At the citys opera house, Rock The Vote hosts Ballot Bash, the big party of the conventions first night. Performances were expected from Fall Out Boy, Jakob Dylan and Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugos rap-rock band NERD. Mr. Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, will be DJing at the afterparty.
TUESDAY
Grammy organizers set up a concert with rockers Everclear, Daughtry and the Denver band Flobots, who also performed at a Saturday night DNC party at the Elitch Gardens amusement park.
Also downtown, the nonprofit Do Something hosts a party at a hotel-lounge with a set by Moby. Among planned attendees: Arianna Huffington, John Kerry and (random star alert!) Chevy Chase.
a long-running Boulder, Colo.-based radio variety show, will host performances from James Taylor, Ani DiFranco and David Crosby and Graham Nash.
Singer Idina Menzel, best known as Elphaba from performs at another Rock The Vote party in Denvers LoDo district, with Ashanti in attendance.
WEDNESDAY
By far the busiest day for performances and celebrities features Jennifer Lopez stopping by the Denver Art Museum to honor Marian Wright Edelman, Ben Affleck promoting s Second Harvest at the Food Bank of the Rockies, and Rage Against the Machine raging against the machine at the Denver Coliseum.
The Creative Coalition, a nonprofit group meant that engages the artist community in issues, sponsors a Black Eyed Peas concert at the Fillmore Auditorium, one of three performances Peas frontman will.i.am will be doing in Denver.
Wests concert sponsored by ONE and the Recording Industry Association of America is at around the same time, and will attract at least as much attention, if only for the hip-hop stars unpredictability when it comes to politics.
Also on tap: A Ralph Nader rally with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer set to speak. A separate indie rock lineup in support of Obama features the Silversun Pickups, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Nada Surf and the Cold War Kids.
THURSDAY
The most prominent Obama celebrity backers from Oprah to Kerry Washington will be at Invesco Field for the candidates big speech. Sideline events are minimal, though theres an afterparty sponsored by Google and Vanity Fair.

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