Main stage at Telluride Bluegrass 2009
Telluride Bluegrass Festival is held annually in Telluride, Colorado by Planet Bluegrass. Although traditionally the festival focuses on bluegrass music, it often features music from a variety of genres. In 1974, its first year, it attracted 1000 participants. Currently the festival's attendance is capped at 10,000. According to the Library of Congress, the 1980 performance was filmed by Boulder public television and two CDs were made available.
Notable performers have included Johnny Cash, Robert Plant, Bill Monroe, Nanci Griffith, Mark O'Conner, Dixie Chicks, The Allman Brothers Band, Sam Bush, New Monsoon, Sharon Gilchrist, Railroad Earth, New Grass Revival, Emmylou Harris, John Prine, Nickel Creek, Yonder Mountain String Band, Mumford & Sons, Leftover Salmon, Béla Fleck, Chris Thile, Noam Pikelny, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Tim O'Brien, Counting Crows and Alison Krauss, among many others. The Telluride house band consists of Sam Bush on mandolin, Bela Fleck on banjo, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on Dobro, Edgar Meyer on upright Bass, and Bryan Sutton on guitar.
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