John Denver (8/12/1982)

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Artist(s): John Denver
Date: 12 August 1982
Tickets: $10.00/$12.50/$15.00 (reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 7,000 (likely sold out by showtime)
Notes: Denver’s fourth appearance (fifth performance) at Wings Stadium. Likely a sellout, center stage in the round. Band members: Jerry Carrigan (drums), James Burton (guitar), Glenn D. Hardin (piano), Jim Horn (sax/flute), Herb Pedersen (guitar/banjo), Jerry Scheff (bass), Danny Wheetman (mandolin), Denny Brooks (guitar), Renee Armand (vocals).
Setlist*: Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning), It Amazes Me, Today, For Baby (For Bobbie), Nothing but a Breeze, Relatively Speaking, Shanghai Breezes, Children of the Universe, Dreams, Take Me Home, Country Roads, Grandma’s Feather Bed, Paradise, Fly Away, Some Days Are Diamonds, Garden Song, Ballad of the St. Anne’s Reel, Thank God I’m a Country Boy, Rhymes and Reasons, The Eagle and the Hawk, Hard Times Come Again No More, Dearest Esmeralda, Seasons of the Heart, The Wings That Fly Us Home, The Ambulance Down in the Valley, I Want to Live, The Peace Poem, Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Rocky Mountain High, Poems, Prayers and Promises, Heart to Heart, Annie’s Song, Calypso, Perhaps Love.

*based on reviewer’s comments and other shows around the same time (e.g., Tucson, AZ)

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