2022 Sunset Blues Concert At The Telluride Transfer Warehouse
Join us our free Sunset Blues Concert on Thursday, September 15 from 5-7 pm
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Kick off the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in the heart of downtown Telluride featuring Eddie 9V and Ghalia Volt! The Sunset Blues Concert will be held at the historic, open-air Telluride Transfer Warehouse. The event is free and open to the public, and the event is rain or shine.
The Sunset Blues Concert is made possible by the generous support by Sierra Nevada Brewing Co, and the Telluride Arts District.
The trick to getting through the COVID-19 pandemic was to diligently seek out and be grateful for the silver linings. For artists and musicians suddenly denied not only income, but the driving desire to share their music with a live audience, the pandemic was particularly cruel. But Ghalia Volt was undaunted despite shuttered venues and recording studios. She dug deep and decided to go it alone. Welcome to One Woman Band. It’s a band with a big, fierce, driving sound and it’s just Ghalia on drums, guitar and vocals. From her experience busking in her native Brussels, she was confident she could make magic. A tour through Mississippi proved it and here she is, setting fire to our mountain stage. We’ll call that a pandemic silver lining.
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Nod knowingly if you were one of those kids who wished you could chuck the college and 9-to-5 track and follow your real dreams. Eddie 9V did just that, letting his old soul instincts carry him where he needed to go —straight to the Atlanta blues scene. A multi-instrumentalist that has come a long way from his first guitar — with a built-in speaker! — he first grabbed the music world’s attention with Left My Soul in Memphis in 2019, a hot, loose session recorded in his mobile trailer with his brother Lane Kelly at the knobs. Next up, in 2021, came Little Black Flies, a record in which he sought the soulful sound of cats like Albert Collins, Otis Rush and Michael Bloomfield. He’s always “studied the older cats,” he says, wanting to learn “what made them groove and tick.” When you hear Eddie 9V groove and tick, you’ll know he found what he was looking for when he eschewed academia for the blues.
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The Transfer Warehouse has been a vital place of exchange for over a century. Once the central axis for the transfer of goods and supplies, it is now a public center for the transfer of arts and ideas. Small yet mighty, like Telluride, the flexible space will liberate, incubate, and amplify artists’ voices.
In the early 1900's, during the height of the mining boom, the only way in and out of town was by narrow-gauge railroad. The tracks ran alongside this very same corridor known then as the Warehouse District: a bustling hub of people and goods flowing in and out of the city. When the boom ended, Telluride became all but a ghost town, and many of the structures were left for ruin. However two of the buildings located on property, the Stronghouse (now Telluride’s newest craft brewery) and in particular the Transfer Warehouse still stand today as historic landmarks and reminders of their time.
Festival Transportation
During the festival weekend, gondola operating hours are from 6:30 am to 2:00 am Friday and Saturday, and until 1 am Sunday. Long lines are possible during peak times. For more information about parking and getting around Telluride, click here.