New shows announced, with tickets on sale this week, for the metro area and beyond. Prices do not include service fees.
Australian psych-pop act Tame Impala, and opener Perfume Genius, will return to Denver for their rescheduled — if relatively unheralded, as of this writing — show at Ball Arena on July 30. Tickets are on sale. ($48-$115, ticketmaster.com)
Hip-hop heavy DaBaby, whose Billboard dominance continued throughout 2020, is back with new singles and a headlining concert at Greenwood Village’s massive Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, as part of KS 107.5’s annual Summer Jam. Tickets for the Sept. 4, all-ages show with Jack Harlow, Saweetie, Prof and Clever are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($50-$250, axs.com)
Telluride Blues & Brews Festival’s 2021 lineup includes Colorado favorites who have sold out dates elsewhere in the state. Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, Buddy Guy, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Larkin Poe, North Mississippi Allstars, The Allman Betts Band and many more will play the Sept. 17-19 festival in Telluride Town Park, so if you’ve missed them in Denver, head west, young fan. Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 3. ($250 3-day passes, $95 single-day; tellurideblues.com)
Also in in the high country: This year’s Telluride Jazz Festival will present Aug, 13-15 performances from Galactic featuring Anjelika ‘Jelly’ Joseph, Robert Glasper, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Budos Band, The Hot Sardines, Poncho Sanchez, The Dip and many more. Tickets are on sale. ($190 3-day passes, $65 single-day; telluridejazz.org)
Canadian country sensation Orville Peck, who has never shown his face publicly (on account of his array of incredible fringed masks), will co-headline Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 22 with English singer Yola and support from Charley Crockett and guest-host John Waters — the director of “Hairspray,” “Pink Flamingos” and other queer-cinema classics. Tickets for Orville Peck’s Rodeo at Red Rocks, as the all-ages concert is called, are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($40-$65, axs.com)
Cage the Elephant plans to headline the return of Channel 93.3’s Big Gig at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre on Sept. 12, with support from Rise Against, Grandson, Half Alive and I Don’t Know How But They Found Me. Tickets for the all-ages concert are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($32.50-$85, axs.com)
Also radio-sponsored: Jammin’ 105.5’s Hot Nights concert will this year be headlined by funk legends Zapp, along with Evelyn “Champagne” King, Rose Royce, MC Magic, Baby Bash, Frankie J, Amanda Perez, Tierra and Malo at Fiddler’s Green on Aug. 21. Tickets for the all-ages lineup are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 10. ($37.50-$79.50, axs.com)
Brooklyn hip-hop trio Flatbush Zombies seems like the perfect act to take over Red Rocks on Oct. 30, as part of their Halloween-themed “Freek Show,” with opening sets by Earl Sweatshirt, Young MA, Reason, Teezo Touchdown and Nyck Caution. Tickets for the all-ages extravaganza are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($50-$100, axs.com)
Prolific MC and producer Atmosphere, along with Cali-stoner legends Cypress Hill, hope to fill Red Rocks with fans of all ages on Aug. 28. But, young’uns, bring a gas mask or else risk a contact buzz. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($52-$90, axs.com)
Musician Lindsey Stirling, who got her start as an improbably animated violinist, brings her theatrical (some might say gimmicky) stage show to Red Rocks on July 7. New tickets for the show, rescheduled from July 8, 2020, are on sale, and previously held tickets will be honored. ($65, axs.com)
Folk-pop icons Indigo Girls added a second date at Boulder’s fetching Chautauqua Auditorium, joining a sold-out Aug. 17 concert there. Tickets for the new, Aug. 15 show are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($52-$70, chautauqua.com)
Dusky Texas trio Khruangbin, which often sounds like the soundtrack to a dreamy Bollywood epic or a crowded night festival, will headline Red Rocks on Sept. 21 with no opener yet announced (or, perhaps, on the bill at all). Tickets for the all-ages concert are on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 4. ($54.50-$75, axs.com)
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