Concertgoers heading to Riley Green's show at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre next Thursday can skip the impulse to hurl a bra onstage and instead drop it off at a donation booth outside the box office, where every item collected will go to women's shelters across the Denver area. Radio station 98.5 KYGO is running the drive starting at 4 p.m. on September 10, with donors earning an entry into a contest for backstage passes and a chance to meet Green before he performs.
The bra collection grew out of an odd but persistent pattern at Green's concerts, according to 98.5 KYGO: fans have been throwing bras onstage, and Green's road crew started gathering them up to donate to shelters rather than let them pile up backstage. As Backstage Country reported, Green has said in interviews that he had no idea how expensive bras actually were until fans pointed it out to him on social media, which is part of what convinced his crew to start channeling the tossed undergarments toward donation rather than simply discarding them.
The trend has followed Green across his 2026 tour stops. At a Bangor, Maine concert in August, he famously scooped a fan's thrown undergarment off the stage using a drummer's stick like a pair of tongs and told the crowd, “Ma'am, you dropped those,” according to Parade. Green has repeatedly asked fans to stop throwing objects onto the stage for safety reasons, a concern he has voiced in past interviews after watching hair extensions and phones fly toward performers, Country 103.7 reported.
Why the Denver Drive Only Wants New, Unused Bras
The Fiddler's Green setup addresses that safety issue directly by giving fans somewhere to put the bras before the show even starts, rather than mid-set. KYGO's booth outside the box office will include a cardboard cutout of Green so fans can practice their bra-tossing aim without anything ever reaching the actual stage, per the station's report.
Unlike the impromptu stage tosses that started the trend, the Denver drive specifically calls for new, unused bras only. That distinction matters because shelters cannot accept secondhand undergarments for hygiene reasons, a standard need documented in past Denver donation efforts covering local shelters such as community drives that support The Delores Project. Nonprofits like I Support the Girls have similarly flagged new bras and underwear as among the most requested yet least donated items at shelters nationwide, given their cost and personal nature, according to Feminist, which noted the organization has distributed more than 24 million undergarments and hygiene products since it was founded in 2015.
Concert Details and a Big Album Week Ahead
Doors for the show open at 5 p.m., with music starting at 6:30 p.m. Green's Cowboy as It Gets Tour stop in Denver will also feature Kashus Culpepper, Randy Houser, and Hannah McFarland. Every bra collected at the booth earns the donor one contest entry, while multiple donations mean multiple entries toward the backstage-pass drawing, per the same account.
The Denver stop lands just eight days before Green releases his fourth studio album, *That's Just Me*, on September 18 through Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment. The 19-track record, produced by Dann Huff, includes the single “Think As You Drunk,” according to Wikipedia's entry on the album.
Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, the 18,000-capacity venue hosting the show, is the largest outdoor amphitheater in the Denver metro area, with 7,500 fixed seats and a large general admission lawn, according to 9News. The venue was originally commissioned in 1982 by the Museum of Outdoor Arts as a large-scale earth sculpture before opening as a commercial music venue in 1988, a history detailed by the Museum of Outdoor Arts. Fiddler's Green has hosted a packed slate of shows this year, a scheduling crunch Hoodline previously covered in its report on this summer's concert lineup.
