Ryan Adams, DiFranco, Thile, more to play Telluride fest

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals and Arlo Guthrie have been added to the lineup of the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival, to take place June 19-22 in Telluride, Colo.

In addition to headliners Adams and Guthrie, this year’s festival features an impressive mix of up-and-coming artists and veteran performers. Southern songbird Tift Merritt, former Nickel Creek member Chris Thile and his band the Punch Brothers, and indie veteran Ani DiFranco will take the Telluride stage, as will Oscar darlings Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, The Swell Season. Hansard will also be playing with his band The Frames, in one of only a handful of performances scheduled for 2008.

Tickets, camping permits and lodging for this year’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival are available now at Bluegrass.com.

The complete 2008 Telluride lineup is as follows:

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals, Sam Bush Band, Ani DiFranco Band, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder, Telluride House Band featuring Sam, Béla, Jerry, Edgar & Bryan, Arlo Guthrie, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Swell Season: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova from the film Once, Hot Rize with Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers, Paolo Nutini, Béla Fleck, Duos with Friends, Tim O’Brien, Del McCoury Band, Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile, Peter Rowan & the Free Mexican Airforce, Leftover Salmon, Jerry Douglas Band, The Frames, John Cowan & Darrell Scott Band, Edgar Meyer, Brett Dennen, Tift Merritt, Uncle Earl, The Emmitt Nershi Band, Solomon Burke, The Duhks, Cadillac Sky, Steep Canyon Rangers, Spring Creek Bluegrass Band

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