Who’s playing Red Rocks in 2019? Get tickets now before it’s too late.

Who’s playing Red Rocks in 2019? Get tickets now before it’s too late.

Red Rocks Amphitheatre, in Morrison, has begun announcing concerts for 2019.

There is no better venue the nation than Colorado’s own Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Owned and operated by the City of Denver, the concert venue in Red Rocks Park was home to some of the most iconic concerts ever.

Show announcements have begun trickling in for the 2019 year and we will add to this list as more are announced.
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  • February 1 – Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks ft. Atmosphere, De La Soul, Living Legends, Watsky
  • April 19 – 311 and Method Man & Redman, The Green, Dizzy Wright, Jesse Royal
  • April 20 – Stick Figure, Pepper, Steel Pulse, The Movement, Iya Terra
  • April 30 – The 1975 with Pale Waves and No Rome
  • May 1 – Interpol with Car Seat Headrest and Sunflower Bean
  • May 2 – Twiddle, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong with Kitchen Dwellers
  • May 3 – Shpongle with very special guests
  • May 4 – Shpongle with very special guests
  • May 9 – Vulfpeck with Khruangbin and Cory Henry
  • May 12 – Luke Combs with Lanco and Jameson Rodgers
  • May 14 – Lord Huron with Lucious
  • May 18 – Global Dub Festival feat. Adventure Club, Bear Grillz, Said the Sky, Riot Ten, Dirt Monky, Kai Wachi, Kompany b2b Tynan, Yaks b2b Somnium Sound
  • May 24 – The Devil Makes Three with Lucero
  • May 29 – Phil Lesh and the Terrapin Family Band with the Infamous Stringdusters
  • June 7 – Michael Franti & Spearhead with Snarky Puppy
  • June 8 – Big Head Todd and the Monsters with Toad the Wet Sprocket & Colin Hay
  • June 15 – Rage on the Rocks 2019: Lettuce with TAUK and The Soul Rebels
  • June 16 – Nahko and Medicine for the People, Trevor Hall, Ayla Nereo
  • June 21 – Umphrey’s McGee with Spafford
  • June 22 – Umphrey’s McGee with TBA
  • June 23 – Umphrey’s McGee feat. a Led Zeppelin set with Jason Bonham
  • July 5 – The Avett Brothers with special guest to be announced
  • July 6 – The Avett Brothers with Nicole Atkins
  • July 7 – The Avett Brothers with Lake Street Drive
  • July 12 – The Motet + Galactic with Moon Hooch
  • July 17 – The Head & the Heart with special guests
  • July 24 – Trampled by Turtles with Deer Tick and The Dead South
  • July 28 – John Prine with the Colorado Symphony, I’m With Her
  • August 1 – Weird Al Yankovic with the Colorado Symphony
  • August 2 – My Morning Jacket with special guests
  • August 3 – My Morning Jacket with special guests
  • August 20 – The Piano Guys
  • August 29 – Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
  • September 8 – Dark Star Orchestra with Electric Hot Tuna
  • September 11 – Old Dominion
  • September 17 – Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit with David Crosby & Friends


From the archive: When a 1968 crowd trashed Red Rocks over a canceled Aretha Franklin concert

From the archive: When a 1968 crowd trashed Red Rocks over a canceled Aretha Franklin concert

Aretha Franklin, the “Queen of Soul,” is known for inspiring awe, motivating listeners to dance, and — on at least one occasion in Colorado — sparking a riot.

On Aug. 4, 1968, Franklin was scheduled to perform a Sunday night concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. But she went on stage to announce that she would not be performing because she hadn’t been paid by the program’s impresario, according to Denver Post archives.

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About 200 people in the audience stormed the stage, destroying chairs, music stands, a grand piano, footlights, electronic equipment and anything else they could get their hands on. Bottles and rocks were thrown onstage. Metal trash barrels were rolled down the grandstand.

As police moved in, people went into the surrounding park, setting fire to trees, bushes and trash. Despite the chaos, there was little fighting and no one was injured. Three people were arrested, and that was because they were suspected of stealing electronic equipment.

The riot resulted in a one-year ban on rock shows at the venue, according to the Denver Public Library.

Per Franklin’s contract, she was to be paid $20,000 before the performance, according to the original Post story. The New Yorker reportedd that Franklin always demanded to be paid in cash on the spot or she would not go onstage. The cash would go into her handbag, which would either stay with her security team or come on stage with her. The reason: She grew up in an era when Ray Charles and B.B. King would get ripped off, according to The New Yorker.

Franklin, the woman behind classics “Think,” “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Respect,” died Thursday morning in Detroit at the age of 76 after battling advanced pancreatic cancer.

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