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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
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