14 | THURSDAY, JULY 28 - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2016 THE WATCH WATCH LISTEN SHOW

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with the help of the Promise each plus fees or Friday and of the Real who will join him Saturday single day passes are in Telluride. $125 each plus fees. Local’s Promise of the Real is tickets went on sale Tuesday fronted by Willie Nelson’s after my deadline. Tickets go sons Lukas and Micah Nelson. on sale to the general public The Nelson boys call Young Thursday, July 28 at 11 a.m. picks “Uncle Neil” after knowing MST online at NeilYoungTel- him through their father, and luride.com. their band name was inspired We’ve certainly had some RIDGWAY by lyrics from the song “Walk legends pass through the Box On.” Canyon, from the Grateful Sunday, August 1 fter months of Promise of the Real was Dead to to John The Sherbino Theater wraps up the month with its Living Room Lounge event speculation and formed in 2007, but it wasn’t Fogerty to James Brown, and this Sunday evening from 6-9 p.m. with a free celebration of creative talent waiting, and years until last year that they began this is sure to be a memorable from here and elsewhere. Tonight’s guests are musical duo Tony Kovacic and of dreaming and to play with Young when he weekend. David Fisher, on their fi rst U.S. tour (the Joe Cocker//David Lindley- scheming by locals asked them to back him on a This week’s Top 3 is a look inspired performers have been playing together up and down the Pacifi c coast andA music promoters, it’s fi- few songs at a show protesting at shows to catch during this of Mexico, from Puerto Vallarta to San Blas, since 2012). Local photographer nally official. will the Keystone Pipeline. Within relatively quiet weekend in Kristofer Noel displays works inspired by the mountains, deserts and rivers just be performing in Telluride a few months, Young invited Telluride: outside his Southwest Colorado door. The Sherb is looking for presenters for its Town Park on the newly reno- them to record last year’s “The upcoming Ignite event Wednesday, Aug. 10. If you have a passion, hobby, travels vated Fred Shellman Memo- Monsanto Years.” The concept 1. Carry on Wayward Son… or a story you would like to share, email [email protected]. rial Stage Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. album protesting genetically classic rockers Kansas plays As if this summer didn’t modified food and supporting the Avalon Theater in Grand OURAY have enough epic shows, we American farmers was Young’s Junction on Thursday. Tick- get one more tacked onto the 36th studio album. ets are $35-$68 and available Tuesday, Aug. 2 end of the season for good Just last month, Young re- at monumentalevents.com/ Few mine owners today could hope for the profi ts Albert E. Reynolds made on measure. Fingers crossed the leased “Earth,” 13 live songs events/Kansas. Doors open at his Revenue Mine. Reynolds purchased the property for $100,000 in 1880; by the weather cooperates. about nature and Earth’s living 6:30 p.m. and the show starts time he died in 1921, the mine had yielded more than $28 million in gold and Major kudos go to Steve things, and he has spent the at 7:30 p.m. Gumble, of Telluride Blues silver ore. Join Don Paulson, curator of the Ouray County Historical Museum, summer touring with Promise & Brews, Craig Ferguson, of for a presentation on the Virginius/Revenue mine this coming Tuesday evening of the Real. Just a week after 2. If you’re over the hill near Planet Bluegrass and Tellu- at 7 p.m. at the Wright Opera House. Paulson will illustrate his talk with archi- playing Telluride, Young will Durango’s Purgatory Resort ride Bluegrass Festival, and val photos of the mine, its mill, owner Albert Reynolds and property manager play the Desert Trip Festival this Saturday, check out Purg both of their staffs for joining Hubbard Reed, who ran Reynolds’ several other mining properties in Ouray and in Indio, California (the home Jam, a day long mini-festival forces to bring one of music’s San Miguel counties. Then go check out the Revenue’s remnants for yourself: of Coachella), with The Roll- featuring Jaden Carlson, El- most iconic songwriters and The current Ouray Silver Mine is located near the site of the former Revenue- ing Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul der Grown, Chava People and performers to our little part of Virginius, and some of the mine’s historic buildings are located along the Camp McCartney, Roger Waters and the Jade Robins Band. The the world. Bird road just southwest of Ouray. . If we’re lucky, maybe music and fun will be 1-8 p.m. Listening to Young’s music Young can recruit some of his Tickets are $10 in advance this past week was like revisit- REGION friends to come visit in Tellu- and $15 day off. ing an old friend you haven’t ride. A girl can dream, right? Wednesday, Aug. 3-Friday, Aug. 5 seen in ages, but you know “Neil Young is in that genre 3. The 40th annual Telluride them so well it’s as if no time The San Juan Mining and Reclamation Conference is next week, an annual and demographic that for me Jazz Fest is just around the has passed at all. Growing up gathering that brings together scientists, river stakeholders, mining interests screams ‘Telluride,’” Blues & corner. Each year they invite Young was one of the only art- and the public in an effort to educate on the topics of mine-lands remediation, Brews promoter Gumble said serious jazz students, ages 13- ists our entire family could water quality, improving mining practices and more. This year, the stakes seem in a release. “He’s been a big 18 to audition for a week in agree upon during Thanksgiv- part of many people’s lives for Telluride to work with some of higher than ever; it was only a year ago that the Gold King mine spill occurred ing and Christmas meals. decades. His style, his envi- the genre’s top instructors and above Silverton, turning the Animas River orange with millions of gallons of This two-time Rock and Roll ronmentalism — it’s a really eventually perform during the toxic, heavy-metal-laden mine waste. Suffi ce to say, mining and river-quality Hall of Fame inductee’s career good fit for Telluride. This is festival. Catch a sneak peek of is of region-wide interest. This year’s conference will be held in Durango — spans seven decades and sev- a dream come true, not only the Telluride Jazz All-Stars at where the effects of the Gold King spill were fi rst widely noticed — and offers eral different bands includ- for myself, but many people in the New Sheridan Historic Bar a fi eld tour of the Silverton Mining District on the one-year anniversary of ing Buffalo Springfield and Telluride. I am honored to be on Tuesday and Wednesday at the spill (Aug. 5). Mining and water-quality are in everybody’s interest in this Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young a part of these concerts, which 6:30 p.m. Enjoy a drink, and region; over the next two years, the conference moves to Ridgway and Telluride. and now he’s reinvigorated are sure to be legendary.” get a sneak peak of the future To learn more and register, visit mountainstudies.org. his live shows and rock sound Two-day passes are $199 of jazz music. 15th Annual San Juan Chamber MusicFest A National Juried Fine Arts Exhibit Aug. 3-9 Ouray Community Center 340 6th Avenue Ouray Ouray July 28-Aug 6, 2016 Ridgway Thurs and Fri July 28 & 29 10am to 7pm Sat and Sun July 30 & July 31 10am to 6pm Montrose Mon Aug 1 through Sat Aug 6th 10am to 5pm Presented by the Rusty Bicycles Ouray County Denise Bush Ouray County Arts Association Performing Arts Guild For more information, go to: www.ourayarts.org or call 970-626-5513 Tickets and info: www.ocpag.org