SnowyGrass Music Festival 2021

The 6th Annual SnowyGrass Music Festival will be held July 30-31 in Estes Park, presented by Upstream Concerts and Estes Park, Colorado (www.visitestespark.com)

--in partnership with Snowy Peaks Winery & Ziggi’s Coffee. It features 9 Bluegrass and Americana Bands.

THE SPECIAL CONSENSUS

BLUE CANYON BOYS-sponsored by Colorado Bluegrass Music Society

RAPIDGRASS

CPG ALLSTARS featuring: Melody Walker (Front Country), Enion Pelta-Tiller (TAARKA), Bonnie Sims, Erin Youngberg (FY5), and Megan Cody (Cody Sisters)

-sponsored by Moxie Bread Company.

CHAIN STATION

BUFFALO COMMONS

D&N BAND

BOTTLEROCKET HURRICANE

JAMESONS TRIO

The Special Consensus is a bluegrass band that has achieved a contemporary sound in their four decades of performing, making their music a modern classic. The band is led by Greg Cahill (banjo player and recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America Hall of Greats) and includes Greg Blake (guitar), Dan Eubanks (bass) and Nate Burie (mandolin). Special Consensus has received six awards from the IBMA and two Grammy nominations.

The Blue Canyon Boys are equal parts purists and innovators when it comes to Bluegrass: they stay true to the form’s roots while constantly reimagining their relationship to tradition. The result is a toe-tapping mix of haunting standards, genre-bending arrangements, and catchy original numbers—all built on the bedrock of their collective bluegrass mastery.Ever since founding members Jason Hicks and Gary Dark launched the Blue Canyon Boys in 2006, the Blue Canyon Boys have raised the bar for bluegrass bands. They bring it all: seamless brother-duet style, crisp instrumentation, unvarnished lyrics and subversive humor. After winning first place 2008 Telluride Bluegrass festival band contest, the Blue Canyon Boys went off at full tilt, taking the bluegrass circuit by storm, performing in illustrious venues across the country as well as internationally.

Rapidgrass embodies the notion that nature, and particularly mountains, can bring out the best in our art, and we have dedicated much of our creative energy into bringing that art back to the people of the mountains. Rapidgrass focuses on travel to mountain towns and inspires mountain people and athletes around the globe. Our music is motivated by and made for those who find peace in the mountains. We focus our energy on outdoor mountain lifestyle/culture events. Focusing our travels to mountain towns has also given us a great palate of mountain music styles to draw from including styles from North America, France, Italy, Russia, Tibet, Argentina, and Ireland.

The festival kicks off on Friday, July 30 at 4 pm with a no-cover show at Snowy Peaks Winery. (Reservations well in advance are strongly recommended.) CHAIN STATION will begin at 6:15 pm on the SnowyGrass stage followed by SPECIAL CONSENSUS. Tickets required.

Saturday begins with a Bluegrass Jam Workshop hosted by Colorado Bluegrass Music Society. Bring your acoustic, stringed instrument to participate. Donations to CBMS will be greatly appreciated. Musical performances begin at 11 am with D&N Band, followed by Bottlerocket Hurricane, Buffalo Commons, CPG Allstars, Blue Canyon Boys & Rapidgrass.

The festival kicks off on Friday, July 30 at 4 pm with a no-cover show at Snowy Peaks Winery. (Reservations well in advance are strongly recommended.) CHAIN STATION will begin at 6:15 pm on the SnowyGrass stage followed by SPECIAL CONSENSUS. Tickets required.

No onsite camping.

Local food trucks and other vendors will be on hand. Please bring low-back chairs, and prepare for rain or sun. Be prepared for wearing your face covering upon entry and when moving about the festival. Baldwin Park is located at 271 Ivy St, Estes Park.

A Message from SnowyGrass Music Festival in Estes Park:

Good Morning--

We hope you are all well, and we are looking forward to seeing you at SnowyGrass.

In light of the new CDC guidelines, lifting of all local public health orders related to COVID-19, and the impending official removal of such orders by the State of Colorado, we will increase capacity at our event. We still do not want to crowd people in--we want you to be comfortable with this, and comfortable in general.

Here are some resources for this new guidance:

Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People | CDC

Larimer County Dial: Business, Gatherings, Events, and Activities Guidance | Larimer County

Home | Colorado.gov

Taken from Forbes.com:

CRUCIAL QUOTE

Asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper how restaurants, airlines and others are “supposed to know if the people coming to their establishment” are vaccinated, Dr. Anthony Fauci responded, "Well, Jake, they will not be able to know. You're gonna be depending on people being honest enough to say whether they are vaccinated or not."

How does this affect your attendance at SnowyGrass?

The new guidelines depend on an honor system. We are going to plan our seating chart (yes, still a seating chart) with 6 ft aisles and seating areas/pods/corrals with 3 ft between. This is to give you space and comfort. We ask that if you are not vaccinated, you follow the CDC guidelines for mask wearing and distancing in protection of yourself and other unvaccinated people. You would need to let us know that you need 6 around you. Again--this is an honor system.

If you are vaccinated, should this concern you?

"The science demonstrates that if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected," Walensky said. "It is the people who are not fully vaccinated in those settings, who might not be wearing a mask, who are not protected. And it is those people that we are encouraging to get vaccinated and to wear a mask and to physically distance. So if you are vaccinated in those settings, you certainly could wear a mask if you wanted to, but we are saying in those settings, based on the science, that it is safe." --CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky

If you still are uncomfortable not having a full 6 feet between your group and others, please contact us.

Thank you for keeping communication open as we all transition and navigate these changes, while staying healthy!

Visit www.snowygrass.com for schedule, tickets and more information.

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