Author Description

The "newgrass" genre was created by a generation of young musicians (Sam Bush and New Grass Revival, John Hartford, Peter Rowan, Tim O'Brien) who loved both traditional bluegrass and the rock music of their peers. In the 1970s, they came together in the beauty of the Colorado mountains for a party and a legendary musical ferment--a seminal precursor to the modern Americana movement. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival is now heralded as one of the world's most important outdoor festivals, a must-stop for every star in the musical galaxy. The Colorado Music Hall of Fame has now published Telluride Bluegrass Festival: The First Forty Years. For the past decade, CMHOF director and author G. Brown has searched through every library, historical society, newspaper morgue, and private collection to compile materials for this journalistic approach to the festival's history, a coffee-table book containing hundreds of images from award-winning photographers, and over 100 interviews with an array of performers and members of the community. Proceeds from book sales benefit the Colorado Music Hall of Fame, a nonprofit organization that educates the public on everything that's great about the state's music.