See a Concert at Red Rocks in 2025
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a national historic landmark beloved by music enthusiasts from all over the country. Its incredible acoustics offer an unforgettable musical experience for visitors of all kinds.
Whatever your interest, whether that be attending a concert or taking yoga classes, Colorado attractions are great destinations to discover more about. So read on!
Music
Red Rocks provides an unforgettable aural backdrop, and this has resulted in concert experiences that far surpass their individual parts. Red Rocks provides a uniquely intimate setting where music plays as much of a role as its performers do in creating artful performances.
Tom Petty, Yo-Yo Ma or Bon Iver’s performances are more than concerts: they mark an event to be remembered forever. Likewise, The Grateful Dead’s groundbreaking 1978 run at Carnegie Hall is often considered to have marked the birth of modern-day jam bands.
Amphitheatre’s natural acoustics help amplify sounds from visiting musicians, though its high elevation may distort certain instruments’ clarity. Therefore, you’ll want to arrive early so you can explore and find spots that best suit your sound needs.
Concerts
Red Rocks Park and Gardens provides a wonderful setting for people to come together and experience music. Starting early each spring until fall, concert attendees can listen to everything from country music to the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks.
Red Rocks’ iconic status lies in its world-famous acoustics. A geological event forty to 70 million years ago caused Ship Rock and Creation Rock, two 300-foot monoliths that now enclose an amphitheatre, to rise 300 feet high – creating the cave-like environment known for its incomparable soundscape that has earned Red Rocks the label of one of the World’s Natural Wonders and enabled many musicians to build careers through performances on stage here.
Red Rocks fans who attend shows at this venue dream of the day they can stand in a full capacity crowd and sing along to their favorite tunes as lights flash overhead, rocks shake below them and sound reverberates throughout the amphitheatre. Musicians dream of one day performing there themselves – those lucky enough to play there can proudly say that they have reached one of music’s pinnacles!
Yoga On The Rocks
Red Rocks may be best known for its world-famous concerts, but it also hosts world-class yoga. Every Saturday morning from June to August, its sandstone monoliths turn into a tranquil yoga studio and welcome 2,000 participants clad in workout gear to participate in stretching and breathing sessions at Red Rocks’ 70 rows.
Red Rocks General Manager Jeff Kitts describes Red Rocks Asylum as an unforgettable experience that requires very little labor to run an event: only ticketing staff and summer staff need be provided in addition to venue security personnel for security.
Yogis should bring their own mat, filled water bottle and towel for post-vinyasa snacks. While parking spaces in the main lot quickly fill up, Lower South Lot 2 provides nearby parking solutions. Lyft service can also be utilized if driving isn’t an option for them.
Films On The Rocks
Denver Film and Red Rocks Arts & Venues team up each summer for Film on the Rocks series to present classic movies and pop culture favorites at this iconic amphitheater in Colorado. This Colorado tradition marries movie-going with outdoor scenery to provide an enjoyable evening under the stars.
Experienced through direct interaction is the only true way to appreciate the magic and natural beauty of this landmark sandstone amphitheater, designated a National Historic Landmark by its designation and beloved destination among music enthusiasts from around the globe.
Millions of years of geologic forces, the visionary architects Burnham Hoyt and Stanley Morse, the Civilian Conservation Corps’ labor force and thousands of volunteers combined forces to craft this park and amphitheater. Here people come together to share stories, make memories and leave behind an everlasting legacy; from legendary performers like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Grateful Dead to today’s artists such as Brandi Carlile, The Avett Brothers Widespread Panic or Denver native Nathaniel Rateliff and Night Sweats the magic is felt by all who experience it!
History
Red Rocks’ iconic sandstone monoliths have been transformed over time into an open-air theatre unlike any other in the world, thanks to an ambitious plan from Denver architect Burnham Hoyt that employed “minimal architecture” techniques in order to preserve both its breathtaking natural scenery and unparalleled acoustics – an incredible achievement that make this venue one of a kind.
Due to the amphitheater’s brilliant engineering, even a whisper at the base of one of the rocks can be heard clearly at its summit. On non-concert days, this park is filled with locals exercising and tourists taking in its sights.
Red Rocks concerts have often followed the trajectory of popular music: from opera and classical performances in the early 1900s through 1940s to rock and psychedelic music in the 60s and 70s – including soft rock concerts following a notorious Jethro Tull show that caused fans to rush the stage and destroy a piano – to soft rock today.
In 1978, The Grateful Dead’s two-night run at Madison Square Garden is widely credited with ushering in a modern jam band movement at that venue. Bonnie Raitt also made her debut in 1978 and has gone on to perform multiple multi-night runs at that same venue.