the Top 10 unsigned bands. The Sugar Thieves’ mission is to re-introduce the blues to the next generation. Along with soulful originals, the Thieves feature classic blues songs from the 1920s-40s and serve it all up sultry and warm.

The 18th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival will also feature featuring headliners Willie Nelson, The Flaming Lips, and Big Head Todd and the Monsters. Additional performances include The Robert Cray Band, Zappa Plays Zappa, moe., Marcia Ball, Fitz and the Tantrums, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Mavis Staples, Anders Osborne, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit and many more.

The 2011 Festival promises a magical three-day celebration of live blues, rock, funk, gospel, jam band, aspiring new talent, and some of the biggest stars on the Festival circuit today! With over 20 nationally touring acts on the main stage, blues with breakfast, and late-night jams in five Juke Joint venues; musical entertainment abounds in Telluride at the 18th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.

Additional Festival highlights include a wide variety of food and craft vendors, the festival’s House of Brews beer tent featuring various craft beers, the Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition, the festival Rainbow Kids area and Kid’s parade.

Along with an amazing weekend of music and entertainment, Telluride Blues & Brews proudly presents the Grand Tasting Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011 on the festival grounds. One of the premier beer tasting events in the Southwest, the Grand Tasting features more than 150 beers from over 50 microbreweries, including those from the Telluride Blues & Brews official beer sponsor, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, who will be featuring the Festival’s signature special brew, Back Porch Lager.

There are limited quantities of tickets available; with only several hundred single day tickets left in stock.  Single Day tickets, Three-day passes, Juke Joint tickets, and camping passes are currently on sale.

For Festival information or to purchase tickets visit us online at www.tellurideblues.com or call 1.866.515.6166 today. Tickets available locally at Telluride Music, located at 123 E. Colorado Ave.

The 4th Annual Coolest Campsite Challenge

Attention Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Campers!

 

In addition to a fun-filled weekend with great music, delicious beer, breathtaking scenery, an action packed kid-zone, and intimate late night Juke Joint shows, we are proud to announce an additional fun activity for all festival campers to enjoy. The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is proud to announce the Coolest Campsite Challenge.

Back for its fourth year, the Coolest Campsite Challenge is great way for you to participate in making the festival campground extra festive, while having the opportunity to win some sweet Blues & Brews Festival prizes.

How it works!

Every festival camper can participate and there is no registration required! Come to the festival, find your campsite and turn it into a unique, fun, colorful and themed paradise. During the festival, the Blues & Brews staff will send around seasoned campsite judges to look for the coolest campsite. Judges will be looking for campsites that have a defined theme that are creative and original. Judges will also be looking for sustainable and community oriented sites. Above all, judges will be looking for the coolest camp site in town park!

Get creative, go all out, and make a campsite that is cooler than all others. Just remember to keep it PG, as families do occupy the campground. Also, make sure to label your campsite so we know who we are judging.

What’s in it for you?

If your campsite is creative, original, and picked as the coolest camp site you will receive two 3-Day Passes to the 19^th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival to be held September 14-16, 2012, along with all bragging rights that comes with having the coolest campsite in Telluride.

Second coolest campsite will receive two camping passes to the 19^th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.

The third coolest campsite will receive two Blues & Brews souvenir t-shits.

Winners will be announced Sunday morning on the festival main stage.

Are you up for the challenge? Start preparing now, as this year’s competition is sure to be creative, colorful, fun and fierce. See you next week at the 18^th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Just remember the sky is the limit, your campsite is what you make it and nothing beats a cool campground.