What are your best TBF memories?

[landshark]

Oh, Oh, Oh !!! Yet another best TBF memory, all those beautiful MANDOLINS!!!! All at once on stage!!!! That is the only time I wish I had a camera....... Did anyone get a good shot of that..... Big bright beautiful smiles and those Mandolins singing all together, clear and clean.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!

[Moonbeam]

Excuse the late night post, but I'm still on Colorado time here in GA.  I'm going to bed at 1 a.m. and sleeping in till 10 a.m. EST
 
Well, this was my first festival experience and I had a blast.  I'll try to remember my absolute favorite top 10 great memories.

1.  My brother, Hooch, taking me around the first night introducing me to everyone while proudly saying, "this is my sister!" *tear* Then, getting hugs from everyone.
2.  A fun night with Anne finding items to secretly put outside Hot Mess' tent and laughing hysterically during and after.
3.  A fantastic late night concert dancing like crazy along with Billy B and Doug.  Dancing back to the port-a-lets at the end of the night.
4.  The rush of seeing my husband, lil' Wayne, run the tarp each morning. 
5.  Seeing Hooch come out of his tent on the last day with 2 bottles of whip cream and other random items. *I have the pic!
6.  Any random time Hot Mess couldn't find something or borrowed something.  That kept me laughing the whole time.
7.  The Moonbeam pie that Cindy Lou made us.  I snuck two pieces because it was oh soooo good! 
8.  Taking pictures of random eccentric people as well as amazing hula hoopers/jugglers.
9.  Laying in my tent and waking up to Alison Krauss and realizing that I should not be in my tent ever again during her concert.
10.  Getting my picture taken with my brother and a Monk.  It's not every day that happens.


 Listening to: Reruns on the tube

[Hot Sugar]

Getting the chance to thank Sam Bush for being the driving force behind me getting into bluegrass. That was beyond amazing.

[landshark]

Beautiful men in tutus Johnny Cash and the moon...ahhhhh is time yet.....?

[UselessJo]

  Meeting all (or most of ) you folks in '09. Truly an experience we have not/will not forget.

 Listening to: Donna Hughes..bottom of a glass

[landshark]

The Barenaked Ladies set. They sound better live if that's possible.

[UselessJo]

bare naked ladies are always better live....duh!

[Cindy Lou]

The Barenaked Ladies set. They sound better live if that's possible.

That was a great set; I actually remember it too!     

[fruitionmandolin]

definitely the stand-out memory was re-meeting gillian and dave and having them remember me and my band (Fruition) from their show in portland four months prior.

when asking dave how he liked the cd, his answer was, 'i've listened to the first three songs. i like the first song.'

works for me, dave, yes!!

[Jaci]

My husband and I got married on June 21st, 1998, the 25th Anniversary Festival. It was our first year there. We didn't know what to expect when we showed up on Thursday at about noon. We had our tarp and our lawn chairs, but the festival grounds were full already. We stood there, looking forelorn at all the tarps in all the best places. Finally, I spotted two young ladies who were dancing on their tarp and looking out toward the dirt path where we stood. Soon, I got the courage to approach them and ask if we could please sit on their tarp for just a minute. They said "Sure" and believe it or not, we've been camping and sharing tarp space with them and the rest of their tarp ever since, even though not all of the originals are back every year anymore and we've added a few newbies since then. This June will be our 13th consecutive year at Telluride Bluegrass Festival. We celebrate every wedding anniversary for a week with the best friends in the world! Can't beat that! Now then, I have to say there was a special night one year when Sam was playing at the end of the night, and the lights came on, and he spoke to all of us, and it was a mystical experience. Yes, the NickleCreek set at The Sheridan was incredible! Too many more......

 Listening to: Sam Bush Band: Spirit is the Journey

[Jaci]

When Bonnie Raitt walked out on stage as a surprise one year and when Bruce Hornsby called Jackson Brown a short little fucker in a teasing tone of voice that same year. The trio of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Emmy Lou Harris, and Sean Colvin singing Donovan's Cast Your Fate to the Wind and In My Life a capella in the hot sun one afternoon. Discovering and loving the Horseflies one night in a late night set. Watching NickleCreek from the balcony at the Sheridan Opera House. 

And of course, celebrating our wedding anniversary with our tarpmates and Town Park Family every year during the festival.

 Listening to: Monte Montgomery : I Know You By heart

[landshark]

The Blind Boys Of Alabama gospel set. It was sooo full, so deep, so Sunday.

Soloman Burkes' set also on Sunday and the way he spoke to us on the importance of being a good father(it was fathers day). Just tore me up and I can remeber his words to this day.

Sundays, all the Sundays at TFB are very special, packed with great Gospel and strong message.

We are family for real. All of us. If just for one day

[laughingflyinglemur]

First time I saw New Grass Revival.  My first TBF.  Not sure, but must have been...1982?  Maybe 83?  It's pretty fuzzy.

Only been back for the fest twice since.  In 1992 the fest was two weeks before my first and only wedding.  I snapped my ankle the first night and hobbled around on crutches the whole weekend.  We returned a few years later when I was much more mobile.  Remember Poi Dog Pondering?  I wish I could bring Teresa this year but she's more inclined to hang with our dogs these days.  No problem, though.  They'll be waiting for me when I get home.

This wasn't TBF, but Grateful Dead in Telluride was certainly epic, especially the drum parade through the center of town, banging on my dumbek while marching (if you can call it that) right next to Mickey.  That was kind of the end of an era for me.  Lots of good friends at that show - college/Boulder buds - haven't seen since or hardly.  I've stayed off facebook for fear they might try to find me.     Scare me...

[meanderingjeeper]

you can't bring in your own alcohol

haha.  the year the guy got caught trying to sneak a 6-pack underneath his kid in the stroller and gave his wife who was giving him looks of death the 'Who me?' look....ahhhhh good stuff.

or the time the guy tried to trade a tv from the free box for entry...hah.

 Listening to: Go State!

[KaraJean]

Introducing my baby sister the the magic of the TBF.