The Colorado Symphony proceeds to enlarge its movie-score and pops programming in stimulating ways. This week, even the symphony demonstrated it’d back Oklahoma City freaks The Flaming Lips since the latter re-creates its seminal record “The Soft Bulletin” at Boettcher Concert Hall on Feb. 22. The possibility of seeing these talents unite (in precisely the exact identical way the Lips endorsed Beck in Denver in 2002) is just as tantalizing because the possibility of hearing the Lips’ 1999 indie-psych masterpiece again live. Tickets for the series, that marks that the Lips’ instant collaboration with the symphony since 2016 (when it also performed “The Soft Bulletin”-RRB-, are on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 21. At 303tickets. com
On the podium for the Colorado Symphony: some noteworthy escalation of its movie-score shows, that have presented titles by the Harry Potter collection, “Home Alone” and much more in recent decades. The most recent movie to have the treatment is “Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back,” inarguably the finest of all Star Wars films and distance sci-fi generally. (OK, “2001: A Space Odyssey” was pretty good, also.) To accommodate the anticipated crush of curiosity, the symphony is doing it at Broomfield’s FirstBank Center March 23-24. Tickets for its all-ages series are on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 21. ($45-$85, 1stbanktickets. com)
Full-band hip-hop mainstay The Roots is returning with a Feb. 23 series at the Fillmore Auditorium, providing its members a break from their regular gig as Jimmy Fallon’s backing band on “The Tonight Show. ” Tickets for the 16-and-up concert are on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 15. ($54.75-$130, fillmoretickets.com)
Latin audio powerhouse Marco Antonio Solís will headline the Pepsi Center on Sept. 21 as part of the Y La Historia Continúa tour. Tickets went on sale. ($59-$499, pepsicenter.co)
Festival and outdoor-stage favorites Greensky Bluegrass are returning to Red Rocks Amphitheatre in a big way next year with three successive dates at the historic venue. The Sept. 13-15 shows will feature Lil Smokies (Sept. 13), Rayland Baxter (Sept. 14) and Billy Strings (Sept. 15) as support, with tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 21. ($45-$80 daily; $100 three-day passes, axs.com.co)
Brilliant but oft-troubled T-Pain is coming back into Denver to get a series at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood on April 1. Tickets for the 16-and-up concert are on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 21. ($27.50, axs.com.co)
Just declared for Estes Park’s increasingly concert-laden Stanley Hotel: Lettuce is set to headline all-ages shows there Feb. 22-23, and discounted rates for rooms are available using the code “funk. ” Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 21 ($69-$75, axs.com.co)
Conventional group Celtic Woman has been attracting its own Ancient Land tour to Colorado, such as a May 26 concert at Red Rocks which ’s so refreshing it’s not on the band’s website however (as of the writing). Tickets went on sale earlier this past week. ($29.75-$99.75, redrocks.co)
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