I liked reading this on the Planet’s site regarding TBF tickets:
http://www.bluegrass.com/telluride/
“In 39 years of Telluride Bluegrass, we’ve never seen anything like this… 4-day passes for the 2012 Festival (June 21-24) sold-out on December 25, just 18 days after going on-sale. But lookout for hope: single-day tickets will go on-sale later this winter after the announcement of the complete single-day lineup; and we’ll be re-selling returned 4-day passes on Tuesdays beginning in April.”
Jerry Douglas would be proud!
Thought we’d be reading about Jerry Douglas! :lol
Billy, thanks for posting this. I need to pass this information along! :thumbsup
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green
as the Topic is quite open, those green apples are real good for softening stones, bladder or gall, I’m not sure. And thanks BB, have forwarded said info. around and about.
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Thank you Billy for posting this! :cheers Here’s to hoping!!!
After I posted this (and I think you saw it, but just in case) Planet Bluegrass updated the single day ticket sales:
Our solution - which we have employed for our most in-demand tickets for the past few years - is an online lottery. (After all, even with the most robust online ticketing site, you are essentially participating in a real-time lottery when ordering exceptionally high-demand tickets.)
This TBF single-day lottery will be open from Tuesday, Feb 7 at 12:01am MST thru Thurs, Feb 9 at 11:59pm MST at bluegrass.com.
It has been suggested that we give-in to supply and demand and increase the price of these remaining single-day tickets. We will not be doing that, but instead holding single-day tickets to the same price as last year: $65 per day.
Many Festivarians have been expressing concern about scalpers. Unfortunately, we have no way of distinguishing scalpers from Festivarians (either in a lottery or when purchasing phone/online), so we are adding several anti-scalper measures to this lottery:
- Limit of 1 entry per credit card number
- Each entry may request no more than 2 tickets per day
- Tickets are non-refundable
Because many of you are telling us that you are just looking for 4-day passes, the lottery form will allow you to request either:
- up to two 4-day passes ($260 each)
- up to two single-day tickets for each/any/all of Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun ($65 each)
When we process lottery entries we will fill any tickets on your entry that are still available - e.g. if you requested Fri/Sat/Sun single-day tickets and Fri tix are already sold-out we will sell you Sat/Sun tickets.
If you are only interested in coming all 4 days, you should request 4-day passes; if you would settle for less than all 4 days you should request Thurs/Fri/Sat/Sun single-day tickets (knowing that you may only receive single-day tickets for some of those days).
You may enter anytime on these 3 days with the same chance of being randomly selected. When we begin processing orders, we will randomly sort all entries and begin filling each entry in that randomly assigned order.