The Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

Westword Music Showcase isn't the only concert in town.

June 22, 2018

Last year's Westword Music Showcase. Aaron Thackeray

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The 24th annual Westword Music Showcase is this Saturday and includes national acts like Galantis, the Front Bottoms, Joywave and Sunflower Bean, as well as some of the best local talent at multiple stages around the Golden Triangle neighborhood. Also on tap this weekend are Widespread Panic's annual Red Rocks shows, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, one of the best of its kind in the country, Blues From the Top in Winter Park (with Kenny Wayne Shepherd, North Mississippi Allstars, Vintage Trouble and more) and I Love the ’90s at Fiddler's Green, which includes Vanilla Ice, Salt-N-Pepa, Montell Jordan, Biz Markie and more.

FRIDAY, JUNE 22

Widespread Panic (also June 23 and 24)
Sold out, 7 p.m, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison

Home Free
$19.50-$199.50, 7 p.m. Levitt Pavilion Denver

Telluride Bluegrass Festival (also June 23 and 24)
$85-$240, 12 p.m.,Telluride Town Park

Mary Chapin Carptenter
$49-$64, 6:30 p.m., Denver Botanic Gardens

Mikey Lion
$27.50-$55, 9 p.m., Ogden Theatre

Street Dogs
$17-$19, 8 p.m., Oriental Theater

The New Orleans Suspects
$22-$25, 10 p.m., Cervantes' Other Side

Pink Hawks and Wheelchair Sports Camp
$13-$24, 9 p.m., Ophelia's Electric Soapbox

SATURDAY, JUNE 23

Westword Music Showcase
$55-$85, 12 p.m., Golden Triangle Neighborhood

Westword Music Showcase After-Party
$20-$22, 9 p.m., Larimer Lounge

I Love the ’90s
$25-$89.50, 7:30 p.m., Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village

Blues From the Top
$30-$185, 10 a.m., Hideaway Park, Winter Park

Tech N9ne
$37-$40, 8 p.m., Fillmore Auditorium

Stars
$20.75, 9 p.m., Bluebird Theater

Halo-Halo
$12-$14, 8 p.m., Swallow Hill Music

Trve Brewing's 6th Anniversary Bacchanal
$15, 9 p.m., hi-dive

Jon Snodgrass and His Buddies
$5-$12, 9 p.m., Streets of London Pub

SUNDAY, JUNE 24

Summer Song Festival
$19.50-$55, 7:30 p.m., Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village

The O'Jays
$36/$46, 7:30 p.m., Hudson Gardens, Littleton

Joshua Redman Quartet
$30-$35, 8 p.m., Boulder Theater, Boulder

Dave Barnes
$25-$28, 8 p.m., Soiled Dove Underground

The Raven & the Writing Desk
$8, 9 p.m., Lion's Lair

Looking for more to do? Visit Westword's concert calendar online.

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