2013 Festival Tickets
Psst... due to recent artist/staff changes, a very limited number of Sunday passes are now available in-person at the box office in Telluride.
A few remaining camping spaces for the 40th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival are still onsale at shop.bluegrass.com or 800-624-2422. All 4-day passes originally sold-out in less than 4 hours on December 5, followed by Saturday and Friday single-day tickets a few days later. Thursday and Sunday tickets were gone within a few hours of the announcement of the single-day lineup.
Please note the important ticketing changes below for 2013, including email barcode tickets, a limit of 4 tickets per order, and earlier availability of single-day tickets.
As always, the price listed here is the final price you pay - we charge no handling fees of any kind. Once you have your tickets, connect with your fellow Telluride Festivarians.
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| 4-day Festival Pass |
Limited discount price (while supplies last) |
$180 |
Sold-out |
| Advance price | $195 |
Sold-out | |
| Thursday Festival Pass |
$65 |
Sold-out | |
| Friday Festival Pass |
$65 |
Sold-out | |
| Saturday Festival Pass |
$65 |
Sold-out | |
| Sunday Festival Pass |
$65 |
Sold-out | |
| NightGrass Shows | More info available in Spring... | ||
| 2013 Telluride Bluegrass Camping | |||
| Mary E. Ilium Camping 4-day Festival Pass required |
$50
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Tickets are still available in-person at the campground | |
| Town Park Camping w/ 4-day Festival Pass Sold via online lottery open November 5-14 |
$290 |
Sold-out via online lottery |
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| Town Park Vehicle Pass Town Park camping pass required. Sold via online lottery open November 5-14 |
$180 |
Sold-out via online lottery |
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| Warner Field Camping w/ 4-day Festival Pass Sold via online lottery open November 5-14 |
$290 |
Sold-out via online lottery |
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| High School Camping 4-day Festival Pass required |
$60
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Sold-out | |
| Lawson Hill Camping Single-Day or 4-day Festival Pass required |
$55 |
Sold-out | |
| Mary E. Ilium Vehicle Pass Mary E Ilium camping pass required |
$50
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Sold-out | |
| Lawson Hill RV 4-day Festival Pass required |
$175
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Sold-out | |
Children 12 and under are free for festival and camping with a paying adult. Tickets are refundable according to our refund policy. Please note: Resale of Telluride Bluegrass Festival and NightGrass tickets for more than the initial value is extremely un-festivarian and strictly forbidden.
Festival Box Office
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| Festival box office |
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The Festival box office is located at the east end of Pacific Avenue, right next to the main festival entrance and across from the Telluride Post Office. You can't miss it. The 2013 festival box office hours are:
- Saturday, June 15: 10am - 6pm
- Sunday, June 16: 10am - 6pm
- Monday, June 17: 10am - 6pm
- Tuesday, June 18: 10am - 6pm
- Wednesday, June 19: 9am - 9pm
- Thursday, June 20: 8am - close
- Friday, June 21: 9am - close
- Saturday, June 22: 9am - close
- Sunday, June 23: 9am - 8pm
Ticketing Changes for 2013
Tickets for last year's festival sold-out months earlier than ever in the festival's 39 year history – discount tickets were gone in 2 hours; 4-day passes sold-out just 18 days later; single-day tickets sold-out via online lottery in early February. As we prepare for this historic 40th Anniversary festival, we've made some changes to get tickets to as many dedicated Festivarians as possible.
Email Barcode Tickets
All tickets for the 2013 Telluride Bluegrass Festival will either be emailed (as PDF attachments containing a barcode) or held at will-call. These emailed barcode tickets need to be printed at home and scanned at the festival box office. By upgrading our system to barcode tickets, we aim to deter scalpers and avoid incidents of tickets lost in the mail. We will be using the same system that we have been successfully employing and refining at our Lyons festivals for the past several years. Of course, if you prefer not to use these new email / barcode tickets you can elect to have your tickets held at will-call. As always, there are no service fees for any Planet Bluegrass tickets.
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| Telluride Festivarian (photo Benko Photographics) |
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Earlier Single-Day Ticket Onsale
This year, for the first time, we will begin selling single-day tickets on the same day that 4-day passes go onsale (Wednesday, December 5). In past years, we have waited to begin selling single-day tickets until we could announce the complete single-day lineup – typically sometime in late winter. Rather than forcing ourselves into another single-day ticket lottery (as we had to do in 2012), we have decided to make this year's tickets available much earlier, prior to the single-day lineup announcement.
More Discount 4-Day Passes
Our limited allotment of discounted 4-day passes (previously referred to as "holiday-discount" tickets) has been selling-out faster each year, with last year's discount tickets gone in just 2 hours. In order to reward more of our most dedicated Festivarians with discounted 4-day passes, we have significantly increased the number of discounted 4-day passes, while reducing the amount of the discount to $15 per ticket.
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| Bela Fleck & Chris Thile (photo Benko Photographics) |
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Ticket Limits
You will be limited to a maximum of 4 tickets of a given type (e.g. 4-day pass, Friday single-day) per order. After enforcing several different ticket limits last year (8 for 4-day passes, 2 for single-day tickets), this new limit of 4 tickets per order is intended to get tickets to as many Festivarians as possible, while limiting large purchases by scalpers.
Online Lottery for Warner Field Campground
As we have done with Town Park camping passes for more than a decade, Warner Field camping passes are being sold via an online lottery. With the demand for Warner Field camping growing dramatically for the past few years (last year's passes sold-out in under an hour!), a lottery has become the only way to fairly sell these very in-demand passes.