X Ambassadors @ Ogden Theatre

X Ambassadors put on a great show at Ogden Theatre in Denver, CO on May 14, 2024. With Rowan Drake and New West kicking off the show, it was the best time all around.

Rowan Drake

Rowan Drake, inspired at a young age to experience life. An injury ending his competitive snowboarding career, inspired him to start writing songs. Rowan grew up playing guitar and performing in venues around where he grew up in Ithaca, New York.

Following his first release in the fall of 2020, he pulled the attention of labels and artists alike. Rowan Drake makes music that allows us all to feel every emotion in its deepest form. He has a unique sound that ties together the roots of where he grew up with sounds the world can all understand.

Rowan Drake is an 18-year-old artist, writer, and producer currently residing in Los Angeles figuring out how to take what lives in his head and share it with the masses.

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New West

New West is a Canadian musical group from Toronto, Ontario. They are most noted as the winners of the Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2024.

The group, who consider themselves a musical collective rather than a band in the traditional sense, consists of multi-instrumentalists Kala Wita, Vella, Ben Key and Noel West. Their music blends rhythm and blues and indie rock influences. They released a number of singles, including “Cold Tea” and “Those Eyes”, before releasing their full-length debut album Based on a True Story in fall 2023.

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X Ambassadors

X Ambassadors are a multi-platinum trio formed by brothers Sam Nelson Harris (vocals, guitar, saxophone, bass) and Casey Harris (piano, keys) while the pair were in high school in Ithaca, New York. Later joined by Adam Levin (drums) upon moving to Brooklyn, the trio have gone on to dominate the alternative charts over the last decade.

Forming in 2009, the band exploded with the success of their debut album, VHS (2015). The Platinum certified album provides an intimate look into the childhood of Sam and Casey, and features massive hit singles “Unsteady” and “Renegades,” which have over 1.3 billion streams on Spotify combined and led the band to a three-year world tour. VHS was followed by ORION (2019), the Belong EP (2020), The Beautiful Liar (2021) and (Eg) (2023), a series of collaborative singles featuring artists such as BRELAND, Teddy Swims & Jac Ross, Medium Build, and PAMÉ.

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