Wake up to a morning with live blues music, a hearty breakfast and drinks at Blues for Breakfast

Kicking off at 9:00 am on both Saturday and Sunday of the Festival weekend, Blues for Breakfast offers a pleasant warm up to a dynamic day and night full of music. Join us at the Elks Lodge (472 West Pacific Avenue), for a bite to eat as the first official chords of the day are struck. With comfortable seating along with rustic décor, Blues For Breakfast is the ideal setting to start your day off the right way!

Food and Drink Menu

The breakfast spread will feature classics like pancakes, scrambled eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, bacon and sausages. Hot coffee, cold orange juice and breakfast bar drinks will also be available.

Admission is free! Breakfast for adults will be $15. Breakfast for kids ages 10 and under are $5. Bloody Mary’s, Mimosas, and other breakfast bar drinks are extra.

SCHEDULE

Telluride Elks Lodge (472 West Pacific Avenue)

Telluride Blues Challenge Finals

The Blues for Breakfast stage will host six talented solo blues finalists battling for the top spot in the Telluride Blues Challenge, the opportunity to play the Town Park Stage and other prizes. The Telluride Blues challenge accepts recorded submissions from unsigned artists located all-over the world. Local experts from the Telluride Music Company will judge the artist submissions and invite six finalists to compete in the Telluride Blues Challenge. These artists are talented, hungry and will put on a must-see show to kick off the second day of the festival.

Admission to the competition is free and featured as part of Blues For Breakfast! This event is a great way to see up-and-comers in the blues genre while starting your Saturday morning off before music starts in the festival grounds. Watch as competitors perform 20 minute sets that will be judged on the quality of their overall live performance, instrument use, vocals, and presentation.

2023 Blues Challenge Finalists

  • Marcus Trummer (2023 Blues Challenge Winner)

  • Marcia Ewell (aka Marcia Blues)

  • Fatih Kesimal

  • Columbia Jones

  • Kris Lager

  • Jackson Magyar