The Fretliners - Winners of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Band Competition

Greetings fellow bluegrassers!

This month we have a great review with tons of photos of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival from Elliot Siff, an interview with Nadine Sekerez about Snowygrass and some mini-reviews of Pagosa Bluegrass Fest and Rail on the River from board member Amy Martin!

John Pierce - President, Colorado Bluegrass Music Society

In This Issue:

Festival Season is underway!

• ArticleOne

• Article Two

• This month’s nostalgic image is the 3rd Rocky Mountain Bluegrass Festival poster ( which became Rockygrass!)

Lots more to come in 2023, if you are not already a member, sign up!

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If you want to see all the photos from Telluride, click on any of the links below for all four days!

 Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2023 — Day 1

 Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2023 — Day 2

 Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2023 — Day 3

 Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2023 — Day 4

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This month for our “Power Pickin’ from the Past” image we have the third annual Rocky Mountain Bluegrass festival poster from 1975!

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Contributors to this month’s newsletter:

• John Pierce — President, CBMS

• Amy Martin — Board member and social media honcho for CBMS

• Elliot Siff - Local photographer extraordinaire