Nestled in the rugged San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, set forJune 18-21, 2026, is not only an iconic representation of all kinds of music, but a place of awe inspiring beauty; somewhere you can dance under the sun (and rain) and embrace your truest self. The 2026 lineup is yet to be announced but Telluride Bluegrass tickets go on sale Dec. 11 at shop.bluegrass.com and they are sure to sell out quickly!
Learn more at https://bluegrass.com/telluride.
Organizers for the WinterWonderGrass Festival have unveiled the lineup for the festival’s return to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, from Feb. 27 to March 1, 2026.
The 13th annual festival will feature performances from 30 celebrated acts, including Americana fusion trio The Devil Makes Three, two-decade progressive bluegrass trailblazers The Infamous Stringdusters and Leftover Salmon, the Colorado-native jam legends and returning festival favorites.
WinterWonderGrass’ stacked bill highlights some of today’s most inventive folk, bluegrass, jamgrass, Americana and roots performers, including Colorado’s own “transcendental folk” troupe Elephant Revival, Nashville-based axeman and company Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, acclaimed singer-songwriter and mandolin master Sierra Hull, among many others. The 2026 artists in residence will be Andy Frasco, AJ Lee, Tyree Woods and Lindsay Lou, the latter of whom also held the role in 2025.
In keeping with its longtime custom, WinterWonderGrass will return with two core surprise-packed supergroup performances: WinterWonderWomen and Pickin’ On The Dead, led by Dark Star Orchestra’s Rob Eaton. Other standouts booked for the three-day celebration include Mountain Grass Unit, Moontricks, Clay Street Unit and Chaparelle.
For tickets and more information, visit https://winterwondergrass.com.
| Important Dates January 6 – All WinterWonderGrass Prices Increase January 20 – Grass After Dark On Sale |
The 53rd annual RockyGrass Festival 2025 is set for July 25-27. Very limited tickets and camping are still available! Located in Lyons, Colorado, RockyGrass is traditional bluegrass at its finest. Red rock cliffs and ottonwoods peer down over the property as the North St. Vrain River flows through the festival grounds just feet from the main stage.
Volunteers are still needed! Join the awesome community of volunteers! Work three shifts in exchange for your Festival pass.
Continue readingTelluride Bluegrass Festival tickets went on sale earlier this month for the 52nd event which will take place June 19-22 in Town Park and are nearly sold out. Camping at Town Park is sold out. Planet Bluegrass typically puts refunded tickets up for resale each spring. For more information on one of the nation’s longest-running and most prestigious music festivals, visit https://bluegrass.com/telluride.
From the good folks at Planet Bluegrass:
Dearest Festivarians,
Today, the sun will reach its minimum declination across the sky, leading us into the longest night of the year. The winter solstice marks a moment of quiet stillness on Planet Bluegrass—a time when the world seems to pause around us, holding its breath in anticipation of the return of light. Personally, we have a time-tested strategy for brightening the darkest day of the year…
Out of the darkness, a Bluegrass lineup takes shape! It’s a solstice tradition, you know? Take a look!
This year’s lineup has an historic amount of Telluride debuts, as well as return performances from folks who haven’t made their way to the box canyon in years. We’re in for such a treat! You can find more information (including which day each artist is playing) on our website here.
Single day, 4-day, and camping passes are still available online! It’s time to solidify your summer solstice plans.
Buy Telluride Bluegrass Passes & Camping at this link
The countdown is officially on… See you in 181 days!
A friendly reminder that today, Dec. 6, is your LAST CHANCE to pre-register for the Telluride Bluegrass Festival pre-sale.
Pre-registration closes at 11:59 p.m. MT tonight! You can find all the information about this process on the Planet Bluegrass website here.
Remember that if you aren’t approved, or if you choose not to buy tickets, your $10 pre-reg payment will be refunded. You’ll receive an email on Monday if you’ve been approved!
| From the good folks at Planet Bluegrass: You can find the single-day full lineups for Folks Fest, Aug. 9-11, in Lyons, Colorado, online here. |
| Calling all volunteers…We are in search of some more dedicated folks to join our volunteer cohort! We probably sound like a broken record raving about our volunteers so much, but we really have such a blast. We hope you join us! Apply to volunteer |
| And songwriters, too! You have until May 19 to submit your original song into our Songwriter Showcase. You can catch last year’s winner, Cindy Kalmenson, on the Main Stage on Aug. 10. We can’t wait to hear your music! Submit a song |
| If you’re interested In purchasing tickets for the 51st Telluride Bluegrass Festival in June 2024, listen up because this year’s process is going to be different. From the good TBF Festavarians: In order to buy tickets in the general on-sale on Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. (MST), you will need to be pre-registered. Let us repeat that for the people in the back: you will need to be pre-registered to buy TBF tickets on Dec. 7. “This pre-registration process will allow us to screen out known scalpers before they can buy tickets (thus getting tickets only into the hands of true Festivarians!).” |
| Go to shop.bluegrass.com anytime between 12:00p on Tuesday, November 14th and 11:59p on Tuesday, November 28th. Click “Get Tickets” on the “Telluride Bluegrass 2024 Pre-Registration” event. Note: this is not an actual event! Select one (1) $10 TBF Pre-Registration “ticket” from the dropdown and proceed through the entire purchase process. Note: this is not an actual ticket! Why $10? The idea of charging $10 to “pre-reg” is that it will discourage those who aren’t fully committed to attending the Festival as well as those who are too committed (aka scalpers) to acquiring tickets to re-sell. We hope that true Festivarians won’t mind contributing $10 to offset the carbon footprint of the Festival while achieving these goals. Going through this process and making the purchase allows us to collect some of your information, specifically email address, shipping address, and the last four digits of your credit card. Having this info will enable us to enforce a couple rules which are: You can only purchase one pre-registration per email address and credit card. You can only use two email addresses per shipping address. Once the Pre-Registration window closes on 11/28, our partners at See Tickets will perform a scalper screening and disqualify the email addresses of known scalpers as well as the email addresses of those who broke either of the above rules. On or before 12/6, we will notify you via email letting you know whether or not your email address was accepted. Be sure to check your spam folder. PLEASE NOTE: Pre-registration does not guarantee you tickets to the Festival! As for the $10 it costs to pre-register, one of three things will happen: If you are accepted and purchase tickets, your $10 will go towards offsetting the carbon footprint of the Festival. If you are accepted and aren’t able to purchase tickets, your $10 will be refunded to the card you used to make the original purchase. If you are rejected for any reason, your $10 will not be refunded but go towards offsetting the Festival’s carbon footprint. On the morning of Thursday December 7th, Planet Bluegrass will send an email to all approved pre-registrants with the password which will allow you into the actual Telluride Bluegrass Festival event pages. They will be found at shop.bluegrass.com. You can find all the nitty gritty pre registration and on-sale details here. |
Sam Bush loves North Carolina. And gauging from the roar of the appreciative crowd of some 200 souls gathered at the Cat’s Cradle live music venue in downtown Carrboro on Saturday night, North Carolina loves Sam Bush and company, and in this particular instance, the Sam Bush Band.
“It don’t get no better than to play in North Carolina,” Bush said from the stage.
His fans agree. “As always, Sam and band were amazing,” commented Rick Henderson of Raleigh. “No two shows are the same, but they’re all terrific.” Continue reading
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