Leslie Vreeland

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

Text and email messages rang out from the San Miguel County Alert & Warning System early Thursday, offering a hint of what is to come: a growing risk of wildfires. “Red flag warnings are in effect across San Miguel County today and tomorrow for high temperatures, low humidity, dry fuels and gusty winds,” it read. “These conditions will allow fires to catch and spread quickly.

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

Each year, before guests set foot in Town Park, a group of artists has helped establish that quintessentially blissed-out, unmistakable feeling that is Telluride Bluegrass. “A big part of the visual theme this year was bringing more happiness to the table,” Ann Hall said. Hall is the co-artistic director and supervisor, along with her “partner-in-artistry,” Jacob Leeuwenburgh, of the so-called Foof Crew, the team tasked with helping to conjure that bliss via the colorful visuals.

1 week ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

What sort of chamber-music festival kicks off with a literal boom — the resonant sound of dozens of hands striking frame drums? A uniquely Telluride kind of music fest. “Frame drums are not typically a classical (music) type of drum,” Claire Beard, the executive director of Telluride Chamber Music, acknowledged.

2 weeks ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

It may not be as well known as Telluride Mountainfilm, but there is another smaller, younger film festival in this region that takes inspiration from the local geography. Its purpose is right there in its subtitle: “Because movies and mountains can change your life.”Documentarian Jordan Campbell, the director of “Ukraine Under Fire: A Film About War & Resilience” (2025) is an example of the co-mingling between journalistic drive, and community support, and how far it can help take you.

2 weeks ago | telluridenews.com | Leslie Vreeland

Coming together over a shared meal and a beverage or two is a time-honored way to nurture friendships — “meaningful relationships with locals and visitors,” as the Telluride Food & Vine Festival describes it. Yet delicious repasts prepared by celebrated chefs isn’t the only point of this fest, nor even the most important one — because Food & Vine benefits other, less-visible aspects of this community by supporting One to One Mentoring.