What are your best TBF memories?

[landshark]

  Every year the same beautiful faces, the same beautiful sunsets and the music, I absolutly LOVE the  familuarity of it all.

TBF does funny things to this girl,  I can feel this smile starting to happen in me and it always starts in my feet. By the time I get to Telluride it will have invaded my lips and soon my hips and hands and HOLY COW it's a one man movement all my own!!!
 My best TBF memories are still waiting for me...

[ilovethelorax]

.... My best TBF memories are still waiting for me...

Hear...hear!!!   

 Listening to: mercury bustin the top off the thermometer

[flyfishindave]

Three memories that stand out...

1) Assembling flyrod at a pull-off several miles downstream from town on Thurday of 2001 and listening to KOTO FM thinking to myself this must be heaven.  The weater was ideal, the river was ideal for wet wading, and this voice over the airwaves captured my attention.  Her name is Mary Gautier and I sat there by the car questioning whether I should begin fishing or remain at the vehicle listening to her beautiful voice.  Anyway, I ended up buying her CD at the tent (Drag Queens and Limousines) and I recommend this CD to all

2)Watching Bela and the Flecktones perform magical Friday night music in 2001 on Townpark Stage as I'm looking away from Bridal Veil Falls towards town, as the crescent moon and stars absolutely flooded the skies above.  You had to have been there.  And then cooking breakfast the next morning, looking out my condo in town, seeing Victor Wooten, calling out, "Hey Future Man" and his less than amused stare back my way.  I thought at the time he was Future Man. 



 Listening to: Mission In the Rain, Jerry Garcia Band

[flyfishindave]

#3) Bringing my beautiful dog (since passed away) Stellablue, a gorgeous Bernese Mountain Dog down to Telluride one year, staying at the Telluride Hotel where many of the performers including Jerry Douglas made home, and watching Jerry fawn over Stella each time they met on the main floor.  Stella had this way with people and I miss her dearly...oh yeah, one other memory must be told...

It comes down to  seeing so many smiles during the festival, meeting new friends and knowing we are at the best place in the world for those few days down in Tride, that life can't be finer than at that moment in time

 Listening to: Sirius FM, GD channel

[TellurideTom]

2)Watching Bela and the Flecktones perform magical Friday night music in 2001 on Townpark Stage as I'm looking away from Bridal Veil Falls towards town, as the crescent moon and stars absolutely flooded the skies above.  You had to have been there.  And then cooking breakfast the next morning, looking out my condo in town, seeing Victor Wooten, calling out, "Hey Future Man" and his less than amused stare back my way.  I thought at the time he was Future Man. 

I think what you were looking at was Ingram Falls...
You can't see Bridal Veil from Town Park.

[flyfishindave]

You are correct.  I keep saying Bridal Veil Falls which is incorrect.  Anyway, you get the picture

[flyfishindave]

One other memory...

Hoppin' with CSI Mike to Sam Bush Band

[mntmama]

I have only been to 2 TBF's- this year will be my third, but getting to the festival at all was somewhat of a miracle.

My boyfriend and I broke up a week before TBF in 1996- and he was supposed to be my ride.  Well I was hell bent on going anyway.  So I bought my first car (at 26!)- a 1980 subaru GL- for $400.  Her name was Runt.  You could see the road from the floorboard, but I didn't care.  Runt was going to get me to Telluride.

Her tires were completely bald, and she had a bad alternator.  I lived in Dillon and had to get over several mountain passes in this car- and I hadn't had much driving experience.   I didn't care: I popped the clutch and on went to Telluride!  If anyone has seen Little Miss Sunshine- well that was me, but I was alone, asking strangers at gas stations to help me push my little Runt to get her started.

By the time I arrived on Thurs at 10 at night, I was frazzled, exhaused, and full of relief.  As the parking flagger tried to direct me, I started bawling out of the simple joy of having gotten there.  In true TBF fashion she let me take all the time I needed to pull myself together, then explained to me everything I needed to know about how to get myself set up (There was no online blog at the time!)

I then went to a local bar and met complete strangers who welcomed me into their camp and I will never ever forget their kindness.

It was a true experience of accomplishment for myself and example of the kindness of strangers which I will never forget.

Oh, and did I mention dancing to Ring of Fire being sung by Johnny and June Carter Cash? 

I can't wait to get back.....

 





 Listening to: Maggie Starr: Fade Into Me

[Jake n Wanda Ziller]

This will be our tenth since '91, the second for our kids. 

Let's see. Best memories, seeing the canyon for the first time. I think it was 1991, maybe Friday night and Strength In Numbers was on stage, a great night, really, really cold, might have been a record breaker it was so cold. Then there was the Saturday afternoon Peter Rowan played with The Free Mexican Air Force, the time he played the stuff from Awake Me In the New World for the first time. Then there was the Saturday afternoon the time Robert Earl Keen played, and John Hartford, and Lyle Lovett, and ....... every time I open the mail box and take the envelope out and find our tickets. And last year watching the big smile break out on my 7 year old son's face as he head the music come from the stage and seeing the crowd on the festival grounds for the first time.



 Listening to: "Drifter's Wind", Bill and Bonnie Hearne, from Watching Life through a Windshield

[Dewstar]

By the time I arrived on Thurs at 10 at night, I was frazzled, exhaused, and full of relief.  As the parking flagger tried to direct me, I started bawling out of the simple joy of having gotten there.  In true TBF fashion she let me take all the time I needed to pull myself together, then explained to me everything I needed to know about how to get myself set up (There was no online blog at the time!)

WONDERFUL!


This is a Blog? Crap!

[Hooch]

By the time I arrived on Thurs at 10 at night, I was frazzled, exhaused, and full of relief.  As the parking flagger tried to direct me, I started bawling out of the simple joy of having gotten there.  In true TBF fashion she let me take all the time I needed to pull myself together, then explained to me everything I needed to know about how to get myself set up (There was no online blog at the time!)




This is a Blog? Crap!

Hey Dewey!  Yeah, I bet the parking/security people at the checkpoint get a lot of excited blathering so have been warned and trained appropriately. 

[mntmama]

Are you guys making fun of me??  I think you're making fun of me??!!    But that doesn't happen on this blog oops...forum! 

[MandoGeek]

Don't worry about them for the most part they are harmless
One of my favorite memories is pulling into Town Park and seeing people I haven't seen for a whole year welcoming me back.
Another good memory is eating my first raw oyster, Thanks Hippie, I prefer the grilled ones though. Oh and then last year I had Rocky Mtn Oysters for the first time too. Yum. Who would have thought. 

[peachgrass]

Speaking of Bobby McFerrin, how about that duet with Alisoun on Sunday nite. Very Much a Goosebump moment. I listened from the fence line by Town Park Hall in the the campground and you could have heard a pin drop. sshhhiivvvveeerrsss

This is definitely a goosebump moment for me, too! I couldn't believe how beautiful that was. . .also later, during the same show when the moon came up over the ridge, and everyone started howling! What a great close to a great weekend!   

[headlight]

Well.... In no particular order and certainly not inclusive...

Sunday AM Gospel; always a treat, spiritually that is!

The Boom Chicks

All the local boys and girls who have made us part of their place!

Ditto, what someone said above about the Waifs sets at the Fly me to the moon, many years ago; goes for the Donna the Buffalo set there as well. Too bad they don't travel out here more often, but certainly understand their position on it, That bus only has so many miles left in it!

The Festival Food

Fish Tacos in town!


 Listening to: Rowan and Rice