2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Program Guide

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The Deal

Welcome to the show Drink lots of water and take it easy on the alcohol ‘til you adjust to the altitude. Wear plenty of sunblock, bring a raincoat & warm clothes for the evening. Pack out your garbage and recycle.

Stay on the trails, respect the environment and leave gates as they are. Nothing beats a tarp to sit on when things are looking wet.

Transit A free shuttle bus makes downtown loops daily. It starts running at 7 a.m. Hours that the bus stops running vary. Thursday it runs until 12 a.m., Friday and Saturday night it runs until 2 a.m. and Sunday it runs until 1 a.m. (look for the Galloping

Goose signs on Colorado and Pacific Avenues). The Gondola is a free ride to Mountain Village, daily from 7 a.m. to midnight. The Gondola runs until midnight on Thursday, until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and until 1:00 a.m. on Sunday during the festival.

KOTO Community Radio Tune in to 89.3 FM or 91.7 FM. Local news weeknights at 6 p.m., lost and found announcements, weather, community calendar and ride board throughout the day. For those of you who can’t attend the festival, KOTO broadcasts a majority of the festival LIVE. Visitor Center Location Located at Gondola Stations in the Town of Telluride and Mountain Village.

Dates to Remember 23rd Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, September 1618, 2016 Tickets on sale Tuesday March 1, 2016.

6th Annual Durango Blues Train, June 3 & 4, 2016. Tickets on sale this winter.

Colorado law prohibits any person to bring or have in their possession, any liquor other than liquor which is purchased within the licensed premise (Blues & Brews festival grounds). If you are caught inside festival grounds with alcohol you will lose your festival pass.

OFFICIAL BEER SPONSOR Torpedo Extra IPA, featuring our “Hop Torpedo,” is an aggressive yet balanced beer with massive hop aromas of citrus, pine, and tropical fruit.

Inspired by traditional Bavarian techniques.

With a full, fruity aroma and notes of spicy clove and banana bread, Kellerweis is a truly unique brew.

Pale Ale’s unique piney and grapefruit aromas from the use of whole-cone American hops have fascinated beer drinkers for decades.

Back Porch Lager was created by the Blues & Brews staff at a unique ‘one-ofa-kind’ Beer Camp weekend, this lager is available exclusively at the festival.

Hop Hunter IPA harnesses the complex flavors of just-picked hops through an allnew method of steam distilling wet hops before they even leave the fields.

Nooner’s brilliant golden color begs you to take a sip and sink your taste buds into an extremely welcoming beer, full of flavor and balanced by a crisp, dry finish.

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Big B’s Hard Cider

Harvest Apple Hard Cider

Bonfire Brewing ColoRadler

Durango Brewing Co. Durango Dark Lager

Ska Brewing

Modus Mandarina

Telluride Brewing Co. Face Down Brown

Oktoberfest beer, true to the roots of the festival, that’s deep golden in color and rich with complex malt flavor from the use of traditional German Steffi barley.

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Festival Box Office Hours

Wednesday, September 16, noon-5 pm thursday-saturday, September 17-19, 9 am-9 pm Sunday, September 20, 9 am-5 pm

HOUSE OF BREWS

Along with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. the House of Brews features 5 additional breweries - be sure to stop in and check out the different flavors being poured throughout the weekend.

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Event schedule

Main Stage FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN The Apache Relay p.tk Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats p.tk The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band p.tk Rich Robinson p.tk Blackberry Smoke p.tk ZZ Top p.tk

11:30 AM 12:00 - 1:00 PM 1:30 - 2:20 PM 2:50 - 3:50 PM 4:20 - 5:20 PM 5:50 - 6:50 PM 7:30 - 9:00 PM

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN Grand Tasting The Bright Light Social Hour p.tk Otis Taylor’s Hey Joe Opus p.tk Tab Benoit p.tk Monophonics w/ Ben l’Oncle Soul p.tk Telluride Blues Challenge Winner p.tk Anders Osborne p.tk Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings p.tk

11:00 AM 12:00 - 3:00 PM 12:00 - 1:00 PM 1:30 - 2:30 PM 3:00 - 4:00 PM 4:30 - 5:30 PM 5:30 - 5:50 PM 6:00 - 7:15 PM 7:45 - 9:15 PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

FESTIVAL GATES OPEN 10:30 AM The Blind Boys of Alabama p.tk 11:00 - 11:50 AM Leo “Bud” Welch p.tk 12:10 - 1:00 PM Roy Rogers & The Delta Rhythm Kings with Carlos Reyes p.tk 1:30 - 2:20 PM John Hiatt & The Combo p.tk 2:40 - 3:30 PM The Revivalists p.tk 4:00 - 4:50 PM Taj Mahal Trio p.tk 5:20 - 6:20 PM Gregg Allman p.tk 7:00 - 8:30 PM

Campground Sessions The festival’s additional shows in the campground exclusively for campers only (camping wristband required for entrance). Musicians will be playing on a rustic stage near the Lower Bear Creek Falls. Don’t miss the chance to see these intimate campground performances!

FRIDAY, SEPT 18 SATURDAY, SEPT 19 SUNDAY, SEPT 20

Hillstomp p.tk Leo “Bud” Welch p.tk Eagle Eye Williamson p.tk

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3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM 3:30 - 4:00 PM

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BLUES STAGE Blues & Brews second stage in the indoor Town Park Hanley Pavilion will feature additional musical performances, and comedic sets.

