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Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour

• Date July 14 - 15 , 2023
• Gates Open 4:30 PM
• Parking Lots Open 1:00 PM

Taylor Swift is bringing Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour to Empower Field on July 14 and 15 with special guests Muna and Gracie Abrams.

www.taylorswift.com

Accessible Seating & Parking

ADA seating is available on all levels in Empower Field at Mile High for Suites, United Club Level, and Reserved Seating. 

On a first-come, first-served basis, guests may purchase ADA parking permits in lots D, G, or L ($40) on event day. Credit card only. For more information, refer to our ADA Guide.

ADA Guide  

Clear Bag/Item Policy

The following items are prohibited (may differ from stadium’s standard list):

SIGNAGE | ADVERTISING | PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS

• No distribution of unauthorized promotional or commercial material
• No flyers, samples, giveaways, or promotional items
• No banners or poles
• No signs larger than 11” x 17”
• No political signage

ELECTRONICS | CAMERAS | RECORDING DEVICES

No professional or commercial cameras/photography equipment, video cameras, Gopros, audio recording devices, or tripods; no video or audio recording will be allowed (except personal cell phones)

• No selfie sticks
• No lights or battery packs

No two-way radios or walkie talkies

No laptop computers, tablets, or digital readers

PERSONAL ITEMS | CLOTHING

Only medical/covid masks or religious face coverings are permitted. no other masks are allowed on premises.

No clothing, costume, or personal effects that may impede the view of those around or behind you.

• No handcuffs or other restraint items
• No animals (except for certified disability service animals)

No chains, chain wallets, studded jewelry or spurs

No bicycles, scooters, skateboards, skates, Segways, or other unauthorized means of transportation

No coolers, thermoses, metal water bottles, or ice chests

No umbrellas

No strollers

No noise-making devices such as air horns, bells, bullhorns, thunder sticks, whistles

No briefcases, bags, purses larger than a clutch bag or non-clear bags (except as noted below)

WEAPONS | DANGEROUS MATERIALS & OBJECTS

• No weapons of any kind (guns, ammo, knives of any size, tasers, pepper spray/mace,  etc.) This also applies to off-duty law enforcement and concealed carry permit  holders.

No flammables or missile-like objects, fireworks, road flares, emergency flares,  explosives, or other incendiary devices

No aerosol containers, including sunscreen, pepper spray, bug spray, or spray paint.

No balloons, frisbees, projectiles, horns, radios bells, whistles, musical  instruments, laser pointers, sticks, poles, bats, clubs, etc.

No items that may be deemed a safety hazard or annoyance to participants or guests

CONSUMABLES

• No food or beverages
• No alcoholic beverages
• No illegal substances
• No glass or metal containers of any kind

Note: Friendship bracelets and portable phone chargers will be allowed. 

Please review our clear bag policy.

Clear Bag Policy

Floor and VIP Entry

Fans with floor tickets must enter through the North Tunnel between gates 4 and 5.

The ONLY exception is for the following VIP packages entering through gate 8 for early entry.

• It's Been A Long Time Coming Package
• Karma Is My Boyfriend Package

All other VIP packages, please enter through the recommended entry on your ticket.

Gates 1, 5 and 9 will be closed.

Merchandise

Early Merchandise Date: Thursday, July 13 Time: 10am-7pm (Fans cannot line up earlier than 7am on Thursday.) Location: Counties Gateway Place in front of Gate 2 Parking: Lots C & D will open at 7am. Show Days Exterior merchandise trailers will open when parking lots open at 1pm.

Parking & Transportation

Parking lots open at 1:00pm. On site stadium parking is sold out. If you do not have a permit or valid ADA placard or license plate for ADA parking, please head directly to our offsite stadium lots listed in the Directions & Parking page.

DROP OFF: Please utilize the lot L for guest drop-off Pick-up: Please be advised that due to the heavy volume of exiting traffic and inbound, it is strongly encouraged to set a designated pick-up location with your party 45-60 minutes after the concert finishes. You can also utilize the rideshare pickup area south of stadium by lot M.

NOTE: Fans without tickets to the concert are strongly discouraged from gathering in the parking lots and outside the stadium this weekend. The stadium and surrounding areas will be at maximum capacity.

