Chayce Beckham plays his first Colorado Springs show at the Whiskey Rose

The American Idol winner brings his Old Fashioned EP to the north Academy honky-tonk on Saturday, Nov 7, the night after Denver's Grizzly Rose.

On Saturday, Nov 7, the dance floor at the Whiskey Rose gets an artist who usually plays rooms several times its size. Chayce Beckham headlines The Whiskey Rose on North Academy Boulevard, with the show at 8pm, and as far as our records go it's his first Colorado Springs show.

Beckham's typical headline room holds around a thousand people, so a Saturday at a Springs honky-tonk is a closer look than most of his fans get. He's working through Colorado this week: Grand Junction on Nov 5, then the Grizzly Rose in Denver on Nov 6, then the Springs. After that the tour jumps to Austin for two nights on Nov 20 and 21, then Indianapolis and the Seacoast in December.

If you know him, it's probably from "23." Beckham won the nineteenth season of *American Idol* singing that original song, and it's stayed his signature. His debut album, *Bad for Me*, followed in 2024. This year has been about new music: "Dirt Floor" arrived in July as his first release of 2026, followed by "Take Me Home" in August, and both landed on Old Fashioned, a five-song EP that came out Sept 25, as ABC News Radio reported via Rural Radio. He co-wrote all five songs; the others are the title track, "Ain't Lying to Myself" and "Today Feels Like Tonight." Beckham has also said he's working on a full-length follow-up to *Bad for Me*, so these could be some of the last nights to hear the EP songs before a new album reshuffles the set.

The room has its own short story. The Whiskey Rose is the Colorado Springs sibling of Denver's Grizzly Rose, opened in March 2025 in the old Whiskey Baron space at 5781 N. Academy Blvd., as KOAA and KRDO reported when it was announced. Like its Denver parent, it was pitched as a full honky-tonk: live music, dance lessons and a mechanical bull. That makes back-to-back nights at the two Roses a neat bit of booking: Beckham plays the original on Friday and the newer one on Saturday.

Tickets are through TicketWeb, and the venue's Live Nation page carries the listing.

A singer who usually plays rooms several times this size, in a bar built for two-stepping.

Wear boots you can dance in. If you're going to try the bull, do it before he goes on.

Sources: Live Nation: Whiskey Rose events (livenation.com); TicketWeb: Chayce Beckham at Whiskey Rose (ticketweb.com); Rural Radio / ABC News Radio: Chayce Beckham's new music is 'Old Fashioned' (ruralradio.com); Rural Radio / ABC News Radio: Chayce Beckham's new music starts with a 'Dirt Floor' (ruralradio.com); Dubois County Free Press: Chayce Beckham headlining Buffalo Trace Festival (duboiscountyfreepress.com); KOAA: Grizzly Rose expanding its honky-tonk in Colorado Springs with the opening of the Whiskey Rose (koaa.com); KRDO: The Grizzly Rose is opening a new venue in Colorado Springs (krdo.com); Springs Magazine: The Whiskey Rose brings Denver's Grizzly Rose to Colorado Springs (springsmag.com); JamBase: Chayce Beckham at The Whiskey Rose (jambase.com)