2013 is just around the corner, which means it’s time to start talking logistics. Hopefully, you already have your tent and ride to Telluride taken care of (unless you live there, in which case I’m sure you’ve got everything figured out in this world), but do you know when your favorite band takes the stage?
If not, don’t fret: the schedule for the 40th annual Telluride Bluegrass festival has been released. You can check it out below or at the .
The action starts at about 10 a.m. each day — except Thursday —, where gates and showtimes will be pushed ahead an hour, presumably to give the weekend warriors time to get settled. Come about midnight, it’s back to your tent, save for Dispatch, running through 12:30 a.m., and a star-studded Telluride House Band closing things up Sunday evening at 10:30 p.m.
All this hootin’ and hollerin’ starts June 20, of course.
Look for Reverb’s guide to this year’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival in the coming days.
Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2013:
Thursday, June 20
10am — Gates Open
11am – 12pm — Chris Thile
12:15 – 1:30pm — Elephant Revival
1:45 – 2:45pm — The Milk Carton Kids
3 – 4:15pm — Greensky Bluegrass
4:30 – 5:45pm — Steep Canyon Rangers
6:15 – 7:30pm — Richard Thompson
8 – 9:30pm — Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
10 – 11:30pm — Mumford & Sons
Friday, June 21
9am — Gates Open
9:45 – 10:45am — Sarah Jarosz
11am – 12pm — Lake Street Dive
12:30 – 1:45pm — Tim O’Brien
2 – 3:15pm — Trampled by Turtles
3:45 – 5pm — Peter Rowan’s Twang an’ Groove
5:30 – 6:45pm — Punch Brothers
7:15 – 8:45pm — The String Cheese Incident
9:15 – 10:30pm — The Masters of Bluegrass featuring Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks, and Jerry McCoury
11pm – 12:30am — Dispatch
Saturday, June 22
9am — Gates open
10 – 11am — Band contest finals
11:15 – 12:15pm — BlueBilly Grit
12:45 – 1:45pm — Sara Watkins
2:15 – 3:30pm — Jerry Douglas Band
4 – 5:30pm — Yonder Mountain String Band
5:45 – 6pm — Telluride Troubadour
6:15 – 7:30pm — Feist
8 – 10pm — Sam Bush Band
10:30pm – 12am — Leftover Salmon
Sunday, June 23
9am — Gates open
10 – 11am — The Drepung Monks
11:15 – 12:15pm — Béla Fleck
12:45 – 2pm — The Infamous Stringdusters
2:30 – 3:45pm — Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy
4:15 – 5:45pm — Hot Rize
6:15 – 7:45pm — Jackson Browne
8:30 – 10:30pm — Telluride House Band featuring Sam, Béla, Jerry, Edgar, Bryan & Stuart
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Dylan Owens is Reverb’s indie and bluegrass blogger. You can read more from him in Relix magazine and the comment sections of WORLDSTARHIPHOP.