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Premium Seating

Please fill out the suite rental request form and a Premium Hospitality representative will follow up with more information.

For any suite catering questions, contact Epicurean at [email protected] or 720-258-3566 .

Suite Inquiry

Ticket Office

The ticket office will open at 9am for both days for will-call and ticket assistance. The ticket office is currently located at gate 1 due to construction.

Ticket office: 720-258-3333

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• Song played from tape Intro ( Fearless, End Game, Speak Now, gold rush, evermore, Red, Lavender Haze, Lover, Bejeweled elements )
• Miss Americana & the Heartbreak Prince ( extended intro; shortened ) Play Video
• Cruel Summer Play Video
• The Man Play Video
• You Need to Calm Down ( shortened ) Play Video
• Lover ( spoken intro ) Play Video
• The Archer ( extended outro ) Play Video
• Fearless ( shortened ) Play Video
• You Belong With Me Play Video
• Love Story Play Video
• 'tis the damn season ( shortened ) Play Video
• willow Play Video
• marjorie ( shortened ) Play Video
• champagne problems ( spoken intro ) Play Video
• tolerate it ( extended intro; with keys; shortened ) Play Video
• ...Ready for It? ( extended intro ) Play Video
• Delicate Play Video
• Don't Blame Me ( shortened ) Play Video
• Look What You Made Me Do Play Video
• Enchanted ( extended intro ) Play Video
• Long Live ( spoken intro ) Play Video
• Song played from tape Red - Intro ( contains elements of "State of Grace", "Holy Ground" and "Red" ) Play Video
• 22 Play Video
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together Play Video
• I Knew You Were Trouble ( shortened ) Play Video
• All Too Well ( 10 Minute Version; with spoken intro ) Play Video
• Song played from tape seven ( spoken word poem – contains elements of Wildest Dreams ) Play Video
• the 1 Play Video
• betty Play Video
• the last great american dynasty Play Video
• august Play Video
• illicit affairs ( shortened ) Play Video
• my tears ricochet Play Video
• cardigan Play Video
• Style ( shortened ) Play Video
• Blank Space Play Video
• Shake It Off Play Video
• Wildest Dreams ( shortened ) Play Video
• Bad Blood ( shortened ) Play Video
• Surprise Songs
• Picture to Burn ( first time live since 2010; on guitar ) Play Video
• Timeless ( live debut, on piano ) Play Video
• Lavender Haze Play Video
• Anti‐Hero Play Video
• Midnight Rain Play Video
• Vigilante Shit Play Video
• Bejeweled Play Video
• Mastermind Play Video
• Karma ( extended outro ) Play Video

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• 'tis the damn season
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• tolerate it
• All Too Well
• I Knew You Were Trouble
• We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
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Your Ultimate Guide to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in Denver: Empower Field Rules, Parking and Pre-Gaming

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Taylor Swift Debuts ‘Speak Now’ Vault Track ‘Timeless’ Live in Denver

Swift surprised her audience with the first-ever live performance of "Timeless" on Friday night (July 14).

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Taylor Swift kept “Timeless” in the vault for 13 years, then brought it to the stage just a week after its release on Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) .

The track about an ageless romance — a never-before-heard gem until the star dropped her re-recorded Speak Now on July 7 — is new to fans, but easily finds a place as one of the most classic love songs in Swift’s canon. She surprised the crowd with the first-ever live performance of the ballad at Denver’s Empower Field at Mile High on Friday night (July 14).

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Before “Timeless,” Swift played her self-titled album’s “Picture to Burn” live, for the first time in more than a decade. (“In the spirit of nostalgia we should be exploring all the eras, including my first album that I wrote when I was like 14,” she announced.)

Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) , which features re-recorded versions of the original album’s tracks plus six songs “From the Vault,” has already had the largest week of 2023 for any album in its first six days of release, according to initial reports to Luminate. The album’s first-week numbers are expected to be announced on Sunday (July 16) along with its debut position on the multimetric  Billboard 200  albums chart (dated July 22).

Watch a fan-filmed clip of Swift’s “Timeless” performance below. Check out the full list of surprise songs she’s brought to The Eras Tour here .

