New Denver music venue opens, promises to be one-of-a-kind
Though Levitt Pavilion Denver became the seventh in a series of Levitt Pavilions across the country when it opened in Ruby Hill Park on Thursday, it is the largest of them all, not to mention one of a kind in Denver.
With an adjustable capacity that can accommodate as many as 17,000 people, the $7 million, 63,450-square-foot amphitheater is the largest outdoor dedicated music venue in Denver proper, with a maximum capacity more than double that of Red Rocks. (Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater, which seats 18,000, is in Englewood.)
Aesthetic flourishes set it apart from the competition in less quantifiable ways. “Sky Song,” an interactive art installation, was dedicated on Thursday, 30 minutes prior to the venue’s first concert. Dreamed up by Denver artists Nick Geurts and Ryan Elmendorf — who collaborated on a 16-foot-tall metal sculpture of a head and hands emerging from the desert at Burning Man last year — the shiny steel 8-foot structure invites passersby to press any combination of its 33 buttons, which will activate lights on a nearby building facade during a concert and activate bells when all’s quiet.
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