Last month, the 34th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival was amazing and hosted one of the best lineups in years including Los Lobos, Alison Krauss, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet (featuring the angelic Sharon Gilchrist), Guster, Greensky Bluegrass, Jackie Greene, Yonder Mountain String Band, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Chris Thile, Sparrow Quartet , The Infamous Stringdusters, Crooked Still and tons more.
The Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Quartet was what I might consider to be the best set I’ve experienced in 10 consecutive years of going to Telluride Bluegrass. I love Peter Rowan, but what he’s done is to create the ultimate musical atmosphere for Tony Rice to showcase his jaw dropping guitar. And I also think that Sharon Gilchrist is one of the most amazing new mandolin players on the scene. I’ve seen her play with Uncle Earl and Mary and Mars and its so great to see her up on the stage with two Bluegrass gods!
Jackie Greene was another highlight of this year’s festival for me. He’s such an amazingly talented young songwriter and he reminds me of a cross between Tom Petty and Bob Dylan. The combination of his songwriting and musical sensibility make him one of my favorite new acts. If you check him out, give his album Gone Wanderin’ a listen.
Crooked Still was another highlight of the festival that caught me completely by surprise. Their cello player, Rushad Eggleston is out of this earth doing things that I didn’t know could be done with the cello. Not to mention the sweet smooth vocal stylings of singer Aoife O’Donovan
I was delighted to see the Leftover Salmon reunion on the Town Park Stage. They were billed as Drew Emmitt, Vince Herman and friends but nobody was fooled, this was the first time that LoS has played the festival in three years so it was quite a treat and caused me to wax nostalgic a little 
If you were at the festival and want to relive some of the fun or even if you weren’t, you
I was having so much fun that I only got to take a couple photos and none were of any of the performers. Fortunately flickr has got you covered!
