Nearly five years after Pretty Lights played his last show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Colorado-bred electronic musician is making a highly anticipated return to the stage.
In an announcement Tuesday, the artist behind the music, Derek Vincent Smith, said “I feel recharged and more ready than ever to launch a new vision of PL music and live events… Itap a new dawn and I can’t wait to see you all again shining bright.”
This new chapter starts concerts in nine cities across the U.S. on Pretty Lights’ Soundship Spacesystem Tour, including three nights at Denver’s Mission Ballroom (Aug. 4-6) and three nights at the Dillon Amphitheater in Dillon (Aug. 10-12).
Other cities on the tour include Atlanta, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, The Caverns in Tennessee, San Francisco and New Orleans. Smith will also perform at Hulaween music festival in Florida and Cascade Equinox Festival in Oregon. Tickets for the Soundship Spacesystem Tour go on presale April 5 before going on sale to the public April 7 at .
Pretty Lights announced his return from an extended hiatus with a video and tune riffing on The Highwaymen’s namesake track, paying homage to Johnny Cash’s verse with spacey iconography and reverb-laced melody: “I’ll find a place to rest my spirit if I can. Perhaps I may become a Pretty Light again. Or I may simply be a single drop of rain, but I will remain. And I’ll be back again.”
The last time Pretty Lights released music was in 2017. The following year, Smith, who grew up in Fort Collins, performed two nights at Red Rocks before taking an unannounced break from stage and studio. He later deleted most of his posts from social media causing fans to speculate about whether or not he’d make a comeback.
In a rare interview in 2016, Smith told The Denver Post he was intimidated by fame, especially by the reaction he received in Denver.
