STOP! Do not encourage and stroke this too far! They may watch us squirm longer! I have hives over here! And I thought Robert Plant was the only guy on the planet that could make this girl squeal.
Now thereās yet another group of guy/gals that can do the same. Stop PBG, pure torture. They love this stuff.
I would say if there was a scale for excitement 1 being low and 10 being the high, we are now at the 10.5 mark :cheers
The possibilities for the lineup this year is pretty big. And AK could show cause she was just so short and sweet last, soooo never know and I stopped checking announcments and tour dates for my fav pics cause I know how to party. PBG nice, slow and steady she goes. But stop, you know we know you know :lol :medal
Alison Krauss will be in Missoula, MT on June 17 and in Nampa, ID on June 19 so thereās still a chance she could be in Telluride on the 21st. :thumbsup
More importantly, I hope Alisonās schedule doesnāt mean Jerry will only be there on Sunday. Iāll take Jerry being there for the whole fest sitting in with everyone over an Alison set, good as that is. And I actually prefer not to see her close the festātoo mellow for the finale. Iām happy seeing her play every few years at the fest.
I wonder if there may not be any more huge names to add, and thatās fine. Itās a stellar lineup already. Whoever fills out the lineup is just icing on the cake, gravy, call it what you will; that magic Festivation dustā¦
Counting down the days. As always, Telluride Tom, thanks for the countdown clock!
Leftover Salmon and John Butler are really the only apparent headlines thus far,
with the House Band headling Sunday. IMO we will see another 6 or 7 artists
bringing the total to around 27 or 28 total artists.
With that being said I can envision a pretty big name to lead into the House Band
on Sunday? Robert Plant? (we know it wonāt be Ray La who cares!)
and my pick purley because of the proximity to the festival the week before will be
Mumford closing out Thursday for the Solstice.
But what do I know?
Im just a GRASSHOPPER!
:lol :lol :lol
:cheers
I cant wait til June!!!
and September! Just got the initial line up for Pickin in The Pines in Flagstaff.
Ricky Skaggs and KentuckY Thunder
as well as the Stringdusters!
WHOOP WHOOP
You are in big trouble buster! We want Alison, we want Alison. Look, you can have Willie ( seen him heaps, he plays here a lot) but have NEVER seen AK and really, really want to. Now stop it, get on the AK express please. :cheers
I think Mumford too but I also think the Basement Tapes crewā¦we need another great female as well. Actually, it looks pretty fantastic already. Cannot wait to see some of these bands for the first time. This is building up to be one of the highlights of the decade. Thanks TBGF festival crew :flower
Ps it is Valentineās Day here so that would be a nice day to send Grasshopper the gift of another name :lol
The Basement Tapes crew would be interesting and Iāll be surprised if we see that. Just too much hype around it. I think it may be unlikely for the same reason they didnāt get the Goat Rodeo sessions. Though Iām sure Rhiannon will do some stuff from those sessions. And thatās okay. The fest doesnāt need the craziness that comes with the huge thing of the moment. Maybe in a few years they can bring Mumford back after the hype around them has really died downāand if they come out with a new CD that doesnāt sound exactly like what theyāve done alreadyāI loved loved the first CD, and the second one sounded so exactly the same I hardly listened to it. The first year was great, then they got too big to be good for the fest.
Iāll be surprised if Plant does the fest again. It worked the year he played because of the lineup he was touring with then.
When I think of headliners, I think the set before the late setāexcept for Sunday when the final set starts a bit earlier, and often in recent years has gone to the House Band.
For the late show the other nights, Leftover and John Butler are good guesses. Greensky could certainly keep us awake for a late set, but they seem to like playing during the day (of course, up till a few years ago, Salmon often had an afternoon set; itās just the last few years theyāve become a fixture in the late slot). The third late set is probably someone yet to be announced.
Love the activity on the forum today! Lucky Friday the 13th! Iām ready for Festival!
I find the classification of headliner to be an interesting one. For instance, in 2012, Leftover Salmon closed out Friday Night, but Iād consider John Fogerty was the Friday night headliner.
Under the idea that the headliner is always the closing act, that would mean that in different years, Gaelic Storm and Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros both headlined over Sam Bush.
I would wager that The House Band will close out Sunday night and Leftover Salmon will close out Saturday night. I wouldnāt be surprised to see Cooder, Skaggs and White close out Thursday. Iām not terribly familiar with The John butler Trio, but they do appear to be quite the popular act, so they could possibly close out Thursday, as well, or possibly even Friday.
Greensky did a great job closing out Thursday night at String Summit last summer, but I donāt expect them to close out a night at Telluride quite yet.
As for Salmon, theyāve had a closing set every year theyāve played since my first festival in 2008. I think the Vince Herman, Drew Emmit and friends set in 2007 was an afternoon set, though.
Iāve seen Allison a few times, and, to be quite honest, while it was always a good show, it never blew me away. Willie Nelson, however, did blow me away the one time Iāve seen him. He may come to Australia a ton, but heās rarely in Montana. Plus, heāll be 82 this summer, so he may not be touring too much longer. Allison still has several decades left in her.
H Sug - I have to agree with most of what you say. Willieās always a great show and this national treasure NEEDS to be seen.
And Iāve been lucky enough to see AKUS many times, too. Sometimes she gets a little mellow for meā¦
HOWEVERā¦
The night she played a duet with Bobby McFerrin at TBF was truly one of the most amazing concert experiences Iāve had in my life. At one point, AK and BF had 10,000 people absolutely still. You could hear a pin drop. And their voices were bouncing up and down the valley in a perfect reverb. Truly stunning.
Note: Sorry John, but I had to correct this so your message was outside the original quote. Telluride Tom
Willie, Allison & Jerry Douglas are all playing together this summer. Just saw a CA show announced in July.
Would love all 3 to come to Telluride this year.
Listening to Prairie Home with Chris, Jerry, and Rhiannon, itās like a Festival preview!
I think awhile ago someone here said Willie Nelson was playing in Montana during the Fest. Right now his tour page http://willienelson.com/tour/
shows him open all of June. I think a stop in Telluride would be the perfect way to fill his schedule. To see him on stage with Jerry and Alison, well, hey, weāre already in paradise, so why not.
Interesting. On Alisonās page she has Jerry listed as playing with her on the 17th and 19th. On Jerryās own page, http://www.jerrydouglas.com/performances.cfm, he has listed being at Telluride all four days of the Fest. So who knows. Alison and Willie could come down and be in Telluride by Saturday night.
Not sure what you meant by āa lockā ā Itās pretty clear to me that Jerryās website is not as recently updated as Alisonās; even Willieās doesnāt have all of those dates yet. Willie, Alison, or just Jerry, Iām pretty sure none of them will be there on the 19th, at least, and I assume the AKUS/Willie tour will grow, as well, which could out Jerry unavailable on other dates. This conflict has happened before, if I remember right, where Jerry was just there Sunday - he sat in a few times and performed with the House Band.
Edit: I might be thinking about Bela a couple years ago, when Juno was born, but similar situation where he could only be there one day.
