There is not bad sound anywhere in the park and some of the best sound guys in the nation are at the helm in Telluride for the Bluegrass Festival.
As far as that line is concerned, well... it forms the day before, on an unofficial level, across the dirt path from the actual line. At the given hour it moves across the dirt path and becomes "the official line". These folks are die-hard in the wool, down front, festivarians, tapers and line sitters for the traditional camps (everyone takes a turn, in shifts and then the tarp runners take the last shift in the morning).
The Tarp Line is an art, a tradition, and the subject of many a conversation, some even heated, but it's something many of us treasure year after year after year, because we know it's
just the start, our daily start, of something even bigger, the one thing we've planned for since we were there last year. Hearing those bagpipes means we're finally going to gather all the campgrounds in one place and celebrate as one big happy family at....
FESTIVVVAAALLL!!! 
Auntie Hope
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