England’s little roots band with big pop hooks, Mumford & Sons, will return to Colorado’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival this summer, the band announced last week.
The band has taken off since we first wrote about them in March 2009. The group’s excellent debut, “Sigh No More,” is nearing the 750,000-sales mark. And by the time the festival in southwestern Colorado rolls around — June 16-19 — they’ll likely be a platinum-selling band.
“Last summer,” the band wrote on its site, “Mumford & Sons packed up their instruments and headed for the mountains of Telluride, where they played what was, for them, one of their most memorable festival experiences as a band so far.”
The admiration is reciprocated.
“It only took me a couple spins of the Mumford & Sons CD, ‘Sigh No More,’ to conclude it was the best thing I’d heard in 20 years,” said Telluride Bluegrass boss Craig Ferguson. “We haven’t repeated a band in 10 years, but this was obvious.”
Mumford & Sons will play Telluride on June 19. Check out video of the band playing “Awake My Soul,” featuring bluegrass hero Jerry Douglas on banjo, at last year’s Telluride Bluegrass at Reverb: .
