With coming in a few months, it’s about that time of the year when Telluride Town Park starts plotting out the details for its fall festivals.
First up: The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival. Now in its 24th year, the eclectic celebration of music, beer and more has packed a 2017 lineup full of artists new and old that span genres from legacy folk to funk rock.
This year will bring the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood, TajMo (a collaboration of the Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band) and Anders Osborne among the 20 other initially announced acts to the Sept. 15-17 festival. See the initial lineup announcement below.
The festival is also packing a handful of upgrades this year, including a revamped Main Stage and a photography class put on by Rolling Stone’s Barry Brecheisen. For more info on that, check out the .
VIP and early-bird tickets to this year’s Blues & Brews went on sale March 1 and are sold out, but standard weekend passes and late night tickets are on sale now. They run $175 – $500 and are available via . Single-day tickets go on sale June 14.
Bonnie Raitt last performed in Colorado at . The Know’s Colleen Smith wrote this about the show:
Now into the fifth decade of her career, Raitt is arguably the most successful woman in the music business. Since 1971, she’s sold more than 16 million records and garnered 10 Grammys. Rolling Stone included her on its lists of both and of all time (number 50 and 89, respectively).
At Red Rocks, Raitt the Great demonstrated why. The woman could make a crowd cry just by singing the ABCs. Her scalding vocals were especially bewitching on stripped-down torch songs “Angel From Montgomery,” “I Can’t Make You Love Me,” and “Dimming of the Day” — performed as a duet with opener Richard Thompson, who penned the song. And her slide guitar, as Bonnie herself once put it, sounded like bacon smells. That is, good, but with a little guilt.
2017 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival lineup
Bonnie Raitt
Steve Winwood
TajMo: The Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band
Anders Osborne
The Revivalists
Benjamin Booker
The Blind Boys of Alabama
The Magpie Salute
Delbert McClinton Delbert McClinton and Self Made Men
Tab Benoit
The Record Company
Chicano Batman
Samantha Fish
Ben Miller Band
Eric Lindell
Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers
Robert Finley
Alabama Slim
Jack Broadbent
Delgres
Monkey Junk
A.J. Fullerton featuring Stud Ford & Nic Clark
JW Jones Blues Band
Steve Itterly (2016 Telluride Blues Challenge Winner)
