| Show Ali Telluride Bluegrass: The atmwd Colorado event has seen a steady showing 111 lhe Bridal Veil Falls Colorado's waterfall longest The scenery is here though while the array of talent gathered for the festival is more seasonal This year's lineup saw the traditional bluefTass of the Del McCoury Band the politically charged folk of Ani Di Franco the funk and soul th of Spearhead and the out-omusical explorations of Sam Bush known here as "King Sam" who has given his own 30 bend over backward to be nice free-fallin- DAN NAIVEN IAsk" Tribune TELLURIDE Cob — Rarely does losing concert tickets result in a happy ending - but sometimes it does -- Jim Witherspoon and his 'wife Janet both musicians from Salt Lake City first bought tickets to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 19115 but a couple weeks before heading to Colotickets inrado anet's purse was stolen A desperate side call to the festival's organizers resulted in an oiler Witherspoon couldn't refuse "They said You know what? If you want to come volunteer you can both volunteer six hours and we'll give you two tickets' Withersown said lie expected something like night security or garbage patrol "but they started us the first year in the box office where the numey is We did a really good Job and they invited us back and over the years we've become sort of integral to them" 20 years and 51 is part Dia core Witherspoon group of longtime volunteers among 12(X) people who trade time for tickets at one of the mulargest and longest-runninsic festivals in the country He is also part of a large Utah contingent of acoustic music fans who annually make the trek east at the summer solstice for ftiur days of world-clasmusicianship This year Witherspoon is flying solo leaving him free to socialize with his fellow "festivarians" in the parlance of Telluride regulars between shills at the festival's country store "I go to a lot of festivals and believe it or not my wife doesn't like sleeping on the ground 80 nights a year" Witherspoon said in moick amazement "She doesn't like drinking whiskey and staying up 'til 4 in the morning every night So she goes (to the festival every other year and I go every year" "People d year-roun- of longthne supporters f It's kind q weird" Festival volunteer years of playing the Telluride Bluegrass Fest 'val "I never thought I'd do t 'NI ( ! 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