Greensky Bluegrass Returns to Red Rocks for Annual Concert

The first time Greensky Bluegrass played Red Rocks, in 2013, mandolinist Paul Hoffman was a ball of nerves.

“For the rest of the night after our performance, I remember still being really riddled with anxiety about it. We’d played for 10,000 people and more than that, but it’s just something about Red Rocks,” he recalls. “It’s just so in-your-face. It’s so vertical and so steep. I’ve never played anywhere else where I feel like I can see all the people, from row one to the top; it’s like people are from my foot to my head just right in front of me.

“It makes it really powerful and really magical,” he continues. “That’s probably part of what’s so cool about it, aside from just that rock setting — that steepness and the way that it still feels kind of intimate, even though it’s 10,000…