Cheyenne Frontier Days announces 2024 concert lineup

Mar. 7—CHEYENNE — Cheyenne Frontier Days announced Thursday the concerts and performers coming to the 128th anniversary "Daddy of 'em All" this summer. The 2024 lineup features repeat performers like Jason Aldean and Thomas Rhett as well as the likes of Machine Gun Kelly and Ludacris and artists making their Cheyenne debuts, like Lainey Wilson.

Concert tickets will be available March 14 online only to accommodate purchase volume. The following day, they will be available for phone sales or in-person at the ticket office.

Prices for concert tickets will range from $72 to $107, rooftop starts at $200, and Tunes on the Terrace ranges from $225 to $275. Daily rodeo tickets range from $24 to $51; rooftop starts at $100. PBR tickets range from $25 to $105.

"I'm just excited to get moving," said Scott Lewis, contract acts chairman for CFD. "This is when we really start getting motivated and the volunteers get motivated, and we start really focusing on specific plans that we're going to do around the park."

Lewis has been volunteering with the contract acts committee for 26 years and this is his third serving as chair. He keeps a pulse on hot acts CFD wants to bring to the Cowboy State and then works with a private talent buying agency, Romeo Entertainment Group, which has been booking CFD shows since the 1980s.

The committee chooses acts they'd like to see but they don't get everyone, whether that be because they aren't available or the parties can't reach a mutual price point.

"What happens a lot of times is we end up just kind of patching it together at the end," Lewis said.

When booking artists, the team also has to recognize competing markets, like the large market to the south in Colorado.

"We don't necessarily want to bring a lot of people in here that have also been performing down in the Front Range and in Denver," Lewis said.

But that isn't always the case; it depends on the act as well. Last year they booked Zach Bryan, who had performed at Red Rocks Amphitheater that same year. He still sold out in Cheyenne within a couple of hours, Lewis said.

They've already got leads for next year. He said they try to speculate on who is growing and how big they may be by next year.

"We try to catch them on the way up if we can just because we are kind of a middle-sized venue," Lewis said. "We're just, we're a little bit unique."

He's also conscious of the importance of bringing a diverse set of artists to CFD to widen the audience going to concerts. This year, the outliers from the country genre are Machine Gun Kelly on July 24, followed by T-Pain and Ludacris the next day.

"We'll definitely attract a different crowd to come check out our western celebration and have some fun," he said.

But he also brings back classic acts that have historically been popular in Cheyenne like Aldean, who will perform at the event for his sixth time — still shy of Charlie Daniels' record 11 CFD performances.

"He does really well in Cheyenne. Whatever it is, people in this region just love him," Lewis said, "So, for us, we have no qualms about bringing him back."

Last year, there were 327 volunteers who served on the contract acts committee. They start around 8 or 9 a.m. and finish up around 1 or 2 the next morning.

"And then we show back up and we do that nine nights in a row," Lewis said.

Noah Zahn is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle's local government/business reporter. He can be reached at 307-633-3128 or nzahn@wyomingnews.com. Follow him on X @NoahZahnn.