Expect appearances from the endlessly funny Troy Walker, Brent Gill, Stephen Agyei and Adam Cayton-Holland, in addition to a full weekend of music. For all of you young at heart, some of the comedy may be adult in nature. The Blues Stage is also the largest night time Juke Joint.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

The Ben Miller Band p.tk 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eagle Eye Williamson p.tk 2:30 - 3:30 PM Michael Hornbuckle Band p.tk 4:00 - 5:00 PM Hillstomp p.tk 5:30 - 6:30 PM Juke Joint Series ($) Tab Benoit p.tk (10:00 PM) & Rich Robinson p.tk (11:45 PM) 10:00 PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

Cary Morin p.tk 3:00 - 4:00 PM T Walker, B Gill, S Agyei, A Cayton-Holland p.tk 4:30 - 5:50 PM The London Souls p.tk 6:00 - 7:00 PM Juke Joint Series ($) Anders Osborne p.tk w/Tab Benoit p.tk Eagle Eye Williamson p.tk 10:00 PM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

C.W. Ayon T Walker, B Gill, S Agyei, A Cayton-Holland p.tk Leo “Bud” Welch p.tk Tyree Morris & Hearts of Worship p.tk

1:00 - 2:00 PM 2:30 - 3:50 PM 4:00 - 5:00 PM 5:30 - 6:30 PM

LATE NIGHT

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

SUNSET BLUES CONCERT - FREE Hillstomp With Opener The Johnson County Coroners Mountain Village Sunset Plaza at 5:00-7:00 PM BAL DE MAISON - OPENING PARTY ( $ ) Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Opera House at 9:00 PM OPENER: Eagle Eye Williamson

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

JUKE JOINT SERIES ( $ ) 10:00 PM Rich Robinson (of the Black Crowes) The Blues Stage And Tab Benoit Otis Taylor Band The Moon The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Opera House OPENER: The Ben Miller Band

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

JUKE JOINT SERIES ( $ ) 10:00 PM Anders Osborne with Tab Benoit The Blues Stage OPENER: Eagle Eye Williamson

The Bright Light Social Hour The Moon Monophonics with Ben l’Oncle Soul Opera House OPENER: DJ-Fernando “Bugalú” Velez

The London Souls Elks Lodge Comedians: Dirty Show Arroyo

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

FAIS DO DO - CLOSING CELEBRATION ( $ ) 10:00 PM The Revivalists Opera House If sold out in advance, there may be a limited amount of tickets sold at the door for $25. These tickets will only be released after the show starts and the festival staff has determined that all passholders are in the venue.

Special events

Blues for Breakfast

Join us for blues and breakfast from 9:00 AM - NOON on Saturday and Sunday mornings at the Elks Lodge (located at the corner of Townsend and Pacific Avenue). Enjoy solo performances by blues musicians while dining on scrambled eggs, pancakes, hash browns, sausage, coffee, and juice. The music is free. Breakfast, Bloody Marys, Mimosas, and a full bar are extra. ($)

Saturday, September 19

Elks Lodge – Telluride Blues Challenge

Sunday, September 20

9:00 AM - Noon

Elks Lodge – Cary Morin, CW Ayon & Blues Callenge 2nd Place Winner 9:00 AM - Noon

Telluride Blues Challenge

Blues & Brews Festival partnered with the Telluride Blues Society and the Colorado Blues Society to host the Telluride Blues Challenge. The event showcases talented solo and duo performer(s) who excel in the Blues genre, acoustic and electric, who are not currently signed. The top six entries will play at the “Blues for Breakfast” on Saturday, September 19 to compete for cash prizes, a premium Martin guitar courtesy of Telluride Music and a 20 minute set on the Main Stage at the 2015 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, and a full set at the 2016 Festival.

This Ain’t No Mouse Music!

Film Fundraiser For San Miguel Resource Center

VIP Tasting with 20 Select Microbreweries NOON - 3:00 PM (Concurrent with Grand Tasting) Raw Bar ($) 3:00 - 6:00 PM (Oysters on the Half-Shell, Oyster Shooters, Shrimp Cocktails)

Join us for ‘This Ain’t No Mouse Music!’ on Wednesday, September 16th at 7:30 PM at the Palm Theatre. KOTOfm’s DJ Jimmy Jazz, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, the Hotel Telluride and the Palm Theater are coming together to raise funds and awareness for the San Miguel Resource Center. Live music

by AJ Fullerton of The Johnson County Coroners from 5:00 - 7:00 PM.

Brunch, Bloody Mary & Champagne Reception 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Assorted Candy Bar 3:00 PM Raw Bar ($) 3:00 - 6:00 PM (Oysters on the Half-Shell, Oyster Shooters, Shrimp Cocktails)

Wednesday, September 16 Reception, 5:00-7:00 pm Hotel telluride Film, 7:30 Pm, the palm

VIP Event Schedule

All VIP Events take place within the VIP Area on festival grounds

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

VIP Reception (Open Bar and Hors d’ Oeuvres)

4:00 - 6:00 PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20

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SHARP Dressed FAN

Festival Art gallery > Telluride Blues & Brews Festival’s Official Art Gallery for the weekend is at Arroyo Wine Bar, located at 220 E Colorado Ave! Stop by, have a beverage, light bites and enjoy artwork from festival photographers Barry Brecheisen & Dino Perrucci, painters Scramble Campbell, Daryl Price and past festival artists. Artwork will be for sale. Open daily Thurs-Sun 7:00 a.m. - close.