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Music | taylor swift parties: a guide to denver events before the singer’s eras tour concerts, here’s where to find the best swiftie silent discos, makeup booths, friendship bracelets and more.

Fans of the singer-songwriter and her Eras Tour, which plays Denver on Friday, July 14, and Saturday, July 15 , scrambled to snag tickets the moment they went on sale earlier this year, ensuring both instant sell-outs and disappointment.

But anyone can attend these parallel yet separate Swift-themed events, in which boutique hotels, promoters, bars and upscale shopping complexes cater to people coming to (and from) the shows in downtown Denver. Getting a piece of that action means meeting fans where they are. Literally.

Here’s a quick roundup of Swift-related events that are open to the public, both free and paid. Watch for The Denver Post’s photo slideshow and review of the tour’s opening night in Denver, to be posted on July 15 on denverpost.com/things-to-do/music , and check out a review and photos of her 2018 Reputation Tour show at Empower Field at bit.ly/44dZdAz .

Taylor Swift silent disco

The McGregor Square complex across from Coors Field in Lower Downtown is diving in early with a silent disco and related events on Saturday, July 8. Each $30 admission includes a silent-disco headset to hear a pair of DJs spinning Swift hits “from every era to dance and sing along to,” as well as beer or seltzer included and access to a friendship bracelet-making station, “the Eras Tour must-have accessory.”

There are, of course, Swift-inspired cocktails such as Champagne Problems and Lavender Haze, and The OG and Rally bars will also be serving Swiftie cocktails. Tickets are $30 per person, or $10 for people who book a room on the same night at the Rally Hotel on-site. eventbrite.com or therallyhotel.com

Early Taylor Swift pre-parties

Other events are popping up a week early to take advantage of the run-up to the show: the Queer Taylor Swift pre-party at Denver’s Goldspot Brewing Company welcomes Gaylors (Swifties who theorize that she’s secretly gay) and everyone else with a costume contest, friendship bracelets and flash tattoos, from 3 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, July 8. The event is free but donations will be collected to benefit nonprofits Khesed Wellness and The Delores Project. eventbrite.com

On July 13, the night before the first concert, Mile High Spirits is also holding a pre-party featuring “all Taylor Swift, all night long” music ($10; eventbrite.com ).

Swifties at the Station

The 1-7 p.m. celebration on July 14 and 15 at Denver’s Union Station will feature DJ Chris C playing fan-favorite Taylor Swift tunes, a “face rhinestone artist” and a pop-up by LINK x LOU “to help you level up your friendship-bracelet game,” organizers wrote. You can also pose for photos in a booth and enter a Best Dressed raffle for prizes that include a one-night stay at The Crawford with a $100 Denver Union Station gift card.

“Terminal Bar will also be pouring special Taylor Swift cocktails, including the Cruel Summer, a Taylor Spritz, a Blank Space and a Lavender Haze, made with Tito’s Vodka, black tea, lavender, Butterfly Pea Syrup, lemon and soda water,” according to the press release.  Anyone who buys food or drink from Terminal Bar on July 15 can also take a free TukTuk ride directly to Empower Field from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Events are free but RSVPs are encouraged via eventbrite.com . More at denverunionstation.com/events/swifties-at-the-station

“You Belong With Me” at Thompson Denver

The year-old Thompson Denver hotel is also going the lux route on July 14 and 15 with its Champagne Problems brunch, featuring specials by the bottle or glass, the Lavender Haze cocktail throughout the hotel, a “special merch stand for the ultimate friendship bracelets and temporary tattoos” (think 13 and 22, organizers said), and a “Cruel Summer” party in Reynard Social with Eras songs by Cyberkid. Note: Overnight hotel rates for these dates start at about $800. hyatt.com/thompson-hotels/denth-thompson-denver

Taylor Swift Glam Makeup Experience

LoDo’s Maven Hotel and Poka Lola Social Club joined forces at The Dairy Block for a Glam Makeup Experience on July 14 and 15, with Denver artist Makeup by Peaches “helping fans to rock Taylor’s signature red lip or add a pop of glitter and color to your already fabulous outfit,” organizers wrote. Timed slots are available 2-6 p.m. both days for $10 per person. Poka Lola will have the Champagne Problems and Lavender Haze cocktails on both days. Registration is required at eventbrite.com . More at themavenhotel.com

