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Until this year’s coronavirus pandemic, Blues Traveler has maintained a tradition of playing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Independence Day since 1992—interrupted only in 1999, when frontman John [...]

Tenor saxophone player Lee Allen grew up in Denver and attended school in the Whittier neighborhood. He located in New Orleans circa 1943 and, as the late Dr. John described it, “put that sound” [...]

On June 29, 1969, on the first and only Denver Pop Festival’s final day at Mile High Stadium, the Jimi Hendrix Experience played its last concert.

In 1967, Lothar & the Hand People were scheduled to play Red Rocks Amphitheater. The show was rained out, but the Denver band got to meet the headlining band, the Lovin’ Spoonful, who encouraged [...]

In 1978, Bruce Springsteen made his first visit to the Rocky Mountain region, performing at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

On June 17, 1978, comedian Steve Martin recorded the second side of his comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy during his Red Rocks concert.

On June 15, 1996, 311’s sold-out Red Rocks Show was captured for the Enlarged to Show Detail video.

On June 10, 1971, a sold-out Jethro Tull show at Red Rocks Amphitheater was marred when a mob of fans who couldn’t get tickets decided to climb the hills behind the venue to get in for free; [...]

On June 5, 1983, U2 staged a star-making performance at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater. A half-capacity crowd risked foul weather to witness the show, which the Irish rockers released as a [...]

On June 4, 1977, REO Speedwagon’s “Ridin’ the Storm Out” peaked on the Billboard singles chart. The band wrote the song after being stuck in a nasty storm around a show at Tulagi, the [...]