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The artist Daryl PRICE

I started painting in 2005 after contracting a neurological disease called Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (formerly known as Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). I used painting to deal with the chronic severe pain caused by the illness. I started selling my work professionally in 2008. The subject matter of my work consists mainly of jazz and blues musicians and scenes from 1930/40’s America. African American history plays a big part in my work. I use no reference when I paint, even though it is mostly realism. I emphasize bright colors and movement; occasionally I use distortion for effect. My knowledge of human anatomy stems from a long career as a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter. Since I’m self-taught, my techniques create a unique, signature style. I consider my artistic ability a God given gift that helps me cope with the pain of illness. I hope my work gives other people a sense of the joy I feel from painting.

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It’s time to celebrate one of this year’s headliners, ZZ Top! On Friday, Sept. 18th we are hosting the Sharp Dressed Fan Costume Contest. The contest will be all about dressing like your favorite little ol’ band from Texas, ZZ Top. So break out your beards and your “cheap sunglasses” for a chance to win TWO 2016 Blues & Brews Festival weekend passes.

On Friday, we will be handing out (6) ‘sharp dressed’ tickets to the most enthusiastically dressed fans. The six chosen fans will then report to the festival merchandise tent at 5:00 p.m. “sharp” that evening.

Finalists will be directed onto the festival main stage where they will vie for the most cheers from their fellow festivalgoers! The contestant who gets the most audience cheers for their costume will be awarded TWO WEEKEND PASSES to the 2016 Blues & Brews Festival.

So tell your friends, join in the fun and put on your beard and cheap sunglasses!

Yoga Sessions Whether you’re enjoying the festival, mountaintop adventures or relaxing among friends for the weekend in Telluride, the Blues & Brews’ “Yoga Sessions” presented by Telluride Yoga Festival are opportunities to unplug from the ordinary and discover the extraordinary from within. Festival guests, from beginners to advanced levels, are welcome to join us on Saturday and Sunday morning during the festival weekend.

Location: Elks Park

Time: 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Inclement Weather Location:

What to Bring: Water, Yoga Mat, Towel and Active Wear (Come with or without. These items are not mandatory to join in the class.)

(Free and open to the public)

Town Park Pavilion

September 19 & 20

Rainbow Kids

Festival Fun for the Little Ones

Kids of all ages can enjoy various activities in the Rainbow Kids area throughout the festival weekend. Living Folklore features children’s entertainment, workshops, and two parades – one on Saturday and one on Sunday. Bring the kids to the Rainbow Kids area to join the wild and wacky Living Folklore Clowns, Giggly Sprout and Gumbo Wobbly. To learn more about the Living Folklore Clowns or The Arizona Living Folklore, visit livingfolklore.com. Additional activities ($) in the Rainbow Kids area include a bungee trampoline, climbing wall for children ages 3 and up, face painting, talent show and inflatable bounce games.

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THANKS

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AC Golden Brewing Company Aspen Brewing Company Avery Brewing Co. Big B’s Hard Cider Black Bottle Brewery Bonfire Brewing Boulder Beer Company Bristol Brewing Company Carbondale Beer Works Carver Brewing Co. Crazy Mountain Brewing Company Declaration Brewing Company Denver Beer Co. Durango Brewing Company Elevation Beer Company Elysian Brewing Company Epic Brewing Company FATE Brewing Company FCB (Fort Collins Brewery) Fiction Beer Company Flagstaff Brewing Co. Full Sail Brewing Co. Grand Canyon Brewing Company Stone Brewing Co. Grayton Beer Company Great Divide Brewing Company Horse & Dragon Brewing Company Jagged Mountain Brewery Lagunitas Brewing Company Left Hand Brewing Company Lone Tree Brewing Company Marble Brewery Moab Brewery Odell Brewing Company Oskar Blues Palisade Brewing Company Pikes Peak Brewing Co. Pug Ryan’s Brewing Company Roaring Fork Beer Company Rockslide Brewing Co. Rockyard Brewing Company San Luis Valley Brewing Company Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Ska Brewing Smugglers Brew Pub Steamworks Brewing Company Strange Craft Beer Company Suds Brothers Brewery Sweetwater Brewing Company Telluride Brewing Company Tenth and Blake Beer and Cider Co. The Bull & Bush Brewery Upslope Brewing Company Vernal Brewing Company Zion Brewery 14 | tellurideblues.com

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The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival Would like to thank the following People for their support Town of Telluride staff, TELLURIDE TOWN COUNCIL, Stephanie Jaquet, and the Parks & Recreation Staff and Commission, The Town of Mountain Village staff, and the Telluride Mountain Village Owners Association, the telluride tourism board, town of telluride public works

Official Sponsors

for the ‘Best of fest’

Brewers Award 2015 Look for the text code next to your favorite brewery

Please enjoy the pours from 56 microbreweries on Saturday, NOON - 3 PM (The maps below depict the beer tents from the vantage point of the festival’s front gate.)

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And we can’t forget the musicians, brewers, vendors, volunteers & the entire staff whose hard work And dedication makes the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival a success! tellurideblues.com | 15 Yours in Music—Steve Gumble, Festival Director

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THE Comedians

Brent Gill >>

Brent Gill knew he would be a performer the first time he felt the heat of a roomful of eyes on his bare genitalia on stage. (It’s a long story and a sealed court document). While merely a teenager, Brent was a steel worker by day and exotic dancer by night. His goal: Immortality. However, a lingering knee injury suffered during a particularly erotic shimmy to Ginuwine’s “Pony,” as well as an expanding waistline made it clear that Brent Gill’s dancing days neared an end. Initially his attempts at nude, comedic, interpretive dance failed, but he quickly found confidence behind the mic as a more traditional standup comedian. Though slightly less

erotic than his previous endeavors, Brent’s on stage charisma and energy will leave audiences aroused and entranced.

