Telluride Bluegrass House Band. Photo by Benko Photographics.

Lyons, CO., — Planet Bluegrass has announced the preliminary lineup for the 37th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival including Sam Bush Band; Yonder Mountain String Band; Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain & Edgar Meyer; Del McCoury Band; Hot Rize; and many others.

The venerable roots music festival is held the weekend closest to the summer solstice, June 17-20, in the rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Tickets and camping go on sale at 9am MST, on Wednesday, December 9 at 800-624-2422 or www.bluegrass.com.

Camping passes for the festival’s longest-running campground, Town Park, sold out in November using an online lottery with entries from 47 different US states and many foreign countries. A limited number of holiday-priced 4-day passes ($30 discount) will be available beginning December 9. These discount passes typically sell-out within several weeks.

37th Telluride Bluegrass Festival lineup

• Sam Bush Band
• Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer
• Yonder Mountain String Band
• Telluride House Band featuring Sam, Bela, Jerry, Edgar, Bryan & Stuart
• Del McCoury Band
• Hot Rize
• Leftover Salmon
• Tim O’Brien Band
• Jerry Douglas
• Josh Ritter Band
• Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
• Peter Rowan
• Carolina Chocolate Drops
• John Cowan Band
• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
• Imelda May
• Cadillac Sky
• Mumford & Sons
• The Drepung Monks
• Sarah Jarosz
• The Hillbenders

And many more still to be announced