Sting Teams Up With Peter Gabriel and the Best Concerts in Denver This Week

On Tuesday, Sting and Peter Gabriel bring their Rock Paper Scissors Tour to the Pepsi Center while Alice in Chains is at the Paramount Theatre, and the Bad Plus deconstructs Igor Stravinsky's Rites of Spring at Chautauqua Auditorium as part of the Colorado Music Festival. Also this week Soul Asylum and...

By Westword Staff

July 11, 2016

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On Tuesday, Sting and Peter Gabriel bring their Rock Paper Scissors Tour to the Pepsi Center while Alice in Chains is at the Paramount Theatre and the Bad Plus deconstructs Igor Stravinsky's Rites of Spring at Chautauqua Auditorium as part of the Colorado Music Festival. Also this week, Soul Asylum and the English Beat co-headline the Ogden Theatre, Twenty One Pilots headlines Red Rocks on Wednesday, and Galactic and BoomBox are at the venue on Thursday. See our full picks below.

MONDAY, JULY 11

Film on the Rocks (with live muisc from Brent Cowles)
$15, 6 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Chuck Inglish
$12-$30, 8 p.m. Cervantes' Other Side

SWMRS
$10-$12, 7 p.m. The Black Sheep

Lee DeWyze
$16-$50, 8 p.m. Soiled Dove Underground

TUESDAY, JULY 12

Sting & Peter Gabriel
$45-$250, 8 p.m., Pepsi Center

Alice in Chains
$49.50-$79.50, 7:30 p.m., Paramount Theatre

Colorado Music Festival: The Rite of Spring Deconstructed (featuring the Bad Plus)
$12-$45 7:30 p.m., Chautauqua Auditorium

Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band
$25-$35, 8 p.m., Boulder Theater

The Temperence Movement
$16-$18, 8 p.m., Marquis Theater

John Pizzarelli Quartet
$45/$55, 7 p.m. Baur's Listening Lounge

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13

Twenty One Pilots
$35-$45, 7 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Soul Asylum and English Beat
$25.75-$50, 9 p.m., Ogden Theatre

Stephen "Ragga" Marley
$26/$31, 8 p.m., Gothic Theatre

Electric Hot Tuna
$27-$47, 7:30 p.m. Arvada Center

The Mekaal Hasan Band
$22, 8 p.m. Oriental Theater

The Bad Plus (also July 14)
$25, 7 & 9 p.m. Dazzle

Shady Grove Picnic Series featuring Harry Tuft
$8/$12 6:30 p.m. Four Mile Historic Park

THURSDAY, JULY 14

Galactic & BoomBox
$37.50-$45, 7:30 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre

eTown Live Radio Show Taping with Sara Watkins and Penny & Sparrow
$25, 6 p.m., eTown Hall

Alexander Jean
$15-$17, 7 p.m. Marquis Theater

John Common & Jess DeNicola
$8-$12, 8 p.m. The Walnut Room

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