DeVotchKa and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra brought a sold out Red Rocks crowd through an emotional journey on Friday night.

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Kicking off his world tour in Denver, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli mixed Verdi with Sinatra in a night of music as diverse as his audience.

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Denver’s Ruby Hill Park will get a new amphitheater that could host as many as 50 free concerts and other events each year.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela and Colorado Symphony have announced they are teaming up for a show together at Red Rocks this summer.

After a successful, experimental show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre last year that led to a live album, DeVotchKa and Colorado Symphony Orchestra, return as a pair to the mountain amphitheater this year.

Friday night in Boettcher Concert Hall, heavy metal hero C. F. Kip Winger and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra demonstrated that opposites can mix.

Friday’s concert at the Ogden Theatre brought back the Flobots (who performed at the first Denver Acoustic Christmas in December of 2011), newcomer Zach Heckendorf and Big Head Todd and The Monsters; who unbeknownst to fans performed with a very ill Todd Park Mohr. Mohr, who according to band members had been feeling sick all day, was rushed out of the venue immediately following their set to receive medical attention.

DeVotchKa and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra may have seemed like an unlikely musical match just a year ago, but their indie-meets-institution collaboration produced two solid concerts in 2012, one at Boettcher Concert Hall last February and another at Red Rocks in September. Next up: The album “DeVotchKa Live with the Colorado Symphony” due Tuesday.