Lukas Nelson Super Jam With Special Guests Nathaniel Rateliff, The Allman Betts Band, Jamestown Revival and Amythyst Kiah
Lukas Nelson & Promise of The Real’s 2021 Telluride Blues & Brews Festival performances will not be ones to miss! More than just a legendary family name and Neil Young’s touring group of choice the last few years, this is a band in their prime, showcasing stunning musicianship and a sound that plucks from rock, country, soul, folk and R&B.
In addition to their Sunday headlining set, we’re thrilled to announce an extension of the music with a one-of-a-kind Super Jam. Curated and hosted by Lukas, we’re excited to announce that special guests Nathaniel Rateliff, The Allman Betts Band, Jamestown Revival, and Amythyst Kiah will be sitting in and playing together. Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real takes the Main Stage at 7 pm for a full set with hits from their critically acclaimed new album “A Few Stars Apart”, followed by the Super Jam at 8:30 pm.
Lukas Nelson Super Jam Special Guests
Nathaniel Rateliff
Jamestown Revival
The Allman Betts Band
Amythyst Kiah
- 7:00 - 8:10 PM Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real Main Stage
- 8:30 - 9:30 PM Lukas Nelson Super Jam With Special Guests Nathaniel Rateliff, The Allman Betts Bend, Jamestown Revival and Amythyst Kiah Main Stage
Nathaniel Rateliff
When we hosted Colorado’s own Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats in 2015, we knew this white-hot band was no fluke. Rich in soul and stomping, brassy R&B-inflected rockers, Night Sweats music is propelled by Nathaniel’s raw, confessional songwriting and emotional, leave-it-all-on-the-stage singing.
So dynamic is this band and so raucous its performances, that following Rateliff’s first appearance in 2015 on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, none other than Paul McCartney phoned Fallon in amazement, wondering, “Who was that guy?” Fallon has said the band has an invitation for life.
The Allman Betts Band
After illness forced them to cancel their scheduled appearance at last year’s Blues & Brews Festival, we’re beyond pleased the Allman Betts Band was able to say yes to coming to the mountains to play this year. This band is imbued with a musical legacy as deep as its Southern roots. They are a branch of the family tree that represents three of the founding members of The Allman Brothers Band — Devon Allman, son of Gregg Allman, Duane Betts, son of Dickey Betts, and Berry Duane Oakley, son of Berry Oakley. With Johnny Stachela, John Ginty, R. Scott Bryan and John Lum, the Allman Betts Band creates next-generation Southern rock that is brash, exciting and vital. They are more than their golden heritage; they are their own chapter and verse to the story. Their 2019 release, Down To The River, is a celebration of roots, family and the soul of the South. It belongs right alongside Eat A Peach, with its jazz-blues jams and locked-in musicianship. Get right down front for this. It’s musical history in the making.
Jamestown Revival
The friends from Magnolia, Texas are no strangers to Telluride. Zach Chance and Jonathan Clay — Jamestown Revival — have played here numerous times, including for this festival. And why wouldn’t we keep inviting them back? The two, who first met when they were 14 years old, wrote their first song together when they were 15. While their songs are stunningly beautiful in composition and simplicity, it’s their harmonies that send shivers up and down the spine. Reminiscent of Crosby, Stills and Nash, or Simon and Garfunkle, when their voices blend it’s a transcendent experience. On 2019’s San Isabel, the closeness of those shimmering harmonies is on full display, supported by timeless songwriting and their enduring friendship.
Amythyst Kiah
This artist’s music will lift you up and it will also break your heart. Consider the raw despair in her sorrowful song of loneliness, “Tender Organs” from her latest record Wary and Strange. “Notice here, notice here, these tender organs rotting inside me …” To say it is deeply moving is an understatement. Her voice is rich and honeyed, her delivery direct and unwavering. The Chattanooga, Tennessee native is a graduate of East Tennessee State University, where she completed the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program. She combines her early alt-rock influences with a passion for roots music and the result is breathtaking. A guitarist and banjo player, her work with the group Our Native Daughters — conceived by Rhiannon Giddens — provided an outlet for the voices of Black women in America, a record of “struggle, resistance and hope.”Amythyst Kiah is an artist you won’t soon forget. She’s a voice of past, present and future.