Most cities of 15,000 people get one summer concert series if they are lucky. Greenwood Village runs four inside its borders, plus a 17,000-seat amphitheatre that hosts Dave Matthews Band on the same weekend a bluegrass trio plays a park two blocks away. If you have lived here a while and only recognize one of those names, this guide is for you.
The reason the calendar is this dense comes down to geography. The Museum of Outdoor Arts owns Marjorie Park and Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre and programs both of them, while the City of Greenwood Village runs its own free series in the residential parks north and east of Orchard Road. The two organizations sit within a mile of each other and rarely cross-promote. Residents who tap only one calendar are missing roughly half of what happens in walking distance of their home this summer.
Here is how the season actually breaks down.
The Thursday Habit Most Residents Do Not Know They Have
The City's Mobile Concert Series rotates through four residential parks on Thursday evenings in June. Every show starts at 6 p.m., every show is free, and the city hands out ice cream at every one. The 2026 lineup is Ninety Percent 90's at Silo Park on June 4, Soundbox at Village Greens Park on June 11, The Delta Sonics at Westlands Park on June 18, and The Wash Park Band at Curtis Park on June 25.
| Date | Band | Park | Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 4 | Ninety Percent 90's | Silo Park | 9300 E Orchard Rd |
| June 11 | Soundbox | Village Greens Park | 9501 E Union Ave |
| June 18 | The Delta Sonics | Westlands Park | 5701 S Quebec St |
| June 25 | The Wash Park Band | Curtis Park | 2323 E Orchard Rd |
The rotation is deliberate. Each week the show anchors to a different quadrant of the city, so no household is more than a short drive from at least one of them. Bring a chair. Nothing about it is ticketed.
Tuesdays Belong to the Crescent
A different free series runs on the west side of the city all summer long. Concerts at the Crescent takes place on Tuesday evenings from June 2 through August 4, 2026, at the Crescent Amphitheater in Greenwood Village. The park opens at 5 p.m., a local food truck is on site each week, and the free concerts run from 6 p.m. to about 8 p.m. The amphitheater sits at DTC Boulevard and Belleview Avenue, tucked between office towers most residents drive past without noticing there is a lawn behind them.
The scheduling is the useful part. Tuesdays at the Crescent and Thursdays in the residential parks do not compete with each other, which means a family that commits to both ends up with nine free concerts in June alone without ever leaving city limits.
What Marjorie Park Actually Is
If you have driven past Fiddler's Green and noticed the sculpture park to the north, that is Marjorie Park. It is not a public park in the ordinary sense. Marjorie Park does not have regular operating hours and is accessible only during events and scheduled tours, and by appointment to members. The Museum of Outdoor Arts runs it, and the collection includes over 40 artworks from MOA's permanent sculpture collection.
MOA's summer programming there runs under the "Marjorie Park LIVE!" banner. The 2026 lineup:
- June 17 — Bluegrass on the Green with Water Tower, a national touring bluegrass band
- August 23 — Echoes of Americana, a full-day showcase of national and regional Americana acts. Tickets to this show also include the Caamp show at Fiddler's Green on Aug. 21 or 22, which is an unusually generous bundle for what is essentially a lawn-party ticket
- September 16 — Blues and Grooves, an evening of blues, funk, and soul
The Caamp bundle is worth pausing on. A Fiddler's Green lawn seat on its own typically runs more than the full Marjorie Park LIVE ticket, so residents who want to see Caamp are better off buying the Marjorie Park pass and going to both shows than buying Fiddler's Green tickets directly.
While you are on the MOA grounds, the current outdoor exhibit is "New Views of the American West: Beyond the Western Horizon," running March 19 through July 31, 2026. If you have not walked the sculpture path in a year or two, the collection has rotated.
Fiddler's Green, From Your Driveway
Residents of Cherry Creek Vista, Greenwood Hills, and The Preserve are close enough to Fiddler's Green that they hear the shows whether or not they buy tickets. You might as well go to the ones worth going to.
The 17,000-capacity venue features grassy slopes, Rocky Mountain views, premium seating, and cashless concessions, and it sits at 6350 Greenwood Plaza Blvd, Greenwood Village, CO 80111. A short walk from the Arapahoe at Village Center light rail station gets you to the gate without dealing with the parking lots, which is the move locals who have done this a few times all eventually make.
The stretch of shows most likely to matter to residents this summer:
- July 22 — Ella Mai
- July 25 — Rainbow Kitten Surprise
- July 30 — Wang Chung, The English Beat, and Modern English on one bill
- July 31 and August 1 — Excision, two nights
- August 2 — The Black Crowes with Whiskey Myers and Southall
- August 7 — Slightly Stoopid and 311
- August 18 — Muse
- August 21 and 22 — Caamp, two nights
- August 28 and 29 — Dave Matthews Band, two nights
- September 2 — Jack Johnson with Lake Street Dive
Two of these deserve resident-specific flags. The Excision run on July 31 and August 1 is the loudest weekend on the calendar. If you host guests those nights, warn them. Dave Matthews Band the last weekend of August is historically the most trafficked pair of shows of the season, so anything you need to do on Belleview or Orchard those Friday and Saturday evenings should happen before 4 p.m. or after 11.
The September Weekend to Hold
If you had to pick one weekend on the calendar that captures what Greenwood Village does well, it is the third weekend of September. Not a Fiddler's Green weekend. This one.
Art on the Green is a free, all-Colorado art fair featuring dozens of artist booths, food trucks, live music, and art activities at the Curtis Center for the Arts and Curtis Park, running September 19 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and September 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Curtis Center sits at 2349 East Orchard Road, which is the same Curtis Park the Mobile Concert Series wraps up at in June. The building does double duty across the year and most residents never step inside it.
Earlier in the summer the city also screens a free Movie in the Park. This year the film is Disney Pixar's "Hoppers." Guests are encouraged to bring blankets or low-back chairs, popcorn will be served, and the movie starts at sundown. It is free with no registration required.
The Walkable Overlap Nobody Talks About
The most interesting thing about the map of all this is how tight it is. Marjorie Park and Fiddler's Green share a footprint at 6331 and 6350 South Fiddler's Green Circle. The Crescent Amphitheater sits about a mile northeast at DTC and Belleview. The Curtis Center is roughly two miles south. Silo Park and Village Greens frame the eastern residential half of the city. A resident living near Orchard and Yosemite can hit a free Thursday concert, a Tuesday Crescent show, a Saturday MOA sculpture walk, and a Fiddler's Green headliner within a five-mile radius of home, and half of it costs nothing.
The Museum of Outdoor Arts was founded in 1981 by John W. Madden Jr., his wife Marjorie P. Madden, and their daughter Cynthia Madden Leitner, and is a forerunner in the placement of site-specific sculpture in Colorado. That history is the reason there is a sculpture park next to an amphitheatre next to an office tower in the first place. The city grew up around a private art collection, which is not something you can say about many suburbs.
If you have lived in Greenwood Village for a decade and only ever gone to Fiddler's Green, you are using about a quarter of what your address gives you access to. The June Thursdays are the easiest place to start. Bring a chair.
When your relationship with a neighborhood shifts from where you live to what your home is worth, it helps to work with someone who knows the streets between Silo Park and the Crescent as well as you do. Debbie Jacobs represents buyers and sellers across Greenwood Village and the south-central Denver corridor. Book an appointment when you are ready to talk.
