My Neighbors of Telluride Bluegrass Festival

Many of you, or even most of you, know I made the trek to Telluride Bluegrass Festival in June.

Bucket list trip of a lifetime.

Now, I've always considered myself a professional when it comes to these things.

I've been going to festivals for a long time.

So of course, I did research.

What weather should I expect? What climate should I expect? I need to be prepared.

Well, I had almost all of my cold weather gear.

I was expecting 40-degree temperatures at night, maybe even upper 30s, but the high for the whole week was 75.

Majority of the week it was 73, 72, 70.

I didn't even think to take my E-Z Up.

I had no shade available.

What I didn't know is 75 degrees that much closer to the sun than what I'm accustomed to is that much hotter.

The air is thinner.

There's less between you and the sun, and you're 10,000 feet closer.

So anyway, really, really hot.

Lucky for me, I learned quite quickly that Telluride is the most chill, laid-back festival in the world, and everybody is family.

Everybody can be trusted.

There are no strangers.

And my next-tent neighbors, Jeremy Tavor from Denver, Joe Harrison from Seattle, and Ben Solomon from Seattle, took me in, shared their shade, shared their camp, and we ended up having an amazing Telluride experience.

So after this bucket list trip, I decided why not feature some amazing bluegrass fans on Tee Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass? Because without the fans, we would have no musicians, therefore the fans are equally important to the music itself.

So with that, let's go to my conversation with my three neighbors.

Today we're taking Tee Shaw's Progressive Bluegrass in a slightly different direction.

I have my immediate neighbors from Telluride Bluegrass, Ben, Joe, and Jeremy joining us today.

I got there Wednesday afternoon and set up camp, and they arrived sometime after I left to go to First Grass and see East Nash Grass.

And when I came back, they were nowhere to be found, but their camp was set up, and one of the three tents that they had was literally backed up against my tent.