Lineup Announcement: Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2016

The "Queen and King of Telluride" will keep watching their thrones as Emmylou Harris returns to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the fourteenth year, and Sam Bush headlines the popular festival for the forty-second time. The annual festival announced its initial lineup of artists who will take the stage June...

By Katie Moulton

December 18, 2015

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The "Queen and King of Telluride" will keep watching their thrones as Emmylou Harris returns to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival for the fourteenth year, and Sam Bush headlines the popular festival for the forty-second time. The annual festival announced its initial lineup of artists who will take the stage June 16-19, 2016, with "many more" musicians still to be announced. A few highlights of the initial lineup include John Prine, local veterans Leftover Salmon and a special reunion of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones.

Four-day passes to the fest sold out within thirty minutes on sale, but some single-day passes are still available.

43rd Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival

Sam Bush Band
Neil Finn
Emmylou Harris
John Prine
Telluride House Band featuring Sam, Bela, Jerry, Edgar, Stuart & Bryan
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Yonder Mountain String Band
Del McCoury Band
Dave Rawlings Machine
Tim O’Brien Band
Leftover Salmon
Punch Brothers
Jerry Douglas Band
Greensky Bluegrass
Peter Rowan Band
The Infamous Stringdusters
Chris Thile
Kruger Brothers with the Kontras Quartet
Shane Koyczan & The Short Story Long
Sierra Hull
The Lil’ Smokies
Telluride Troubadour & Band Contests

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Katie Moulton is a former Westword music editor. She's written about culture for alt-weeklies since 2009 and has also worked as a venue manager, radio DJ/producer and festival organizer. Her go-to karaoke jams are "Flagpole Sitta," by Harvey Danger, or "Ride Wit Me," by Nelly, which tells you a lot.

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