Denver is guaranteed a certain amount of big concerts each year, given the city’s geographic importance in regional tour-routing.
In other words: If you’re playing this part of the country, performing in the metro area is essential to recouping your travel costs.
But Colorado’s reputation as an all-around stellar market — from multi-night runs along the Front Range to coveted “boutique plays” in mountain towns — has only inflated the size and prestige of Denver’s thousands of annual concerts.
There’s much more to come, given those massive venues such as Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village (capacity: 18,000) haven’t yet revealed a single show for this year. Here are just a few of the metro area’s biggest live music events — meaning crowds of 5,000 people or more — that have been announced for 2020 Concert Tours as of press time, in chronological order.
Icelantic’s Winter On The Rocks:
Icelantic’s annual Outdoor + Snow Show-adjacent concert, Jan. 31 at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, will feature live music from Zhu, They, SNBRN and DJ Matt Cassidy. (https://bit.ly/2Fv3pSH)
Miranda Lambert at the Pepsi Center:
Part of Lambert’s Wildcard Tour 2020, this Feb. 1 show with Cody Johnson and LANCO is a chance for pop-country fans to gather under a more generalist banner (i.e. neither willfully escapist nor overtly political) and celebrate Lambert’s Nov. 1 Sony release, “Wildcard.”
Post Malone at the Pepsi Center:
Yes, he was just here (on Nov. 10) and no, he isn’t going away anytime soon. Heat-seeking Malone, a.k.a. 24-year-old rapper Austin Richard Post could probably make it a hat trick — with a third Pepsi Center show in a 12-month period — and it would still pack the joint. This March 12 date also includes Swae Lee and Tyla Yaweh.
Celine Dion at the Pepsi Center:
Grammy-winner Dion’s March 24 concert at the Pepsi Center follows years of the Canadian powerhouse honing her stagecraft in Las Vegas. And its rarity ensures the faithful will turn out for the Dion’s first Colorado appearance in awhile (notably, she opened the Pepsi Center with its first-ever live event on Oct. 1, 1999).
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