anyone is allowed into telluride, you just cant get into town park. i know lots of people who just go for elks park, and nightgrass. not a bad deal if you dont have the funds for the main stage.
i dont think PB, or my wallet, would really want to pay to barricade the entire canyon from non ticket holders.
Not true. There is a barricade before you get into town… You may be able to get through with just Night Grass tix but I believe you need to have TBF tix, proof that you are a local or a special barricade pass that is issued with hotel rooms…
Because of today’s technology, scalpers from all over the world can buy and sell these tickets.
Bring back the 3x5 index card. I will help sort and recycle the envelopes.
And by help sort I mean ensure my index card finds the appropriate pile 
Also still a big fan of a box office at the ranch for us psuedo-locals. Maybe a temporary window at Oscars? :cheers
While this is true regarding vehicles, anyone can walk/bike into town … or park in the village and take the gondola in to town.
jpec is correct about folks in the region trying to experience what they can when they can. Not saying this is what you are saying, but I don’t believe these people should be penalized because there is more general interest in the festival for those who are able to get away for 4 days.
Right, I was just thinking about people driving in. I always forget about parking at Mountain Village…
I’ve never understood this argument too well. Unless you were a local you’re already in camping, nightgrass, and travel fees. It seems kinda stupid to plan a trip down to the festival without some mainstage investments, or am I alone on this one? I get that peoples pocketbooks are hurting but at $185 four day passes for Telluride ais one of the best deals around.
a lot of the pressure would be alleviated by, (1) only releasing 1 show at a time instead of a flood of all shows at once. and,(2) release a limited number of tix at one time, say 25% Tuesday morning at 9:00 25% Tuesday night at 9:00 and so on. that way you don’t overwhelm the system and those that can’t be there online for a 1 shot deal will have ample opportunity for there chance at the shows.
as for the bands announcing on there tour pages? I would think the Planet would be able to control that as part of the bands contract. all the bands know that all the nightgrass shows will sell out, so there is no need for them to advertise .
I don’t do the nightgrass shows anymore, I find that all day on the main stage and then a full night of town park debauchery is much more my style.
i dunno Rick, i think we’d just overwhelm the system for longer
This is really a great use for something like the Amazon or Google cloud services. After all, planet Bluegrass has very low server/bandwidth needs most of the year, relative to what happens at these “on Sale” times. With a properly designed infrastructure, it could all be hosted on cloud servers, and when they know these spikes are coming they could go from a couple of machines to a couple of hundred machines for a few hours, and have the massive Amazon or Google infrastructure backing them up.
I’m sure Craig has a top-notch web guy working for him, and I’m equally sure that they’ll be having a conversation about how to better handle these things in the future. I’d like them to explore this as 1 possible solution.
Yes, I don’t just play a geek on TV, i really am one :lol
~Jeff
I haven’t used cloud services yet professional, so this is just a conjecture, but it might be difficult to implement a secure payment gateway using a cloud. That stuff has to be hosted in a DMZ.
Yeah, all I was writing about was the fact that, during the half hour of the process, I had then suddenly didn’t have tickets, or would suddenly have to start the process all over again. It was frustrating, to say the least.
I really like the idea of all tickets being will called. That would take care of a lot of scalping, but also open up other problems for PB (what happens if a legitimate problem happens for a REAL PERSON buyer).
The best situation would be a bigger server, but then again, who’s gonna pay for that - eventually US!
I’ve given this a lot of thought since first reading it, and i just disagree. i think it’s completely the band’s perogative to decide if it’s just another show or not, and i think it would be disloyal of them to keep a date from their regular fans to pander to TBF fans (though with Yonder, at least, it’s pretty much the same fans). I don’t really know that this is a problem anyway. some people may buy tickets blindly, but even assuming there is a significant number of folks who first learn about TBF from the Mumford website, they are still likely to find out what goes into attending that show–in other words, not attend it unless they are invested in the full TBF experience–it’s not cheap or easy to access afterall. to the extent these bands’ non-publication might limit scalping–scalpers will find out anyway. I don’t know; I’ve never been the biggest champion of the free market, but i am in this case. plus, i’ve come up just to see Yonder before, so i don’t see much wrong with it. :evil
I don’t see much wrong with it either, except for the fact that Nightgrass tickets are now not available to many of the folks that had full intent of being at TBF… last year… but the scalpers, opportunist and quite a few folks that don’t have a place to stay in and around TBF do have tickets.
Care to join me and see how it all plays out this year and revisit this topic at a later date? I’m thinking box office in T’ride for Nightgrass might come up as an idea to toss around, but right now let’s just concentrate on packin’ and get on with the party we do have available access to this year! :thumbsup
Oh, and if you know of a camping ticket available, there is a nice young man by the name of Ben on Trampled By Turtles Facebook Page looking for one. Not sure he understood he needs a festi-ticket also so I left a little note there about the forest service campgrounds. Gosh, after all that free camping I hope he at least buys a T’ride t-shirt while in town along with that band t-shirt! :thumbsup
Auntie Hope :festivarian2 :green
“PB should make NIghtgrass tickets “will call” only. That would cut down greatly on scalping and then people wouldn’t tie up all the tickets for shows they don’t plan on attending.”
I agree. I got shut out of the Nightgrass lottery for RRE at the Sheridan this year, the only one I really wanted to go to. I understand that some people enter the Nightgrass lottery just so they can hold the tickets to trade later for other things. In other words, they didn’t ever really intend to go see the shows for which they entered the lottery.
A “will call” ticket sale situation would actually work much better for everyone, including the bands. The bands would rather have The Sheridan full of diehard fans like me who might not have anything left to trade to others who won the tickets in the lottery. :cheers
Sorry but most of these ‘ideas’ are pretty selfish and not good at all (release 25% of tickets per day? Really? ;)) No matter what the system is that’s in place it’s called adapting and dealing with it. No use wasting time bitching and moaning about it. Lottery? Get all your friends to enter. No lottery? You better get online at the top of the hour and work it. I do like the will call only possibility.
PB’s main goal is for everyone to have an excellent time, while ensuring selling out as much of the festival as possible. Looks like both will be attained this year, and by the looks of this lineup, it’s gonna be a hell of a time!
Still looking for town park tickets here! :wave :flower