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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024: What You Need To Know

Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024
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  • Riley is a Senior Country Music Journalist for Country Thang Daily, known for her engaging storytelling and insightful coverage of the genre.
  • Before joining Country Thang Daily, Riley developed her expertise at Billboard and People magazine, focusing on feature stories and music reviews.
  • Riley has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Belmont University, with a minor in Cultural Studies.
Festival Title:Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024
Festival Duration:June 20-23, 2024
Venue:Telluride Town Park in Telluride, Colorado
Performers Include:Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, Sam Bush Band, The Infamous Stingdusters, Charley Crockett, and more
Ticket Information:Get Your Tickets Here

Kicking off Colorado’s summertime on June 20—until the 23rd—is the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, which will be held at the Telluride Town Park in Telluride, Colorado. And it’s armed with a heavy set of bluegrass names, starting off with Grammy-winning musician Billy Strings, who will be opening the four-day fest with singer-songwriter and virtuoso mandolin player Chris Thile. News of Strings joining the line-up was definitely an unexpected but very welcomed addition. 

Blues singer Charley Crockett will be leading the first day’s main stage, while the progressive acoustic/bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters will be taking over the second day. For the weekend party, they invited GRAMMY award-winning multi-instrumentalist and King of Newgrass Sam Bush and the band, as well as an equally iconic and eccentric literary Texas troubadour Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. 

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The festival, which has been around since 1973, has made its name in the music festival community. It’s established its reputation for its star-studded, larger-than-life artist roster. On its golden anniversary in the previous year, it had Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, The String Cheese Incident, Bela Fleck and The Fleckstones, and Emmylou Harris with Watchhouse. This year’s headliners, The Infamous Stringdusters and Sam Bush Band, also graced the stage then. 

The Line-up – Who’s Singing at Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024

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It’s fifty-plus one — Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2024 is celebrating its 51st with another set of ‘virtuosic bluegrass superpickers, soulful songwriters, and some of the most inspiring artists in the rootsy Americana landscape worldwide.’

Thursday, June 20th

Charley Crockett
Madison Cunningham
Telluride House Band (feat. Sam, Béla, Jerry, Edgar, Bryan, & Stuart)
Big Richard
The Langan Band
Sierra Hull
Danny Paisley & The Southern Grass
Chris Thile and Billy Strings

Friday, June 21st

The Infamous Stringdusters
Elephant Revival
Leftover Salmon
As We Speak: Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, feat. Rakesh Chaurasia
AJ Lee & Blue Summit
Chatham County Line
The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
Larry & Joe

Saturday, June 22nd

Sam Bush Band
Sierra Ferrell
Telluride Troubadour
Punch Brothers
Ocie Elliot
The Lil Smokies
Sistastrings
The Fretliners
Band Contest Finals

Sunday, June 23rd

Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
Jerry Douglas & Tommy Emmanuel
Ripe
Mighty Poplar
Peter Rowan
The Sensational Barnes Brothers

Festival Essentials & Insider Tips

Telluride Bluegrass Festival usually sells out fast, but you’re lucky. There are still seats left out of the 12,000 capacity of the venue per day! 

Passes are available for single-day entry ($130) and four-day entry ($395). Children 12 and under are free with a paying adult. Take note that these are tickets to the festival only and don’t include camping. Additionally, each customer is restricted to a 16-ticket limit. 

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But if you’re planning to stay, camp, and enjoy the whole four days in the area, you can opt to purchase tickets bundled with camping. Unfortunately, as of writing, there’s only one package available – Mary E Ilium ($485) – out of the three packages (Town Park Camping and Warner Field Camping are both sold out already). It includes a four-day pass and a camping tent for one (1) person. Should you choose to bring a vehicle to the campground, you must secure a separate vehicle pass. The camp is located 7 miles west of the town of Telluride in the Ilium Valley, accessible by a free festival shuttle. 

For more info, tune in to their official website at Telluride Bluegrass Festival

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