Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2026: New Artists Spotlight
The long-running event returns June 18 – 21 at Telluride Town Park in Telluride, Colorado.
By Team JamBase May 5, 2026 • 1:49 pm PDT
Thousands of self-proclaimed “festivarians” make their pilgrimage to Telluride Bluegrass Festival every year — not only for the gorgeous backdrop the festival has provided for more than fifty years, or to gather with the same friends with whom they’ve repeatedly spent Summer solstices along the banks of the San Miguel — but thanks in part to the trust they have in the festival promoters’ knack for stitching together a world-class lineup, time and time again.
This year is no different, with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Shakey Graves, Larkin Poe, and Gregory Alan Isakov appearing alongside anointed Telluride Bluegrass mainstays like Greensky Bluegrass, Sam Bush Band, Sierra Hull, Punch Brothers, Leftover Salmon, and a whole lot more.
As we inch closer and closer to communing together once again in Telluride’s Town Park, let’s take a look at some of the new faces coming to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival stage in 2026. Want to join? Limited tickets and camping can be purchased here.
Maggie Antone
Maggie Antone and her band, The Rhinestones, have been igniting festival crowds for the past few years with a blend of spunk, sass, and sweetness— and really good songs. Antone’s debut album, Rhinestoned, was released via Thirty Tigers and her own label, Big Love, to a wave of critical acclaim, and her latest release, “The Devil’s Not In Hell,” is built entirely on her undeniable swagger and an earworm chorus.
A natural entertainer, Antone is leading the charge of next-generation, honky-tonking women to watch, and is a natural fit for the “plus” category of Telluride Bluegrass Festival’s “bluegrass plus” ethos. Antone hits the Telluride stage for the first time on Saturday, June 20th.
Boy Golden
Boy Golden cruised onto the scene with an outpouring of support for his breakthrough single, “KD and Lunch Meat,” and his most recent hit “Suffer” spent nine weeks atop the Alternative radio charts in his home country of Canada. A creative conduit for songwriter Liam Duncan to create honestly and freely, the Boy Golden project grants its creator access to an inner world only reachable through music.
“The lines between him and I are soluble,” Boy Golden states. “Whether it’s my spiritual beliefs, my way of living, my sexuality—it comes up in my writing and then I’m forced to reckon with it.”
Boy Golden’s latest, Best of Our Possible Lives, is understated and groovy, sure to connect with the engaged Telluride crowd. For his Telluride debut, Boy Golden joins the final day lineup on Sunday, June 21st.
Noeline Hofmann
Singer-songwriter Noeline Hofmann approaches her craft with an utmost reverence for, and command of, traditional country storytelling. Hailing from the Badlands of Southern Alberta, Canada, Hofmann draws deep inspiration from her experiences working in honky tonks and as a ranch hand across the prairies, making for image-rich lyricism, ripe with authenticity, and given life through her haunting voice.
Well decorated for her efforts as a recording artist, Hofmann is also hailed as a magnetic performer on stage, touring alongside artists such as Zach Bryan, Turnpike Troubadours, and Zach Top. Hofmann’s fine balance of thoughtful ballads and ripping honky tonk tunes is sure to garner a few thousand new fans at this year’s Bluegrass Festival on Thursday, June 18th and for those who arrive early, her FirstGrass performance at Sunset Plaza on Wednesday, June 17th.
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