“Brent is a MUST SEE live act” says Urban Life magazine and the Boulder Weekly describes him as “the love child of Chris Farley and Winnie the Pooh.”

Stephen Agyei

Stephen Agyei is one of the fastest rising stars in comedy today, behind a mischievous style industry veteran Lamont Ferguson once memorably described as “calculated fearlessness.” The Denver based comic has featured at clubs coast to coast and opened for premier performers such as Dave Chappelle and Mitch Fatel.

Adam CaytonHolland

Adam CaytonHolland is a national touring comic and was named one of Esquire’s “25 Comics to Watch.,” as well as one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Along with his

Troy Walker

Troy Walker has quickly become one of Denver’s most sought-after comedians, a designation he’d dismiss with a modest scoff, despite its accuracy. A regular at Comedy Works, Walker has won the Comedy Works “New Faces” contest twice.

Walker has had the pleasure of opening for some of the most prominent comedians in the country and also serves as a fine ambassador of Denver comedy at national and local comedy festivals and on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. After witnessing his storytelling abilities and commanding presence onstage it should come as no surprise that he’s also a licensed attorney who graduated from The University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law.

cohorts in The Grawlix, he is one of the creators and stars of the TRU TV sitcom. Adam lives with a Chesapeake Retriever named Annabel Lee, once threw out the opening pitch at a Colorado Rockies game, and people have described him as “genial” and “with pretty decent teeth.”

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The Apache Relay

This band is A little out of the pocket for the typical Blues & Brews act, but Apache Relay’s performance at the SXSW 2015 sealed the deal for Blues & Brews Festival Director Steve Gumble.

In fact, we’ll let him speak to Apache Relay’s charms. “I think people will be pleasantly surprised by these boys from Nashville.

Their rootsy approach to music

might be a bit of a departure from a lot of the bands that have graced the Blues & Brews stage but I am confident they will be embraced with open arms in this

music loving valley!” Steve also predicts dancing. We can do that!

MAIN Stage, FRIDAY, Noon Elks Lodge, FRIDAY, 10:00 Pm

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night sWeats Within Nathaniel Rateliff lives two, distinct musical personalities. One is the acclaimed folk artist, as sensitive and insightful as Nick Drake. His intimate vocals and fine songs won him opening slots with The Fray and The Lumineers tours, among others. The other is the passionate soul man, infused with rhythm and blues, a howling dervish on stage. As witnessed on 20 | tellurideblues.com

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stage with his band The Nightsweats. He’s a gifted songwriter, a seasoned showman and a fixture on the Denver music scene.

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THE MUSIC

the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band Testify! The Reverend is back in town!

Let the good Reverend and his band, featuring Breezy Peyton on washboard and Ben Russell on drums, sanctify you with their punky, electrified country blues.

This trio raises hell on stage, as one blown-away club owner once observed after taking in a show.

Their new record, So Delicious, on Yazoo records, finds Rev. Peyton on a label that celebrates country blues and early American music artists. Like his favorite artists growing up, Charley Patton and Mississippi John Hurt, he’s an authentic purveyor of this gritty, honest form of the blues. With contemporary lyrics, incredible energy and serious chops, Rev. Peyton’s Damn Big Band will have you stomping up dust in no time.

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Blackberry Smoke >>

The pantheon of kickass bands that hails from the steamy South is deep and we’re over the moon about having Blackberry Smoke on our line-up this year. The Allman Brothers started it and Atlanta’s Blackberry Smoke has emerged as a band of equally enormous stature. Just ask none other than Gregg Allman who declared, “That band is gonna put Southern rock back on the map.” For the five musicians who comprise the hard rocking, country-inflected, blues-driven band that’s been playing more than 200 gigs a year since their inception in 22 | tellurideblues.com

Paragon 2000, it’s all about the well-crafted song. They grew up listening to The Beatles, Stones and Aerosmith and strive for that kind of excellence. “We’re always trying to come up with songs and records

that are as good as the ones that we grew up with,” drummer Brit Turner explains. To this we say, “Turn it up.”

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THE MUSIC Keeping you warm on cool festival nights

Otis Taylor’s hey joe opus If you dig trance

Rich RobinsoN

Rich Robinson has shed his Crowe feathers and is soaring with his solo career. Robinson, with his brother Chris, founded the powerful, Southern psychedelic blues-rock band The Black Crowes in the 1980’s, bowling rock fans over with their power and badass rock attitude. Rich’s songs and riff-heavy guitar playing were the engine that kept the Crowes in flight until they went on hiatus in 2013, officially calling an end to the band earlier this year. Not to worry. Rich’s new record The Ceaseless Sight – his third solo effort - puts his former band in the rearview mirror. He’s moving forward, and has given us

a brilliant collection of songs that Rolling Stone magazine’s David Fricke described as a, “lyrically spiritual, musically earthy balance of electric-blues, bravado, psychedelic-country exploration and almost courtly vocal cool.” It’s the kind of sound that goes straight to the heart when experienced live.

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that unique vantage point, they saw an America that troubled them. Their new album, Space Is The Place, casts an eye to the future, where collective energy is harnessed to create change and where tolerance and compassion rule the day. It’s a compelling, musical statement that quite frankly rocks on so many levels.

Live, they are mesmerizing and far-out. We dig ‘em. A lot.

