Gus Dapperton trades Red Rocks for the Bluebird in April

With his fourth album 4 Dear Life out this fall, Gus Dapperton plays the 550-capacity Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, April 13, 2027.

Gus Dapperton's last Denver show was October 9, 2024, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. His next one is about as different as a Denver room gets. In April he plays the Bluebird Theater, which our listings put at 550 capacity.

Gus Dapperton plays the Bluebird Theater on Tuesday, April 13, 2027. Doors are at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. The date was announced Oct. 26, and tickets are through AXS.

The reason for the trip is a new record. The Line of Best Fit reported that Dapperton announced his fourth studio album, 4 Dear Life, for an Oct. 23 release on ALTER Music, and shared the lead single "Queen" with a music video he directed himself. Coverage of the announcement in September called it his first album in three years. Clash and Melodic Magazine covered the announcement too.

Three years is a long gap between albums for Dapperton. His catalog runs back to his debut, Where Polly People Go To Read, which BroadwayWorld reported he announced in January 2019, and includes Orca, which Dork covered when he announced it. 4 Dear Life is the next chapter, and the April run is the first chance for a lot of cities to hear it live.

The size of the room is the local story. A Red Rocks date and a Bluebird date are not the same kind of night, whatever his place on the bill was in 2024. Red Rocks is a big outdoor amphitheater show. A 550-capacity theater is a room where you can see the person on stage, and for an artist who directs his own videos the visual side of a show matters.

Our data files him under indie, which is a wide tent. On a Tuesday in April at the Bluebird, the new album will set the tone, and the room will tell you how it lands.

Spring is a long way off, but a 550-capacity room fills faster than an amphitheater does. Fans who were at Red Rocks two years ago should treat this as the up-close version of that night, and anyone who found him through 4 Dear Life should treat it as a first look. Either way, it's worth getting a ticket early.

April 13 is a school night and a work night. It's also likely to be one of the smaller rooms on this tour, and for this album, that may be the best way to hear it.

Sources: Gus Dapperton announces new album 4 Dear Life and shares Queen — The Line of Best Fit (thelineofbestfit.com); Gus Dapperton Announces New Album '4 Dear Life' — Clash (clashmusic.com); Gus Dapperton 4 Dear Life — Melodic Magazine (melodicmag.com); Gus Dapperton Announces Debut Album Where Polly People Go To Read — BroadwayWorld (china.broadwayworld.com); Gus Dapperton has announced his new album Orca — Dork (readdork.com); Gus Dapperton at Bluebird Theater — JamBase (jambase.com)