It once was just a little mircrowbrew festival in the middle of town, a handful of regional brewers and the local favorite band String Cheese Incident. Today, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival has grown up to a mature, Town Park filler at 14 years old.
Blues & Brews invites back more than 20 of the hottest blues, funk, gospel and soul musicians to the Town Park main stage for a three-day music and libations fest. More than 7,000 festivarians will pass through the Town Park gates this weekend to see less tradtional blues bands like the Black Crowes, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Los Lonely Boys and Tishamingo, and rootsy blues bands like Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, and Rhythm Council with Henry Butler.
The mix of old blues with the new is no mistake. Longtime local, festival founder and director Steve Gumble mixes it up on purpose, always throwing in a few twists alongside the traditional blues favorites.
And it wouldn't be a brew fest without a blowout brew tasting. Fifty mircrobreweries are setting up kegs of the best of their brews in the center of Town Park on Saturday. Grab a glass and meander the tents for selective sips of brews while catching the acts on the main stage. Be warned...the tasty brews go down easy at the beautiful high alpine setting in Town Park.
Cheers!
Check out this weekend's schedule here.
Honeyboy Edwards
Great to see the original blues of Honeyboy Edwards on stage. The last living man who played with Robert Johnson.
As if that weren't enough, that mandolin player, Dave Andersen, was something else. Blending with Honeyboy and Michael Frank.... It was a memorable moment!
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