His mesmerizing, hypnotic brand of blues draws the listener into a songbook of hard luck, race, love gone wrong and all of life’s confounding dilemmas, choices and consequences. His latest record, Hey Joe Opus/Red Meat on his own Trance Blues label, is a 10-song suite meant to taken in as a whole. “Hey Joe,” popularized by Jimi Hendrix and written by Billy Roberts is a recurring theme, musically and morally, and Taylor brings in guest musicians Langhorne Slim, Warren Haynes and Billy Nershi to give further complexity to Taylor’s ideas. A true visionary and a compelling artist, Otis Taylor is living, breathing blues history. Let him take you on his journey.

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the Bright Light Social Hour Bright Light Social Hour - Curtis Roush (guitar, vocals, synths], Jack O’Brien (bass, vocals, synths), Joseph Mirasole (drums, synths) – took the music world by storm, when, in 2011, they nabbed a quiver full of SXSW awards and earned acclaim for their unique psych-rock-soul sound. The avowed Southerners have toured constantly since their cannonball into the pool, and like most up-and-coming bands, they slept on fans’ floors far more often than in hotels. From

blues, you need look no further than multiinstrumentalist/ songwriter Otis Taylor.

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Tab Benoit

The Johnson County Coroners The Johnson County Coroners do not believe in luck, but rather that fortune favors the bold. They also believe in pure unabashed Rock and Roll. This belief is reflected in the high energy sound of this 5 piece Blues/Rock band established in Montrose, CO. The sound

they produce is a fiery blend of Texas Blues, Mississippi Delta Blues, Colorado Blues and good old fashion “Cold-SteelBlues”.

FREE SUNSET BLUES CONCERT Mountain Village Sunset Plaza Thursday, 5:00 PM

Monophonics with special guest Ben L’Oncle Soul It’s soul time! Here’s a fine pairing for those of you who like your soul deep, your jams deeply grooved and your booty always moving.

Monophonics are on the forefront of the neo-soul movement that has swept the country. Brassy, funky and heartfelt, the Monophonics’ sound is fresh, bright and energetic. They’re teaming up with the young French soul sensation Ben L’Oncle Soul (born Ben

Duterde), whose trademark bowtie makes him look a bit like the man whose countenance graces packages of Uncle Ben’s rice – hence his stage name, slightly altered. He’s phenomenal. He sings in French and English and he’s a perfect match for the Monophonics. Get your soul on!

MAIN Stage, Saturday, 4:30 PM Opera house, Saturday, 10:00 pm

His guitar wails and cries and his voice is as warm and inviting as a front porch swing on a muggy, Southern night.

Tab Benoit is a gifted guitarist, a passionate singer and a songwriter with a conscience.

In “A Whole Lotta Soul,” cowritten with Anders Osborne on the album Medicine, he laments environmental degradation at the hand of man, a plaintive ode to the natural world crisply punctuated with his incisive guitar solos.

Tab Benoit is a staunch defender of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands, a crucial habitat to numerous bird and aquatic species and a steadily eroding, natural defense against the increasingly fierce storms that batter the Gulf coast. His group, Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars, tours the country to raise money and awareness for the non-profit he established in 2004. A list of band’s members read like a Who’s Who of New Orleans music with Johnny Sansone, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Cyril Neville and other luminaries joining forces to protect the place they love and call home. Now that’s a whole lotta soul.

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Anders Osborne >> Who is this

shaman? Searing guitar work, pull-no-punches lyrics, fierce and committed performances, restless energy, dedication to his craft, and the respect of his peers – that’s right, Anders Osborne.

He traveled the world from his native Sweden to find his true home in New Orleans.

Since 1985 he’s made an indelible mark on not only his city’s always-hopping music scene, but with fans all over the U.S. and around the world. When he

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takes the stage at festivals – and we’ve seen this time and again – music lovers drop what they’re doing and surge to the front, anxious to lap up every drop of soul he radiates into the crowd.

He upped the ante this year with a fantastic collaboration with the North Mississippi Allstars that resulted in a rootsy, spirited album and a coast-to-coast tour.

To hear NMO’s (North Missis-

The Blind Boys of Alabama The Blind Boys of Alabama are likely too modest to say it for themselves, so we will … they are legends. In a 60-year career, the men whose beginnings were

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as humble as their very souls have reaped numerous awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Endowment for the Arts and the

sippi Osborne) Freedom and Dreams, is to hear what guitarist Luther Dickinson calls, “a type of modern Southern folk rock.”

Welcome back to the mountains, Anders, and don’t miss Anders and Tab’s Saturday night Juke jam.

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Daily trips.

Lifetime memories.

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National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. They are enshrined in the Gospel Music Hall of Fame and Grammy awards spill from their mantles.

The Blind Boys’ brand of gospel music is a blend of traditional and contemporary material, drawing from timeless classics, to songs written by Prince, Ben Harper and Tom Waits.

They’ve appeared on numerous recordings by artists such as Bonnie Raitt, k.d. lang, Willie Nelson and Susan Tedeschi and continue to tour and record at a pace much younger musicians would admire. Legends, pure and simple.

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Leo “Bud” Welch >>

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It’s never too late to start a recording career. Just ask 83-year-old Leo “Bud” Welch.

His first record came out in 2013, decades after he first picked up a guitar in 1945. For blues fans, it’s been worth the wait. He made Rolling Stone magazine’s 2015 list of 10 New Artists You Need to Know and for good reason.

His first record, Sabougla Voices, is a gritty, electric gospel outing that is typical of how Welch has

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spent his musical time – raising spirits in the Sabougla Baptist Church. His next outing, however, is straight-up electric blues.

I Don’t Prefer No Blues is pulsating with his visceral guitar work and growling vocals. If you like your blues á la Mississippi Fred

McDowell or Junior Kimbrough, this is it. This is real blues straight from rural Mississippi to the mountains.

