Your 2011 Telluride Bluegrass Festival artist suggestion soap box...

[FestiTrey]

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES !!!  With a NightGrass show too...PLEASE!
Three Tall Pines
Railroad Earth
Hot Buttered Rum
Onion Creek Crawdaddies
Head For The Hills
Greensky Bluegrass
Water Tower Sting Band
30DB

[elliotsiff]

I will maybe have some more, but how about

Leon Russell

Ry Cooder

T-Bone Burnett and friends

Is time for more byrne?

Flecktones along with Alash, the amazing Tuvan group they are on tour with

Tom Waits

Klezmer music!  I'm lovin it and it is rockin Austin these days:
Mazel Tov Cocktail Hour http://www.myspace.com/mazeltovkocktailhour
and The Inheritance http://www.myspace.com/theinheritanceatx

[Capt. Telluride]

Railroad Earth
Greensky Bluegrass
John Prine
Townes Van Zandt
Trampled By Turtles
Jonatan Sexton(BIG LOVE!!!!)

and NO Eurotrash yuppie bands, please. People actually kill themselves at these bands' shows because they are so bad(i.e. Swell Season)

[Doc Mike]

Dave Alvin!!!!

[Ellen]

Trampled by Turtles for sure

Amanda Shaw & the Cute Guys - Talk about ripping it up at River City Roots Fest!!  You should all check out this amazing 19 yr. old cajun fiddler.

Travlin' McCourys & the Lee Boys

Super Chickin & the Fighting Cocks

Please don't ever make me go another summer without Darrell Scott

JJ Cale on stage with Sammy!!!

Nuff for now.




 Listening to: My conscience telling me I should get back to work

[miguel]

ray lamontagne

mavis staples

carolina chocolate drops

the giving tree band


 Listening to: Beg, Borrow & Steal by Ray LaMontagne

[Auntie Hope]

Flecktones along with Alash, the amazing Tuvan group they are on tour with


Alash is on tour with the Flecktones to promote their HOLIDAY ALBUM!  So, if you're looking for "Christmas in June" then yes, please invite Alash, but we'll need Jeff Coffin for that mix! 

Auntie Hope 

[Hot Sugar]

I forgot one of my anual requests on this thread.

Tony Furtado.

 Listening to: RRE

[Skeeter]

-Dehlia Low
-Chatham County Line
-Madeski, Martin & Wood
-Flecktones
-Franti, Spearhead w/ Sly & Robbie

 Listening to:  Chieftons- down the old plank road

[annpete]

Zac Brown would be a killer Fri/Sat closer
Tony Rice (in any form)
Tim OBrien
Dolly Parton (one can wish, right?)
Stringdusters
Ricky Skaggs
Del
The usuals (Sammy, Jerry, Bela, etc.)
Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen
JD Crowe
 

 Listening to: Skaggs & Rice

[Auntie Hope]

'da Dawg 

Get Grisman BACK! 

Auntie Hope 

[zack_adcock]

I should preface this by saying that it's really everyone else (at the Planet, the fans that suggest, etc.) that brings the music that I'm introduced to at TBF, which is almost always more lasting than the music I think I'm going to the festival to hear...

That said, in 2011 I'd love to see (in no real order):

Furthur (Weir/Lesh)
Buddy Miller (with his own set!)
Justin Townes Earle
David Rawlings/Gillian Welch (in some form)
Tony Rice (in any capacity)
Crooked Still (who ALWAYS blows me away)
Railroad Earth (who SOMETIMES blows me away)
Avett Brothers
John Prine
Wilco
Emmylou
Anything involving Stuart Duncan


I'll also note that, though it might seem like riding a high horse, I'm generally disappointed at the negativity toward bands that represent a risk that Planet Bluegrass has taken over the years. Bands like Swell Season, Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, and others represent the breadth of TBF to me and I'm ALWAYS more pleased than disappointed by the risks taken in the planning of this festival -- it's what keeps me coming back, even despite my own disappointment at times.

[HuckinFappy]

Oh major dittos on the Tony Furtado....tell him we miss him!

And I keep running into Cherryholmes....despite the fact I never hear anyone mention them, I've been digging them a lot recently

[dayton]

some ideas i'm really diggin so far from others...

Dehlia Low (we're hoping to have them play our wedding in Asheville about a month before festival next year, awesome suggestion!)

Dan Tyminski Band

Ray Lamontagne

Paul Simon (that would be Sweeeeeeeet )


and some new ones...

JD Crowe and New South Reunion would be amazing (JD Crowe, Tony Rice, Jerry Douglas, and Ricky Skaggs)

Donna Hughes (of which Tony Rice and JD Crowe have just produced her last two albums)

Horse Feathers (from Oregon, http://www.myspace.com/horsefeathersmusic )

and Rusted Root (such a good live show!)

 





 Listening to: Lenny Kravitz and Mick Jagger - Rosemary

[bouzouki]

Peter Rowan and either his Bluegrass or Free Mexican Airforce.
Swell Season was wonderful at Folks
Darrell Scott
Richard Thompson Band
Calexico
Duhks