Pretty Lights, Band of Horses and the Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

This weekend’s lineup includes Pretty Lights at Red Rocks for a two-night stand, Band of Horses at the Ogden Theatre, Riff Raff at the Bluebird Theater, and the Queen City Festival, the Crestone Music Festival and the SolShine Festival. See the full list of our picks below. 

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12

Pretty Lights (also August 13)
$49.75/$60, 7 p.m., Red Rocks

Levitt Pavilion Teaser Concert Series with Flobots
Free, 6 p.m., Civic Center Park

SolShine Music Festival (also August 13)
Free, 7 p.m., Hideaway Park

Queen City Festival (also August 13)
$35, 7 p.m., City Hall

Crestone Music Festival (also August 13 and 14)
$10-$90, 12 p.m., Challenger Golf Course

Broods
$22.50-$40, 9 p.m., Ogden Theatre

David Grisman Sextet
$25-$40, 7:30 p.m., Chautauqua Auditorium

Manic Focus
$25/$30, 11:59 p.m., Gothic Theatre

Tonight We Rise and the Midnight Club
$10-$13, 8 p.m., Bluebird Theater

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13

Guitar Town (also August 14)
Free, 12 p.m., Copper Mountain Resort

Band of Horses
$39.50, 9 p.m., Ogden Theatre

Blues & Brews
$7.50/$10, 12 p.m., Old South Pearl Street

Caspa and Rusko
$35/$40, 9 p.m., Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom

Break Science
$25/$30, 11:59 p.m., Gothic Theatre

Riff Raff
$23.50-$35.50, 9 p.m., Bluebird Theater

Tribal Seeds
$20-$25, 7 p.m., The Black Sheep

Eldren
$10-$12, 8 p.m., Marquis Theater

The Appleseed Collective
$8-$10, 8:30 p.m., The Walnut Room

Rocky Mountain Low: D.R.I.  (also August 14)
$20, 9 p.m., Larimer Lounge

SUNDAY, AUGUST 14

Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda
$59.50 and up, 7 p.m., Pepsi Center

The Old Crow Medicine Show and Brandi Carlile
$49.95-$86.50, 7:30 p.m., Red Rocks Amphitheatre

WAR and Los Lonely Boys
$26-$36, 7 p.m., Hudson Gardens

The Fabulous Thunderbirds
$27-$44, 7:30 p.m., Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities

Julien Baker
$15-$18, 8 p.m., Bluebird Theater

Jill Sobule
$20, 7:30 p.m. Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret

James Supercave
$12/$15, 9 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge