If you love the great outdoors, Red Rocks Park offers challenging hiking, horseback and mountain bike trails, and fine events like Yoga on the Rocks. While taking in a concert or movie, you'll be surrounded by 738 acres of stunning vistas, red rock formations, and wildlife at 6,450 feet above sea level. This stunning, open-air entertainment venue hosts incredible concerts and festivals and has presenting the most popular artists in the world, from The Beatles to U2 to Train. “It’s nice to be around a lot of happy people,” said Kelly Sylvain, a 33-year-old home-care worker who bought tickets for all four shows and flew in from Michigan.Īt the end of Lotus’ first set, in which the five members of the instrumental band stood 10 feet apart from each other, guitarist Mike Rempel told the crowd: “It was a long year, but we’re bringing it back.Located 10 miles west of Denver in the town of Morrison, Colorado, where the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains converge lies the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. To organize crowd control, city officials divided the amphitheater into 625-person quadrants, each with its own restroom and concessions stand, and fans were mostly diligent about masking up when they wandered away from their areas. They cheered, screamed and danced face-to-face - most without masks - during Lotus’ two sets. “It’s important to be as patient as we can be.”Īt Red Rocks on April 22, the fans sounded no less enthusiastic than they were before the pandemic. “We’re doing everything we can to prepare for a multitude of scenarios,” he says. Alex Huffman, an aerosol scientist and Denver University chemistry professor, says masks and social distancing are “pieces of the puzzle” that make Red Rocks safer, but he adds, “I’d be happier if we could wait a little longer and push vaccination rates up as high as we possibly can.”ĪEG Hosting Summer Concerts in Wyoming With Fewer Pandemic Restrictionsĭon Strasburg, co-president of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains, has booked several Red Rocks shows for the coming months, he’s personally more cautious than his Live Nation rival. “Red Rocks is going to have a very robust calendar, to say the least.” (According to The Washington Post, 27.5% of the country has been fully vaccinated, while 41.3% has received at least one shot.) “We’re going to roll quickly back to normalcy. But Live Nation’s Pirritt says he’s bullish about the local live industry ramping up, given the pace of vaccinations in the United States. (Lotus’ bassist and sampler Jesse Miller says most of the band’s members are vaccinated but still rehearsed in masks after out-of-town members came in for the shows.)Īs of April 23, 28.4% of Colorado’s population had been fully vaccinated, according to The Washington Post, ranking it 29th in the nation. Promoters say they’ve deliberately focused on booking individual performers (as opposed to large bands) and locally based who can drive to the venue, in part to mitigate the cumbersome safety precautions that artists need to follow when rehearsing and traveling to gigs. Sonic Boom? How Bad Bunny Jump-Started the Concert Business When both sold out in minutes on April 2, promoters added two more dates, and those sold out quickly as well. Live Nation initially scheduled two Lotus dates at $45 and $70 per ticket. “We’ve been discussing what can be allowed for many weeks with other venues.” “All of those things taken into account, we feel comfortable letting this move forward,” says Bob McDonald, director of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment. Red Rocks was no different - although it reopened briefly in September for shows by Denver heroes Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats and a capacity crowd of just 175 - but now that vaccinations against COVID-19 are widely available and an increasing amount of research indicates that outdoor gatherings are relatively low risk when masking and social distancing are employed, local public-health officials signed off on reduced-capacity Red Rocks shows. The last major concert in the Denver area before the pandemic shut down the live industry was Post Malone at the Pepsi Center on March 12, 2020. Red Rocks Amphitheatre Set to Reopen at Limited Capacity for 80th Anniversary
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