Telluride Colorado Entertainment & Events

Special Events

• Wild West Fest
  Held at Sheridan Opera House and Other Venues
  970-728-6363
  The Sheridan Arts Foundation's annual Wild West Fest strives "to provide an esteem building experience for each child that allows them to challenge themselves in a supportive and non-competitive environment."  more...

• Telluride Film Festival
  510-665-9494
  The Telluride Film Festival will feature more than 50 programs screened in nine venues over Labor Day weekend. more...

• Telluride Yoga Festival [Thursday, Jul. 11, 2013]
  P.O. Box 1945 • Telluride, CO 81435
  970-708-9631
  A yoga event based on the teachings of karma yoga, the annual Telluride Yoga Festival takes place in July. more...

Concerts & Performances

• Sheridan Opera House
  268 Pacific Avenue • Telluride, CO 81435
  970-728-6363
  Located in a 1913 building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this intimate 240 seat opera house showcases some of today's most popular performers. The theatre also features a dance floor, conference center, and movie theatre. more...

Festivals & Fairs

• Shroomfest the Telluride Mushroom Festival
  970-327-4767
  Shroomfest explores all aspects of the fungal world, from gourmet wild edibles to medicinal ‘shrooms, and toxins to entheogens. Taking place each August this four-day event includes slide presentations, lectures, forays, dance, poetry and music performances, discussion groups, panels, a hands-on growing workshop, parade, movies, an identification fair, numerous local restaurants offering gourmet wild mushroom specials and much more. more...
  Sponsored By: The Telluride Institute, Inc.

• Telluride Festival of the Arts
  113 Lost Creek Lane, Suite A • Mountain Village, CO 81435
  303-355-2787
  An annual weekend-long, culinary and visual arts event that is produced by the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, the Telluride Festival of the Arts features national and regional professional visual artists from across the United States.  more...

• Mountainfilm Festival [Friday, May. 24, 2013]
  109 East Colorado Avenue, Suite 1 • Telluride, CO 81435
  Held at Various Locations
  970-728-4123
  "One of America’s longest-running film festivals," the four-day Mountainfilm in Telluride screens leading independent documentary films from around the world and includes a full-day symposium on a critical contemporary issue, art and photography exhibits, early morning coffee talks, a book signing party, an ice cream social, student programs and a closing picnic/awards ceremony.  more...

• Telluride Bluegrass Festival [Thursday, Jun. 20, 2013]
  800-624-2422
  The four-day Telluride Bluegrass Festival features only-in-Telluride performances, including virtuosic bluegrass superpickers, soulful songwriters and some of the biggest stars in the rootsy Americana landscape. All day music on the main stage, intimate workshops on the Elks Park stage, band and songwriting contests, late-night Nightgrass concerts, and jam sessions throughout the night are just some of what is scheduled during the annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. more...

• Telluride Wine Festival [Thursday, Jun. 27, 2013]
  Held at Various Locations
  212-766-4335
  Enjoy "amazing wines, lively lunches and seminars, unbelievably delicious food, thirst quenching cocktails, and live music" at the annual Telluride Wine Festival.. more...

• Telluride Jazz Celebration [Friday, Aug. 2, 2013]
  P.O. Box 2132 • Telluride, CO 81435
  970-728-7009
  The annual Telluride Jazz Celebration features the best in classic, mainstream, blues, Brazilian, African and Latin jazz music. Performances are staged outdoors in the daytime and in intimate clubs and historic concert halls at night. more...

• Telluride Blues & Brews Festival [Friday, Sep. 13, 2013]
  P.O. Box 2966 • Telluride, CO 81435
  Held at Telluride Town Park
  866-515-6166
  The three-day, three-night Telluride Blues & Brews Festival takes place each September.. more...