13 of the Best Outdoor Music Venues Around Denver and Beyond
We’ve rounded up Colorado’s best and brightest open-air stages, amphitheaters, and concert spots for celebrating the summer with live tunes.
Everything Denver, Everywhere You Are
We’ve rounded up Colorado’s best and brightest open-air stages, amphitheaters, and concert spots for celebrating the summer with live tunes.
From Olivia Dean to Bruno Mars, here are 17 can’t-miss acts that are making stops in and around the Mile High City this year.
Anne-Marie Keane just released her first studio album, Layers of a Woman—most of which she wrote aboard a 60-foot sailboat.
Music education nonprofit Jazz Aspen Snowmass’ next act—a permanent venue—opens this month with shows, a recording studio, and more.
From a performance from the Celtic Women to a live scoring of Charlie Brown’s Christmas, here is the holiday music in the Mile High City we’re most looking forward to.
Ten years ago, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats rode their debut album from the Bluebird Theater all the way to Jimmy Fallon’s stage in New York City.
Ahead of the indie-pop duo’s final Denver show, we spoke with Alaina Moore about what it’s like to make beautiful music with your husband—and why they’re stopping.
Whether your Spotify rotation leans heavily toward Pantera or Raffi, Denver has a music festival for you this summer.
The Underground Music Showcase has been elevating local bands since 2000. Nonprofit co-owner Youth On Record has a plan to make sure the show goes on for another quarter-century.
From the weather to crowd size to ticket pricing, we break down Telluride’s signature musical events—Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Telluride Jazz Festival, and Telluride Blues & Brews Festival—to help you choose which one to put on your summer concert calendar.
Camp out and rock out to everything from country twang to Americana rock beats at these Colorado music festivals with on-site overnight options.
For more than three decades, Jazz Aspen Snowmass founder Jim Horowitz has been bringing the world’s biggest acts to the heart of the Rockies.
On its 20-acre riverside property north of Lyons, Planet Bluegrass hosts aspiring pickers and songwriters at its pre-festival RockyGrass Academy in July and Song School every August.
From the grandaddy of them all, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, to smaller shindigs spread across the state (plus one just over the border in New Mexico), these pickin’ parties are music lovers’ dreams with bonus tracks like river paddling, leaf peeping, and craft brews.
In Colorado, there’s a word—and plenty of written and unwritten rules—for what it means to be a reverent and righteous music festival attendee.
Every summer, the hills come alive with the sound of bluegrass—and country and jazz and rock and blues. Here’s how to heed their siren songs and where to head bang, sway, and mosh in city limits.
