Festivals near Denver

At the foot of the Rockies, Denver wears its "Mile High City" nickname with pride and nurtures a festival scene that smells as much of sweaty clubs as of crisp mountain air. Along South Broadway and through the arty RiNo district, the Underground Music Showcase turns the sidewalks into a discovery trail every summer, where dozens of indie and up-and-coming bands hand off from one bar to the next. More intimate, the Bluebird Music Festival brings rock and singer-songwriter folk back to human-scale rooms, while up in the Colorado high country near Estes Park the banjos of the Goldengrass Bluegrass Festival ring out — a bluegrass sound rooted deep in the Rockies' DNA.

Denver doesn't live on guitars alone: the city has a fierce love of dance, and the Global Dance Festival unleashes its electro bass under the vast Front Range sky, in the lineage of the great open-air gatherings fed by the region's legendary amphitheatre lore. Stadium crowds aren't left out either, with the hotly anticipated return of My Chemical Romance. To find your way through this packed season, FestT calculates your FestiScore — the affinity between a lineup and your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date, from the neighborhood stage to the big show.