What Can I Bring to the North Mountain Blues and Brews and Arts Festival?
I've always felt like we have decent music festivals here in the Roaring Fork Valley. From the big ones, like the actual Aspen Music Festival and the JAS Labor Day and June festivals, to smaller events like Mountain Off-white and the Deaf Camp benefits, we get great music in beautiful settings. Just no affair how hard we try, we'll never exist able to friction match Telluride as a festival venue. That's not a knock on us and so much equally an admission that Telluride Town Park wins.
With its central location steps from downtown and a few blocks from the Mountain Village gondola, and flanked on its other side by a big campground, more than whatever other venue I've visited the park encourages people to walk to and from the grounds and melt right into the confined on Colorado Avenue for socializing and more music after the main-stage shows are done. And if there's a concert venue in the world with more than spectacular natural scenery, I'd honey to know where it is.
Samantha Fish
Inexplicably, I didn't grab on to the wonders of music in Telluride for my first 25 years in the Aspen area. I have no credible excuse. People told me, but I never did anything about it. It wasn't until last year, when I went in that location for the Ride Festival, that I realized what I'd been missing and determined that I was going to get there equally ofttimes as possible from here on out.
My latest foray came last weekend, when my wife, son and I went there for the 25th almanac Telluride Blues & Brews festival, a full-blown extravaganza with food, drink and craft vendors and big-name musical acts on the outdoor main stage and indoors on the dejection stage at the Herzog Theatre, which doubles as the town skating rink. In that location was fifty-fifty live one-act at the Herzog Theatre, with national headliners and a local standup who played to an enthusiastic home crowd.
Robert Constitute & The Sensational Infinite Shifters
The Brews portion of the proper name alluded to the Saturday beer tasting, which featured dozens of brewers from all over the Due west, including local heroes Aspen Brewing Company and Carbondale's Roaring Fork Beer Company. The tasting lasted from noon-iii p.one thousand. – too short a window, in my opinion – and featured hellaciously long lines. I approximate I should have expected every bit much with the sell-out crowd, which included all manner of mountain folk and VIPs with their own upscale, private glamping section of totally decked-out tents.
Needless to say, the musical lineup was amazing. The headliners for Friday, Saturday and Sun were Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, Robert Establish & The Sensational Space Shifters and Gov't Mule, respectively, and the undercards each day were almost equally impressive. Guitarist and vocalizer Samantha Fish was all the buzz for her Friday afternoon evidence, while dejection traditionalists Don Bryant (featuring the Bo-Keys) and RL Boyce and the Hill Land Allstars steeped the crowd in deep-South roots music on Lord's day.
Ben Harper
Just it was Saturday that really made the festival. R&B throwback Son Niggling got the oversupply moving ahead of a spirited, uplifting ready from horn-inflected, danceable groovers the California Honeydrops. Twenty-one-year-old guitar prodigy Marcus Rex followed before giving way to J.J. Gray and Mofro for one of the weekend's best performances. Then the living legend himself, erstwhile Led Zeppelin frontman Plant, took the phase, and he didn't disappoint.
With his voice still strong and unmistakeable at the historic period of seventy, Constitute opened, fittingly, with the Zeppelin classic "Skillful Times, Bad Times" (first song on the band'southward first album) and threw in a few more oldies for good measure to go with songs from his solo career. "Going to California" had everyone in attendance singing along, and his epic version of "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" was possibly the defining moment of the festival.
By the time the final rays of the setting sun disappeared from the surrounding mountainsides and the strains of a rousing "Whole Lotta Honey" encore had faded out, there was little doubtfulness that, for music fans, there was nowhere amend to exist.
Todd Hartley is the special sections editor for Aspen Daily News. He can exist reached at todd@aspendailynews.com.
Source: https://www.aspendailynews.com/arts_and_entertainment/blues-brews-and-unbeatable-views-in-telluride/article_0e607dc0-bc6b-11e8-ab3d-6733c87fa4c3.html
0 Response to "What Can I Bring to the North Mountain Blues and Brews and Arts Festival?"
Postar um comentário