The Harlem of the West still has a working stage, and it has been booked solid since 2003. Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom at 2637 Welton Street occupies the old Casino Cabaret in Denver's Five Points neighbourhood, a room whose history reaches back to the mid-1920s and whose golden age paralleled the Cotton Club: through the 1930s, 40s and 50s, when segregation made Five Points the thriving heart of Denver's African American community, the Casino was a West Coast jazz epicentre where Duke Ellin.....

The second stage at Cervantes' is a headline room in its own right. Cervantes' Other Side at 2637 Welton Street is the companion hall to Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver's Five Points neighbourhood, the two rooms sharing the historic Casino Cabaret building whose jazz-age stage hosted Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman in the decades when Welton Street was the Harlem of the West, and later James Brown, B.B. King, Ray Charles and Ike and Tina Turner as the Casino's legend grew.....

Roseanne Barr walked down these basement stairs an unknown Denver housewife and came back up a comedian. Comedy Works Downtown at 1226 15th Street operates where it began in September 1981, in the basement of the Granite Building just off the corner of 15th and Larimer in Larimer Square, Denver's oldest block. Founders George McKelvey - the godfather of Denver comedy - Doug Olson and Edd Nichols renamed their Comedy Shoppe when they moved it into the space, creating the first Denver nightclub de.....

One row of purple seats in the upper deck marks the exact point where baseball leaves sea level a mile behind. Coors Field at 2001 Blake Street, two blocks from Union Station in Denver's Lower Downtown, opened on 26 April 1995 with a game that told the building's whole story: the Rockies beat the Mets 11-9 on Dante Bichette's fourteenth-inning home run. The 300-million-dollar ballpark by HOK Sport was designed for 43,000 seats until the Rockies drew a record 4.5 million fans at Mile High Stadium.....

In the historic City Park east of downtown Denver, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science is one of the largest natural-history museums in the western United States and the principal natural-history institution of the broader Rocky Mountain region. The museum traces its origins to 1900, when the pioneer Colorado naturalist Edwin Carter's celebrated taxidermy collection (assembled from years of personal field work throughout the Rocky Mountain wilderness) was acquired by the City of Denver and put.....

Led Zeppelin played their first American concert inside these walls in 1968; today the same 1908 shell holds one of only three opera houses in the United States with seatback translation titles at every seat. The Ellie Caulkins Opera House at 1385 Curtis Street occupies the historic Quigg Newton Denver Municipal Auditorium, built for 400,000 dollars to host the 1908 Democratic National Convention and, at 12,500 seats, briefly the second-largest venue in the country. The auditorium lived many li.....

Titanic survivor Molly Brown bought the first car built in this building. The Fillmore Auditorium at 1510 North Clarkson Street, on Colfax Avenue in Denver's Capitol Hill, opened in 1907 as the Mammoth Roller Skating Rink - a 32,000-dollar pleasure palace styled like an English seaside pavilion - and spent its first century cycling through lives as improbable as any venue in America. After the skating fad cooled, the Fritchle Electric Automobile Company built nearly 500 electric cars here betwe.....

With only 210 seats it has grossed more than 27 million dollars - Denver's little theatre that could. The Garner Galleria Theatre, tucked under the parking structure across from the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, opened in April 1992 with Forever Plaid and has been the city's home of cabaret ever since. Old-timers knew it first as StageWest, then simply the Galleria Theatre; in 1996 it took its lasting name in honour of Bob Garner, the pioneering presenter who.....

The building has poured drinks since the early 1890s and never changed hands until 2015 - the music hall attached to it was a Croatian and Slovenian fraternal lodge built in 1903. Globe Hall, at 4483 Logan Street in Denver's Globeville neighbourhood, is a Texas-style barbecue joint, dive bar and 200-capacity music venue occupying what locals believe is the longest-surviving saloon in the district. The history is working-class Denver distilled: the bar served workers from the Globe Smelting and .....

The dance floor is 5,000 square feet of hardwood, the building holds close to 2,000 people, and Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson and Toby Keith have all played it. The Grizzly Rose, at 5450 North Valley Highway alongside Interstate 25 just north of downtown Denver, has been Colorado's definitive country nightclub and dance hall since 1989. The 40,000-square-foot honky-tonk earned national validation early: the Country Music Association crowned it Club of the Year in 1995, and the roll call of acts w.....