Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, “The Lion the Beast the Beat” album review

Photos and review of Grace Potter & the Nocturnals at the Ogden Theatre in Denver, Colorado

The energy in the Red Rocks parking lot before the Avett Brothers’ first-ever headlining gig at the amphitheater was legit.

A barefoot bard Brett Dennen shimmied his way around the Ogden Theatre stage last week. Photo by Evan Semón. I dare you to go to a Brett Dennen show and not smile. Even if you don’t like his music, it’d be impossible not to have fun just watching him dance around the stage in his own unique, part geek, part hippie way. Nobody has as much fun playing for an audience as Dennen, with the possible exception of Thursday’s opener at the Ogden show, Grace [...]