This promises to be a mindboggling and enchanting musical match-up. Two masters of their respective instruments – Roy Rogers on slide guitar and Carlos

Reyes on harp – will be performing what will probably be the festival’s most unique set. Rogers is considered the world’s finest slide guitar player, with this comment from the late John Lee Hooker, with whom Rogers played for years. “He gets real deep and funky, and he masters whatever he plays.” ‘Nuff said.

As for Reyes, he is a hero in his native Paraguay. Considered a child prodigy, he began his musical journey on the violin, but took up the 36-string Paraguayan harp as a challenge from his musician father. Now considered a master, Reyes has appeared on numerous soundtracks, released a number of CDs and has collaborated with artists in nearly every genre, from Chuck Mangione to Steve Miller to MC Hammer.

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THE MUSIC

John Hiatt & the combo John Hiatt lets his life steer his songs. He’s one of America’s most keenly observant songwriters and his eye for detail takes in not only the world around him, but also his own vulnerability in the face of life, love, aging and memory. A songwriter since the tender age of 11, Hiatt has seen his songs made huge by heavyweights like Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, BB King, Bonnie Raitt and Iggy Pop. His latest record, Terms of My Surrender, is a rootsy outing, filled with his characteristic honesty and passion.

His band is tight and supportive and simply called Combo – they are fantastic live. We love the way Hiatt’s passionate vocals carom

off the canyon walls and into our very souls. You will, too.

music stands rock on its head with pedal steel and horns conspiring in a fresh, unique sound that weaves naturally with their fondness for rock’s golden era. They got funk, they got soul, and they have

a stage show that you should not miss.

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The Revivalists It is no secret that New Orleans is a vibrant, fertile and thriving place for musicians to practice their art. You can’t swing a cat without hitting a really, really good musician.

So, when a band stands out for its innovation, energy and soul in New Orleans, that’s saying something. Introducing The Revivalists, a band of musicians from all around the country who gravitated to one another through, friendship, happenstance and good fortune. They represent the tip of the iceberg of that city’s indie rock scene. Their 34 | tellurideblues.com

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THE MUSIC

Eagle Eye Williamson A lone man sits Hillstomp

Lace up your stompin’ boots!

This DIY duo mashes up the blues into a feral, back alley howl of a set. “Hurricane” Henry Christian on slide guitar and “Lord Johnny” Johnson on drums (or buckets, or cans, or lids) put Mississippi trance blues, Appalachia and punkabilly into a blender and churn out an infec-

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Have we got a power trio for you. The Ben Miller Band defies categorization but one thing is certain upon experiencing this band’s crackling take on roots music from the Ozarks – there’s gonna be a lot of dust kicked up in Town Park. In fact, if you’re going to call it anything at all, try “Ozark Stomp,” a tip of the hat 36 | tellurideblues.com

tious sound that begs for dancing and hell-raising. The Portland duo has been both converting skeptics and preaching to the choir in live shows that are crackling with energy and “what the heck just happened?” Get some.

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behind a stripped down drum kit with a guitar at the ready.

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to their origins and the high energy of their live sets, Their new record Any Way, Shape, or Form, is as fresh and unhinged as their raucous live shows. Ben Miller fronts the group on guitar and vocals, Scott Leeper plays single string washtub bass (you read that right) and Doug Dicharry moves from washboard to drums to trombone. Bring it!

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What issues forth from this unexpected configuration is sublime. Eagle Eye Williamson is Texan to the core.

You can hear it in his molten voice, one that sounds like lonesome prairies and whiskey-soaked juke joints. You can hear it in the warm wash of his guitar, which he plays solely off the fret board, pulling and hammering each fuzzy lick. You can hear it in his songs, self-penned tunes that are redolent of bluesinfused rock – think ZZ Top, Junior Kimbrough or Jimmy Reed. And when he’s played his last note, you’ll want more.

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C.W. Ayon The blues runs

in Cooper “CW” Ayon’s veins. Once the New Mexico native learned the guitar from his wife he has never looked back.

He is a fixture on the New Mexico scene and his songs have garnered awards from that state’s music awards organization. After playing in bands in the Las Cruces area, he struck out on his own.

This is a one-man band with a large, encompassing sound. He plays a simple kick-snare set-up,

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guitar and will whip out the harmonica as the song demands. His hill country blues style will bring to mind R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Muddy Waters, but in a way that is all Cooper

Ayon. He will perform on our Blues Stage.

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Tyree Morris & Hearts of Worship Tyree Morris ministered to broken singers from across Denver.

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the soul with gratitude, peace and respect. Hearts of Worship is an energetic blend of gospel, R&B, hip-hop, funk, soul and jazz that will have you swaying

with your palms raised to the morning sun. Through music comes healing. Rise up!

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Cary Morin

The London Souls >> The London Souls are Tash Neal on guitar and drummer Chris St. Hilaire. Both men sing and sing well. To state that they rock is technically correct, but they are so much more than that. Live, this duo’s chops are undeniable and the energy they transmit could light up New York City. And that’s what they’ve been doing since

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they formed in 2008 in the Big Apple. They’ve been winning over music-lovers in that very competitive city, one club gig at a time. Their recorded work reveals a depth of variety and influence and their latest record, Here Come The Girls, is a fascinating excursion. They can be as sweet and harmonious as a Beatles song, as trippy and mind-bending as My Morning Jacket and as hard-rocking as the mighty Led Zeppelin. So, yeah, they rock. And so much more.

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Hornbuckle lost his blues-playing daddy, Bobby Hornbuckle, in 1996. Michael – who had been playing drums in his father’s band - inherited the old man’s Gibson guitar and with it, his legendary prowess. He quit drumming and now heads up this electric blues juggernaut that is attracting attention from all over the country.

