Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Partners with Global 1% for the Planet Movement

Telluride Blues & Brews is a Proud Media Partner of the Global 1% for the Planet Movement. Since 2002, 1% for the Planet has encouraged members of the business community to contribute one percent of sales to environment causes. 1% for the Planet exists to build and support an alliance of businesses financially committed to creating a healthy planet.

In early 2009, 1% for the Planet realized that in order for them to build consumer awareness and touch business leaders in new realms, they would need to create a parallel 1% model to complement and build their business network. This new business model would incorporate Media Partners, such as us, Telluride Blues & Brews, to commit at least 1% of their advertising to sharing 1% for the Planet with their audiences.

As a 1% Media Partner, we hope you'll help us build the 1% movement together. For more information and to learn how your business community can take part please visit onepercerntfortheplanet.org.

Here is a beautiful short film about 1% for the Planet presented by friends Felt Soul Media.

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5th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Coolest Campsite Challenge

Greeting Blues & Brews Festivarians. We welcome you to the 19th Telluride weekend of fantastic Music, Brews and Friends! Back by popular demand, we are hosting the 5th ANNUAL CAMPSITE CHALLENGE! Any attendee that is camping at the Festival has the chance to win amazing prizes simply by letting their creative juices flow with NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Three Campsite Challenge Judges will roam the campground throughout the Festival weekend to pick First, Second, and Third prize winners. All winners will be announced Sunday morning from the Main Stage.

Judges will determine the “Coolest Campsite” based on creativity, originality and quality. Blues & Brews also encourages that sustainability and community be considered in your campsites. So get funky, get your camping tickets and get to it! Thank you to all who have participated in past years and good luck!

The following COOLEST CAMPSITE CHALLENGE rules must be upheld in order to qualify for a prize:

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").

COOLEST CAMPSITE CHALLENGE PRIZES-

1st Place Winner - Two 3-Day passes to the 2013 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
2nd Place Winner - Two Camping Passes for the 2013 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival
3rd Place Winner - Two t-shirts from the 2012 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival


                                                       LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

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Warren Haynes, More to Join Phil Lesh at Telluride

Warren Haynes, More to Join Phil Lesh at Telluride

New Anders Osborne & Friends Show Added, Sun. Sept 16 at the Sheridan Opera House - SOLD OUT!

The 19th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is proud to announce the "Fais Do-Do" (Cajun Dance Party), a special closing performance featuring Anders Osborne and Friends with Alvin Lee and Rossevelt Collier from The Lee Boys, Tab Benoit, plus Special Guests. This intimate weekend performance happens at the Historic Sheridan Opera House on Sunday, September 16th at 10:30pm.

Tickets for the Fais Do-Do are SOLD OUT! For more information or to purchase tickets online click here.

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New Juke Joint Venue Added, 3-day and Sunday Tickets Going Fast, Bal de Masion Tickets On Sale and More

Limited Festival Tickets Available  

Saturday Single Day tickets are now SOLD OUT, with limited quantities of 3-day passes, and Friday and Sunday Single Day passes available. Sunday tickets are $65 each, Friday tickets are $55 each and 3-day passes are $170 each. Don't wait to purchase, as tickets are selling faster than in previous years.

For more information or to purchase tickets click here.

New Juke Joint Venue Added

A newly added Juke Joint venue was added this week located on the SE corner of Willow and Main Street, and conveniently named The Main Street Tent (insert chuckle). We'll see ya there!

For an updated Juke Joint Schedule, click here

Bal de Maison Kick-off Show On Sale Now

Blues & Brews is proud to announce San Diego Blues/Rock duo Little Hurricane for the Bal de Maison, our exclusive weekend opening performance at the Historic Sheridan Opera House on Thursday, Sept. 13th at 9:00pm.
Limited tickets for the Bal de Maison are $20.00 and are currently on sale now at Tellurideblues.com or by phone at (866) 515-6166.

Camping

SELL OUT ALERT! Camping passes for the Festival weekend are almost SOLD OUT. Camping is located in Telluride Town Park adjacent to the festival grounds, and is a beautiful, natural campground located between the San Miguel River and Bear Creek.

Festival 4-day camping passes are $40 per person, starting Thursday, September 13. All Camping passes are sold per person, and not per site. Space is "first-come, first-served," and campers at Town Park have access to showers and permanent bathrooms throughout the weekend.

For more information or to purchase tickets click here.

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Last Chance to Enter-to-WIN a VIP Trip to Telluride Blues & Brews Festival!

Love Telluride? Love beer? Love music? Love Blues & Brews? We've teamed up with Horny Toad, Paste Magazine, Telluride Alpine Lodging and Osprey for your chance to win an all inclusive VIP trip to the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival.

You read that right! Enter to win a VIP trip to the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival for two! It's as awesome as it sounds! Grand prize winner gets:

• Two $500 Horny Toad gift cards
• Airfare for two
• Two 3-day VIP Blues and Brews Festival passes
• Festival weekend lodging package for two at the Aspen street Inn
• One iPod Nano
• Two Osprey Packs
• Two 1-year subscriptions to Paste Magazine
• Other great treats to make your Blues and Brews weekend absolutely perfect

 

To Enter to Win, Click here

 

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The Official 2012 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Poster

Lennie Jones is our featured poster artist for 2012. With a background in music, Lennie began playing professionally in 1965, and in the late 60's his band was pursued by none other than Frank Zappa who wanted to sign them to his record label. Opening for the original Canned Heat, shakin’ hands with Muddy Waters, Bill Monroe, Bill Graham, seein’ the immortal Jimmy Reed and giggin’ for Zappa further solidified his love of playing, hearing and living the Blues. Lennie's music career later morphed into the art world as a painter of the Blues.

We commissioned Lennie to put his distinct Blues spin on the 2012 Telluride Blues & Brews Commemorative Poster continuing our Blues focus poster tradition we have held close for so many years. Renowned for his large-scale, hand-painted Blues focused images, and his primitive style leads some to categorize his artwork as "outsider art," a term attributed to French artist Jean Dubuffet, who coined the phrase Art Brut to describe art that is raw and pure, without the countless layers of training and cultural sophistication that afflicts most mainstream art.

Lennie describes himself in this very fashion saying, "I am an outsider artist, a primitive self-taught painter of the holistic Blues experience." He goes on to describe himself further, "I have thrived in the mysterious and primitive wilderness, very happy, healthy, and blessed with a timeless source of spiritual inspiration to my art, heart and soul...An’ the music never left me."

Returning to the Festival for his third year as our poster artist, Lennie Jones presents to you, Blues Burn. Posters will be available for purchase in the Merchandise Tent during the festival and Lennie will be in person for poster signing daily at 2pm.

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