"OK, we get it: sleep as much as you can before the festival, cos there’s no guarantee that it’ll happen while you’re there "
Lol no guarantee is an understatement if your in TP or Warner.
Late Night Dance Party in Warner last year at 3 a.m. rocking 80’s music prior to getting in the tarp line at 5 a.m. and watching Festivarians pick tunes around a monster pot of cowboy coffee is one (of MANY MANY MANY) of the sleep deprived memories that I will always cherish!
And if you get shut out on the ‘Formal’ nightgrass shows, the numerous bars with smaller acts and people all over town pickin’ will keep you entertained! I almost missed the start of 2nd set Emmitt/Nershi late night because I was standing outside during the break and got caught up watching a group of people jammin out front!!
Statelax, I now hold you personally responsible for re-fuelling my total over excitement concerning TBF and Nightgrass in particular
I don’t think I’ll manage to sleep at all anytime around, before, during or after the festival, I can barely keep to me seat right now after the single day line up anouncements…
I’m gonna be on a TBF high all the way till the kick off in june… :thumbsup
im stoked about nightgrass too for sure. especially the yonder show at the sheridan…
and just to be able to hang out in telluride and go to the local bars and restaraunts is gonna be awesome!
i was wondering about wednesday… i heard yonder does a wednesday prekickoff jam or something near the area and was trying to get some info if anyone had some…
Well…Good luck on gettting sheridan YMSB tix, you’ll need it. As for the opening event, last year it was Yonder (hopefully this year too), and it is at the Telluride conference center. This is a great way to kick things off, its a Yonder Concert to open TBF, WOW! This show is all ages and the best part is riding the Gondola up the mountian side to get into Mtn. Village area. The visuals are unbelievable at sunset!!! This is the only show that takes place in Telluride Conference Center and in Mtn. Village.
Miss Lala, I am more then happy to accept the challenge
Last year was my first TBF as well (And I had zero excuses, I have lived in CO my whole life) and it exceeded all expectations I had, truely the best festival I have ever been to (and I have been to alot of them). Once you get down there and settled in it’s hard not to get caught up in the excitement, and it’s worse in Warner/TP because you are ALWAYS surrounded by like minded people who are just as excited to be there.
And I am happy to toss the late night/drinking cap into the mix, I’m a proud Colorado Native but my mother was born in Scotland, so the ‘Lets have fun’ gene is in the blood!!! :cheers
PS - If Railroad Earth or Greensky play Late Shows (Lol One I am positive on) DO NOT MISS THEM FOR ANY REASON AT ALL!!!
Hey Lala, I just read your bio, and I must say that it’s impossible to be over-enthusiastic about your first TBF, it’s worth every ounce of enthusiasm in the world, mine was epic and the best memory of my life still :cheers
“This show is all ages and the best part is riding the Gondola up the mountian side to get into Mtn. Village area”
I was dying last year, Yonder was playing “Granny Won’t You Smoke Some” at the kickoff show and Jeff Austin put the mic infront of some young kid who was singing the entire chorus for the crowd, Jeff gets back on the mic and goes…
“You Ever Watched a Career End?? That was it”
I think that show is flaoting around on bt or the Archive, well worth the time to download!!!
Yeah, that kid was amazing! During the set break he was playing full songs out side and drawing a decent crowd…I stayed and saw him play Raleigh and Spencer, pretty neat
That’s one of our Town Park Camping kids, Sol! He “played” the entire concert with YMSB last year at the Kick-Off Party in Mountian Village.
The first night I met Sol he was poking around outside "The Gov’nor’s Tent (a.k.a A.J.). I told him to go on in and pick. He looked back at me unsure. “Go ahead! Everyone’s welcome to pick around here and you’re part of everyone!” Within one song Sol was calling the tune, calling the key and kicking off the picking circle. IT WAS AWESOME! :lol
By the way… Sol was 10 years old last year at TBF. Hope he’s around this year, FOR SURE! :thumbsup
Aaaaarrgghhh ! Please stop! All of you! I can’t stand it any longer!!!
If I keep on reading people’s posts about how amazing TBF is, I’m simply going to faint of over-excitment !!!
Everybody’s personal experience is so full of enthusiasm and cheer joy that it’s just making me itchy to pack my bag and turn up 3 months early!!
Is there any way around this?!? maybe I should just stop logging in to this forum… But then I’d just miss all you guys!!! this is a really though situation… My own sanity is at stake!
Ya it was pretty cool, Austins entire rant about the kid was awesome, talking about how he saw him out in Cali at a show front row singing as well, and the whole “We are in Telluride, no better and safer place for the young one’s, surrounded by good people, etc” just set a great tone for the night and weekend
Of course his “But not until your Seventeen…ok Sixteen” had the crowd laughing
Lets also not forget we got a bluegrass Slayer song tease out of them as well at that same show, only in Telluride…
The banter here does not do TBF justice by any means. It can only be experiened and not described by mere words. I’ve been going now for 13 years and the pre-fest excitement never goes away. Every year I have to suffer through the planning, the waiting, the slowwww weeks beforehand, the stupid month of May, and the inevitable post-festival blues. It’s horrible. I don’t know why I keep going to the thing.
What you’re not telling us is that we can look forward to developing an addiction for a TBF fix once a year.
We go home, thinking we can cold turkey through the summer, but once the videos and cd’s don’t hit the spot, we’ll come running back for more next year.
Great! Now we’re in for trouble! I’ve got a life to return to you know!
I am greatly concerned that I won’t want to take my old life back after I return home… :rolleyes and suffer from TBF withdrawal symptoms for 12 months…
There is rehab for the withdrawl. It is my Banjo. After my first festival I just had to have a Banjo. I play that thing every free moment I have. Then there are the pictures I am still sorting through all the pictures from last year. All part of the rehab. Aw hell who am I foolin I am a bluegrass addict and there aint no rehabbin me.