This elaborate tailgate party will be set up across from Empower Field along Federal Boulevard from 3 to 6 p.m. on July 14 with food and drinks, activity booths, DJs, selfie backdrops and more ($25). If you can’t go to the show, they’re also hosting a listening party during it ($25) and a 21-and-up post-concert dance party ($25). The Can’t Stop Won’t Stop bundle includes all of the events ($60). eventbrite.com

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‘It’s been a long time coming’: Taylor Swift brings Eras Tour to Denver

International superstar Taylor Swift is set to visit Empower Field at Mile High in Denver July 14 and 15. This is Swift’s first tour in five years — since the 2018 smash-hit Reputation Stadium Tour, which saw Denver that May. Swift has made stops in Denver for all of her tours: for “Fearless” in 2010, “Speak Now” in 2011, “Red” in 2013, “1989” in 2015 and “Reputation” in 2018.

Swift’s tours didn’t reach Mile High until 2018, previously being played at Ball Arena for one night only. However, she has always drawn a crowd with her rousing performances in Denver, and when the Eras Tour was announced in November 2022, demand was high nationwide. Originally scheduled for only July 15, the July 14 show was added to meet abundant presale requests.

Demand for Swift’s tour was so great it caused an international slew of headlines and heartbreaks. The process on nationwide events ticketing platform Ticketmaster required interested concertgoers to register as a Verified Fan, a process they claimed would help safeguard against scalpers and bots trying to get tickets. If Swifties were selected as a Verified Fan, they received an email with a presale code to permit them to access tickets the next day during the Nov. 15 sale.

What sounded like a straightforward plan quickly turned into a nightmare when reports started flooding social media from the staggered presale across the country of website crashes, hourslong queues and waiting rooms and Ticketmaster even needing to pause the sales to meet demand. When the presale time came for the Denver shows, things were not any easier.

“It was actual hell,” said Max Allsop, a Colorado State University student attending both nights of the Eras Tour’s stint in Denver.

“Everything happened so fast,” Allsop said, recalling Ticketmaster queues of more than 2,000 other people, even with being selected for presale. “I had class at Clark and literally walked out with my computer open in my hands. I finally got in after the class, and when I tried to select tickets, the tickets kept disappearing and reappearing and saying they were sold out when they weren’t.”

Allsop has been a fan of Swift for five years and held tickets to Swift’s Lover Fest, her 2020 planned concert that got canceled due to COVID-19. Ticket holders for Lover Fest were supposed to receive priority to get Eras tickets, but for many, including Allsop, that was not the case.

Capitol One cardholders were given the opportunity to get presale codes for a separate sale Nov. 16, which is how Allsop ended up getting tickets through a friend’s mother for Denver night one. Allsop’s friends managed to get nosebleeds for the April 22 Houston show, and in a second-chance ticket sale for verified fans who weren’t able to get tickets during the initial ticket drop, Allsop managed to get tickets to night two in Denver as well.

“For my experience, it was lots of luck and good timing, but I know that wasn’t the case for everyone, and it breaks my heart that my fellow Swiftie friends weren’t able to get tickets for their shows,” Allsop said.

CSU student Ashley Jones-Sykes also managed to get tickets through the Capitol One presale after the general presale did not yield tickets for her.

“My lovely mother surprised me with tickets for Christmas after I was unable to get them on release day,” Jones-Sykes said. “She waited in the presale Capitol One line for hours while she was at work.”

Some fans were wait-listed for presale codes, including CSU graduate student Natalia Sperry, who had participated in the Verified Fan program for the “Reputation” tour in 2018 but wasn’t even given access to tickets for the Eras Tour.

“Luckily, my partner ended up being able to get tickets for Denver, and my mom surprised me with tickets to Las Vegas,” Sperry said. “If it wasn’t for their help, I wouldn’t have been able to go at all. I want to acknowledge the massive privilege of being able to go at all — let alone twice. I still can’t believe this is happening. It’s a dream come true.”

