COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo — Colorado's new outdoor amphitheater held soft opening Tuesday before officially opening this weekend. The 8,000-seat Ford Amphitheater is located in north Colorado Springs at the Polaris Pointe development near the Air Force Academy. The amphitheater will host its first concert by Colorado Springs' OneRepublic on Friday.
OneRepublic will also be performing Saturday and Sunday at the new venue. Previously known as Sunset Amphitheater , Ford acquired the naming rights to the amphitheater in June. The concert venue will be booked in partnership with concert promoter AEG Presents .
Upcoming concerts on the schedule include The Beach Boys, Walker Hayes, Iration and Pepper, Lauren Daigle, Primus, John Fogerty, Dierks Bentley, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Jim Gaffigan, Pentatonix, Cage the Elephant, Barenaked Ladies, Steve Miller Band, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd, For King + Country, Foreigner, Ivan Cornejo, and Godsmack. Notes Live said Ford Amphitheater is part of a $90 million entertainment campus that will host large touring acts with a top-of-the-line audio-visual system, a self-draining grass berm, and more than 90 luxury fire pit suites. Notes Live said the venue has "an unparalleled view of the sun setting over Pikes Peak, America’s mountain, right behind the stage as each concert begins, flanked by the United States Air Force Academy stadium on the left and the iconic Air Force chapel on the right.
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