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URL icon « Reply #15 on: March 06, 2009, 03:48:11 PM »
I still don't get it:
is Nightgrass during Telluride? Is it the same location? Why is it so special?
I know I'm risking sounding like a disgraceful novice, but I really need to know...

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URL icon « Reply #16 on: March 06, 2009, 04:42:53 PM »
Quote from: lalagay on March 06, 2009, 03:48:11 PM
I still don't get it:
is Nightgrass during Telluride? Is it the same location? Why is it so special?
I know I'm risking sounding like a disgraceful novice, but I really need to know...

Nightgrass is a series of shows that happens in venues around town at night. Usually starting around 10:30pm and going until 1:30-2:00am. (music stops at the festival proper at midnight).

The venues are less than 300 people...and you must purchase a ticket separate from your festival pass to attend. Some of those tickets sell out immediately, some are available longer...hence the ruckus about when tickets will go on sale.

Many great acts play small intimate venues as apart of the Nightgrass series every year...often times the Nightgrass series is the only time to see some bands play in such small rooms. (Yonder Mountain String Band being the most obvious annual show to fit this description)

...does that help? Flower
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URL icon « Reply #17 on: March 06, 2009, 05:24:04 PM »
Thanks BluegrassDustin you're an absolute star !  Medal
I now consider myself adequately informed  Cheers

The problem now is...I'm going to start suffering from OND (obsessive nightgrass disorder)!!  LOL

Nightgrass really sounds like a treat not to miss out on...
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URL icon « Reply #18 on: March 07, 2009, 01:55:54 AM »
Ladybug.. for your first year it really doesn't matter which Nightgrass show you get to , if any. Even if you don't get your first choice, you will be thrilled to get to the less popular show, given your vast knowledge of the music being presented.  Thumbs Up

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URL icon « Reply #19 on: March 07, 2009, 07:15:08 AM »
Auntie Hope you're too sweet  Thumbs Up  thanks  Flower
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URL icon « Reply #20 on: March 07, 2009, 03:54:18 PM »
Any idea on cost for nightgrass shows?

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URL icon « Reply #21 on: March 07, 2009, 04:15:04 PM »
$25 maybe?
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URL icon « Reply #22 on: March 08, 2009, 03:24:33 PM »
Yes, depending on the act and venue, the nightgrass tickets range from $25-$35.   The prized posession seems to be Yonder at Sheridan Opera House, which sold out in about 5 mins last year.  (Sheridan holds approx. 300 people) 

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URL icon « Reply #23 on: March 08, 2009, 03:29:18 PM »
And what about theYMSB gig in MTN Village?  huh Anyone have any details about that?
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URL icon « Reply #24 on: March 08, 2009, 06:48:31 PM »
Yeah mountain village is a hell of a way to spend a wednesday evening in Colorado seein Yonder. Ticket wasn't that hard to come by preparty with a bunch of well everybody because everybody is prepartyin and then you make the trek up to mountain village which is just a long line of festivarians snakin through town and up the gondola to party with Yonder that is the details of Yonder Mountain Village  Cheers

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URL icon « Reply #25 on: March 09, 2009, 05:34:28 AM »
So, between the daytime shows, Nightgrass, Workshops, pickin' parties and general festivatin'...when do you sleep. huh huh


(Being a newbie, I know I can ask that question safe in the knowledge that I'll get sane, responsible replies!.  Wink)

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URL icon « Reply #26 on: March 09, 2009, 07:59:08 AM »
I see us UK newbies have similar concerns Boogiefool  :)

I am seriously worried that basic survival related activities (eating, sleeping..) just won't fit into this tightly packed schedule!

Maybe we can make it by eating energy bars at regular 2 hour intervals and having 30 min power naps in our seats between daytime sets...

Any ideas?
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URL icon « Reply #27 on: March 09, 2009, 08:30:52 AM »
If I'm getting this excited at the prospect of TBF I can't imagine what I'll be like when I'm there. I'm beginning to think any kind of sleep will be a luxury.

I do like the idea of drifting off as somebody's picking out a tune. Thumbs Up

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URL icon « Reply #28 on: March 09, 2009, 08:57:51 AM »
Quote from: Boogiefool on March 09, 2009, 08:30:52 AM
If I'm getting this excited at the prospect of TBF I can't imagine what I'll be like when I'm there. I'm beginning to think any kind of sleep will be a luxury.

I do like the idea of drifting off as somebody's picking out a tune. Thumbs Up

Can you really 'drift off' to a b*njo doing Foggy Mountain Breakdown at 100 miles per hour?  I'm can imagine getting ready to finally sleep - but as soon as I hear music, I'd want to be back outside the tent joining in with the picking.


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URL icon « Reply #29 on: March 09, 2009, 09:01:03 AM »
i found myself, at times of intense exhaustion, able to put my hat over my face and stretch out on my blanket on a beautiful telluride day. sleep came quite easy. i guess it just depends on who you are.  :)

that said ... i'm not one of the people who does the tarp run, etc. i found it quite easy to stand up front during the bands i 'needed' to be close for and to relax at a reasonable distance for the others. that's just the way i approach the festival, though.
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