Shades of Stevie Ray, they say!

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Taj Mahal trio

It should come as little surprise that a performer with his depth, understanding and multiple influences grew up in a musical family.

This is acoustic blues at its finest, and most deftly played.

As compelling as is Cary Morin’s voice, it’s his fingerstyle guitar work that tells his stories. Through him flows blues, jazz, bluegrass, reggae and jam in a distinct style often characterized as Native Americana. A Crow tribal member from Montana, Cary Morin now calls Colorado home. In addition to solo recording and touring, he also performs with Young Ancients with John Magnie and Steve Amedée of The Subdudes. Catch Cary Morin on the Blues Stage.

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World music flowed from the family’s radio and their home was often filled with his musician father’s cohorts from Africa, the Caribbean and across the United States.

Stories of his parent’s African and West Indian heritage further cemented the young Henry Saint Claire Frederick’s affinity for music. (Taj Mahal is his stage name – it came to him in a dream.)

As much as music flows through his veins, his twin passion is farming and growing his own food, a path that he could have just as easily followed. In college, he studied agriculture, but it was music that commanded his full attention.

His career stretches back to the late 1950s when he first started gigging and has continued without pause until today.

He incorporates elements of blues, reggae, jazz, calypso, gospel and R&B into a distinctive style that is as much a musical history lesson as it is a look at his family tree.

His collaborations are numerous and include brilliant recorded work with the likes of Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones and Ali Farka Touré.

What an honor to welcome Taj Mahal back to Telluride.

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THE MUSIC

The blues

Well, well, well … that little ol’ band from Texas has made it to the mountains, at last!

ZZ Top’s members, guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard are bringing their deep, choogling blues riffs, wry, tongue-in-cheek lyrics, and iconic, chest-length beards to the Town Park stage and we couldn’t be more excited!

Together since 1969, the Houston-based band is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall

of Fame, has sold countless millions of records and continues to thrill audiences around the world.

They sing about legs, whorehouses, pearl necklaces, payday and cheap sunglasses and guarantee you will party on the patio.

While they updated their 1980s sound with echo and synthesizers – much to critical and commercial success – at their very

core, the Top is a blues band, pure and simple. The three Texans came together over a shared love of Freddy King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, and to this day they celebrate through their music not only their love of the Lone Star State, but the blues that inspired them. They’ve returned to the stripped-down, no frills sound of their earliest recordings, and still deliver more sound than anyone could think possible from a trio.

Let’s get it on, ya’ll!

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THE MUSIC

The Soul

Sharon Jones is petite, but don’t let her diminutive stature fool you for a second. Within this fiercely determined woman lives a reservoir of soul that radiates like the star she is.

Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings She and the fabulously funky Dap-Kings are an engaging, soul-R&B-funk outfit that delivers music that is heartfelt and infectiously danceable. Jones’ stage presence is commanding, her voice at once powerful and intimate. The Dap-Kings’ prowess is legend – they were the backing band on Amy Winehouse’s instant classic, Back To Black. This mighty woman beat cancer, was once a corrections officer at Rikers Island who sang for the inmates there, and bristles at the notion of being a “retro” soul singer. She is most definitely right here, right now and her passion and energy is boundless. We are honored to welcome her back to the mountains.

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The Classic

He has a voice as smooth as aged whiskey and a musical pedigree that reaches back to the early 1960s, when he and his brother Duane first started playing instruments.

Gregg Allman Though Gregg had other plans after graduating high school, his big brother Duane convinced him to live the life of a musician and forego a future in dentistry.

Gregg Allman has never looked back.

Duane and Gregg’s band, the first of its kind in the “Southern rock” genre, helped define the sound of their generation. Landmark albums such as, Idlewild South, Eat A Peach and At Fillmore East burnished their reputation as a fantastic live act. The band had become deft practitioners of soulful, bluesy rock, honed by lean years on the road. Losing first Duane, than bassist Berry Oakley, though devastating, only served to steel the remaining band members’ resolve to play on. Decades later, The Allman Brothers Band played their swan song series of shows at the Beacon Theatre in New York this year, but that did not spell the end of the musician’s life for keyboardist and songwriter, Gregg.

For the second time in Telluride Blues and Brews history, Gregg and his band will take the stage a deliver a dose of Southern comfort to our souls.

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Making the Blues Green Reuse, Reduce, Recyle and Compost

In cooperation with our vendors, Sysco, and the Town of Telluride, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival provides festival attendees the opportunity to recycle and compost nearly everything you would want to throw away. When you arrive at the festival, you’ll find six recycling and compost centers located throughout the festival grounds and one in the campground.

Blues & Brews is teaming up with Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics. LNT teaches people of all ages how to enjoy the outdoors responsibly, and is the most widely accepted outdoor ethics program used on public lands. As a proud partner of Leave No Trace, the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival is pleased to be able to do our part to pass our nation’s heritage of outdoor recreation on to future generations. WIN PRIZES: Stop by the LNT booth near the entrance to the festival and find out all of their initiative based contests to win all kinds of cool swag!

Souvenirs & Sierra Nevada

Save your souvenir tasting glass and especially your beer cups. The beer is cheaper when you reuse your cup!

As an added incentive to save your beer cup, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., our official beer sponsor, will give you a sticker for every day you reuse the same beer cup. Be one of the first 100 people to visit the Sierra Nevada booth on Sunday with a complete set of stickers on the same cup and you’ll receive free Sierra Nevada swag!