Sperry had never been to Las Vegas before the Eras Tour. Her mother had registered for presale in Las Vegas as a backup given geographical proximity, and through the luck of the draw, was selected for the Las Vegas presale.

“I had never been to Las Vegas, so it was really special to have the opportunity to explore a new city with my mom,” Sperry said. “Plus tourists and locals were coming from all over dressed up in Taylor Swift-themed costumes, and just about everywhere you went up and down the Vegas Strip, they were playing her entire catalogue. It was kind of a Swiftie’s paradise!”

Allsop had also never been to Houston before attending the Eras Tour with online friends.

“I live in Denver, so that’s a default for me,” Allsop said. “But for Houston, I had never been before. But I wanted to go with my online friends since we rarely see each other. It was worth it, though. Even though they were nosebleeds, it was still such an amazing view, and that technically the first time I had ever seen Taylor Swift live, so that was a religious experience in and of itself.”

Denver and surrounding areas are preparing for the wave of Swiftie mania to hit this weekend — a weekend expected to gross upwards of $200 million for the local economy through sold-out hotels, packed restaurants and expected clogged roadways. Ask any fan, and most wouldn’t bat any eyelash at the thought of doing things non-fans might consider absurd.

Traveling to other states to see her is part of that dedication, but so is lining up at 6 a.m. for show-exclusive merchandise on July 13. Some fans do not have tickets at all and are still planning to go to the shows to either see if dynamic pricing works in their favor and they can afford to get seats — or to simply experience this phenomenon from outside the stadium.

Following the initial ticket sale, prices for seats nearing the thousands even for obstructed view seats, leading to some fans attempting to score tickets through last minute price drops or to listen outside. Fans without tickets should be advised, however, that Empower Field strongly discourages gathering outside without tickets .

“Taylor Swift has a knack for capturing intense emotions and distilling them in her songs,” Sperry said. “I admire her craft as a song writer and storyteller, but I also really appreciate the relationship she’s cultivated with fans. As a longtime fan, you can basically chart your own life and all its changes through each of her musical “eras,” too. For fans who have been with her all along, the Eras Tour is more than a trip down memory lane — it’s a celebration of everything we’ve been through over the past decade.”

Each fan in attendance will undoubtedly have some bonding story over the Ticketmaster debacle, will find a friend based on sharing fun facts over their favorite album or will simply meet an army of likeminded Swifties when they trade friendship bracelets before the show.

“I’ve heard people are making upwards of 300 bracelets, but I’m only making seven,” said Jones-Sykes, who said that while her favorite album is “Folklore,” she is wearing an outfit inspired by “Lover” to night two in Denver.

What started as a nod to the “You’re On Your Own, Kid” lyric “So make the friendship bracelets/ Take the moment and taste it/ You’ve got no reason to be afraid” has merged into an event within the event and exploded on  social media . Swifties have spent months stocking up on simple pony beads, letter beads, charms and cord to make Swift-inspired friendship bracelets to trade with fans at and before the show. Some are walking away from the shows with an entire bag full of bracelets and a stadium full of new friends.

“Taylor has been like a friend to me for years,” said Allsop, who revealed his favorite album from Swift is “1989,” followed by “Reputation.” “She’s even given me my own friends, who I still talk to daily to this day. She’s created a community on TikTok and Instagram where I connect with new Swifties every day. … The Eras Tour is amazing celebration of Taylor’s career, and I think it’s one of her best tours she’s ever done. It brings so many people together, and she’s so talented and so amazing at what she does that you can’t help but want to watch it repeatedly.”

For Sperry, who has been a fan of Swift’s music her entire life and said that her favorite album is the recently re-recorded “Speak Now,” she can track almost every big moment in her life to a musical era of Swift’s.

“Taylor hasn’t been on tour in five years — to put it in perspective, the last time she was in Denver, I had just finished my freshman year at CSU,” Sperry said. “Now, I’m going to Eras just a few weeks before starting my masters at CSU. Going to Eras is really cathartic for that reason: So much has happened since then. It’s a chance to get together and celebrate all we’ve been though and the music we’ve shared along the way.”

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