Market · Denver metro · within 25 miles
The Denver market books about 1,483 shows a year across 335 venues, with 642 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 27%, ahead of Electronic / DJ at 21%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 50% of the year. August is the peak month. Red Rocks Amphitheatre is the most-booked venue, with 188 shows on record. The market covers Denver and 28 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Boulder, Golden and Lafayette.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in Denver from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
14 dates on the calendar · very large draw
3 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
2 dates on the calendar · very large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Denver on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Denver that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 335 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Denver, Colorado, from bar stages to arenas, with about 1,483 shows in the last twelve months and 642 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 525 shows fall on a Saturday, against 91 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 50% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 27% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Electronic / DJ at 21%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, with 188 shows on record and 45 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Denver data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Denver and every other market in the country.