The String Cheese Incident will inject the sweaty energy of the summer concert season into Broomfield’s 1stBank Center when it reboots its Winter Carnival there March 10-12. The Boulder jam band has played only occasionally the past few years, so expect fans to descend en masse for the shows, which include openers Ott, a U.K. electro artist (March 10), bluegrass mainstays J.D. Crowe & the New South (March 11) and New Orleans new-school funk group Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk (March 12). Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday and include a free download of that night’s show from . ($55, TicketHorse)
Janet Jackson wisely planned her upcoming tour around her new greatest hits collection, “Number Ones,” instead of trying to reel in fans with a raft of new, mostly forgettable material. That means her April 6 show at the Wells Fargo Theatre, dubbed the “Number Ones, Up Close and Personal Tour,” will be heavy with ’80s radio staples such as “Control,” “The Pleasure Principle,” “Miss You Much” and, of course, the inimitable “Rhythm Nation.” Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($64.50- $149.50, Ticketmaster)
Kenny Chesney’s party-ready pop-country will invade Red Rocks Amphitheatre this summer as part of his nearly 60-date “Goin’ Coastal” tour. On-sale dates and prices for the July 6 show at Red Rocks have not yet been announced. Check back here or at for updates.
Jethro Tull, for all its creative and commercial achievements, will always be remembered for its 1971 album “Aqualung,” a classic that distilled the U.K. band’s folk and hard-rock proclivities into a decidedly theistic (if anti-religious) message. Appropriately, the band is commemorating the disc’s 40th anniversary with a summer tour where the album will be performed in its entirety (along with assorted hits). Tickets for the June 8 show at Red Rocks, with openers Kansas, are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($49.50- $84.50, Ticketmaster)
Mötley Crüe joins rock and pop-country stars Kid Rock, Jason Aldean Band, Charlie Daniels Band, Darius Rucker, Zac Brown Band and Toby Keith in playing the 115th Cheyenne Frontier Days July 23-31 in Wyoming. Single tickets and packages are on sale at 9 a.m. Jan. 28. Visit for updates and the full schedule of events. ($38-$58, TicketsWest)
Of Montreal has lost — and gained — more than a few fans on its wild stylistic turns over the years. Lately the band has been practicing a sort of glam-indebted soul-funk that owes less to leader Kevin Barnes’ obsession with the Beach Boys than Prince and various types of studio trickery. The band returns to the Ogden Theatre on May 8 to promote its cutesy, so-so sex manifesto “False Priest.” Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. ($18, Ticketmaster)
