Brendan Forrest: High Country Bluegrass Dinner @ Van Atta

June 17th | 6–8PM | 44 seats only

A one-night, speakeasy-style bluegrass dinner inside Van Atta—recently named James Beard Best New Restaurant. Expect high-level playing, a packed room, and a tight two-hour window where the music and the table blur together.

It’s Bluegrass week—skip the gondola lines and settle in down in town with Telluride Arts grantee and local Americana favorite Brendan Forrest. Sit in, connect, or just grab a seat—but don’t wait, this one will fill.

Brendan Forrest is a Southwest Colorado-based Folk/Americana/Bluegrass artist whose music draws on bluegrass, folk, Celtic tradition, and Americana without neatly fitting into any one lane. Born into an Irish-American family on Chicago’s North Side, Forrest began on the highland bagpipe before guitar became his central instrument. His work has taken him through Chicago jazz studies, international travel, production, songwriting, and collaborations with acclaimed musicians, including Michael Cleveland, Dominick Leslie, Duncan Wickel, George Jackson, and Jake Stargel. Rooted now in San Miguel County, Forrest writes songs shaped by movement, memory, place, and tradition.