Telluride Bluegrass Festival

Jamestown Revival plays at the Belly Up Aspen on June 30, 2019, in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Colorado’s best mountain towns for live music fans

By Tiney Ricciardi

September 1, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

From Aspen to Telluride, these towns bring the beats year-round.

Lake Street Dive collaborated with other musicians on the Telluride Bluegrass Festival lineup to reimagine its funky hit 鈥淧arty on the Roof鈥� as a bluegrass tune. The band performed June 20, 2025. (Provided by Anthony Verkuillen)

Bluegrass bands would ‘mud wrestle each other’ to play this ‘dream gig’ every year

By Tiney Ricciardi

June 26, 2025 at 9:49 a.m.

Mountain views, rabid fans and airborne marshmallows are just a few things to love about...

Puppy yoga comes to the Stanley Marketplace in Aurora this month. (Provided by Westfield Company)

Puppy yoga, Juneteenth Music Festival and more things to do this weekend

By John Wenzel

June 12, 2025 at 7:50 a.m.

Your best bets also include the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Juneteenth and a 1940s ball.

EDM artist Of The Trees performs at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Nov. 12, 2023. (Provided by Colin Webb Media)

Two-night EDM concert coming to Telluride in August

By Tiney Ricciardi

April 14, 2025 at 4:31 p.m.

The Telluride valley will be alive with the sound of electronic dance music this summer...

Members of the Long Jon bluegrass band perform during the opening day of the 50th Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Town Park in Telluride, Colo.,Thursday, June 15, 2023. (William Woody, Special to The Denver Post)

For the first time in a while, Telluride Bluegrass Festival still has tickets available

By Tiney Ricciardi

January 16, 2025 at 8:15 a.m.

If Telluride Bluegrass Festival has been on your bucket list, there鈥檚 still a way to...

Telluride Bluegrass Festival, pictured here in 2017, and its owner Craig Ferguson on Friday were named in a Boulder County lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and retaliation against a former employee. (Denver Post file)

Planet Bluegrass owner accused of sexually harassing, terrorizing former employee

By John Wenzel

August 7, 2023 at 5:36 p.m.

Planet Bluegrass owns and produces events such as Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass Festival and the...

A Mountain Trip guide takes in the view at sunset from the Telluride Via Ferrata in Telluride, Colo., June 24, 2023. Well known for its ski resort, this mountain town in southwestern Colorado attracts plenty of summer and fall visitors, too. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)

A perfect weekend in Telluride

By The New York Times News Service Syndicate

July 20, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Here's how to have the perfect summer weekend in Telluride, Colorado, from hiking to restaurant...

Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, the husband and wife duo performs with their band during the opening day of the 50th Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Town Park in Telluride, Colo.,Thursday, June 15, 2023. (William Woody, Special to The Denver Post)

PHOTOS: 50th Anniversary of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival

By William Woody

June 15, 2023 at 5:57 p.m.

Thousands of bluegrass music fans from around Colorado, the United States and the world assembled...