Thanks for filling your cup and not the landfills!

Green Tickets

By purchasing a Telluride Green Ticket for only $3, you support Leave No Trace’s initiative in Telluride to raise awareness and educate people about reducing their impact on the environment. Help us protect the earth and keep the festival moving in a sustainable direction. Tickets are available for purchase at LNT’s booth.

Green The Scene

Coolest Campsite Contest

Leave No Trace is teaming up with the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival to encourage all of our campers to green the scene by entering the “Coolest Campsite Contest”.

Campers: for more information swing by the Leave No Trace booth and enter to win prizes and FREE passes for next year’s festival!

REFILL & REHYDRATE

No bottled water is available for purchase at Blues & Brews.

We offer FREE water stations within the festival to keep you hydrated all day. Bring your own bottle, or purchase a limited edition Klean Kanteen from the festival store and refill your bottle throughout the day at our Filling Station on the west end of the Park, and in VIP.

Marijuana Awareness Marijuana is now legal in Colorado but please do not celebrate this law at the festival! Remember it is still illegal to smoke or consume marijuana in public. It is also illegal for anyone under the age of 21 to possess marijuana. Please respect our new law and your festival neighbors!

Marijuana concentration varies from product to product, as do individual reactions. While many experience relaxation, euphoria and altered senses, others may experience anxiety, paranoia, irregular heart rhythms, disorientation, even psychosis The effects of consuming edibles are different and stronger than the effects of smoking marijuana, especially for first time users.

The type and strength of the product, your tolerance, body chemistry and what you’ve had to eat, all impact effects.

Take it slow! Edibles may take up to 1½ hours to produce effects and last as long as 4 to 8 hours.

People over 50 years of age and/or those with a pre-existing conditions are at greater risk of experiencing undesirable health effects from marijuana.

Take caution if consuming other drugs and/ or alcohol when using marijuana.

Do not store your edibles with other food and snacks to avoid unintentional consumption by children or pets.

If you experience undesirable effects from edibles, try to remain calm and relax in a quiet place.

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years that the truly kinetic Durango Blues Train has transformed the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad into a 3 ½ hour festival on wheels. Heralded as SBG Productions’ live music event unlike any other in the counDURANGOBLUESTRAIN

try, this “moving” experience places passengers intimately next to six Blues, Rock and Zydeco acts each night of its run through the canyons of Colorado’s San Juan National Forest. Inspired artists fill vintage coach cars with their lively music as passengers dance and enjoy libations from Telluride Brewing Company, Ska Brewing plus select wines, and are free to move between rail cars to catch all the performers! Now expanded to two weekends in June and August, this is a “must do” for any dedicated audiophile and train enthusiast with an adventurous bucket list.

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In memoriam

The king

BB King September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015 Riley B. King, better known as B.B. King, will always be known as the undisputed King of the Blues. The great guitarist – who’s distinctive bent-string sound influenced countless musicians from Eric Clapton to Gary Clarke Jr. to Billy Gibbons – passed away this year at the age of 89. A tireless performer who played more than 200 nights a year well into his 70s, King graced the Telluride Blues and Brews Stage twice (2004 and 2010) in his illustrious career. So impressed was the blues legend with Telluride, he remarked, “Out of the 90 different countries I’ve been to, I’ve never seen anything more beautiful than what you have here.”

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Bena, a speck on the rural Mississippi landscape and worked hard from an early age. He built his first guitar from cotton bailing wire and got his first taste of the blues from his uncle, the great bluesman Bukka White, and from listening to his aunt’s Blind Lemon Jefferson records. He knew hardship, he knew racism, he knew poverty, and he knew the brutal labor that is working in the cotton fields. But young Riley was drawn to the juke joints where jazz and pretty women filled the room and before long, he was in Memphis, perfecting the conversation he created between guitar and voice, voice and guitar.

His iconic, voluptuous black Gibson semi hollow King named Lucille, was his instrument of choice and when B.B.’s second Blues and Brews appearance fell

near his September 16 birthday, festival staff honored him with a cake in Lucille’s form. Not only did King hold the crowd in the palm of his hand, but also those who were fortunate to be able to meet him and spend some time in his easy company. TBB Festival Director, Steve Gumble counts himself lucky to be among them.

“I am not one of those star struck people,” Steve said. “However, when BB came to town for the first time I knew I had to take a moment to actually sit down and say thank you for coming to our little ole festival. I ended up spending over an hour with him on his bus (along with Elvin Bishop) because he just wanted to talk and tell stories. I have never met a more kind and gentle souled man in my entire festival career.”

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Festival Director Steve Gumble Director of Operations Courtney McClary Marketing & PR Director Bill Kight Multimedia & Projects Director Jake Bomersback Camping, Volunteers & Vending Director Denise Mongan Artist & Backstage Production Director Teddy Errico Park Operations Director Judd Kleinman

Security Director John Cohn Informational Barricade & Parking Director Dennis Green Stage Production & Artist Advance Director Jereb Carter

Communications Director Luci Reeve Mercantile Director Karen Moore Festival Chef John Gerona Beverage Operations Dave Zaumseil Box Office Director Ted Wilson Box Office Operations Manager Phoebe Joecks Artist Hospitality Kathleen Cole and Kristin Hickey Backstage Massage & Yoga Sessions Instructor Diana Marshall Artist Merchandise Ashley Story, Diana Serpe Artist Biographer Suzanne Cheavens Accounting Sherry Brieske, Duke Dean Blues Stage Staff Brent Compton, Cat Leonaitis, Jasper Dupont iii Blues Stage Manager Chris Lawrence

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