This band will headline Coors Field. And The Gorge. Before that? A Boise concert

Being a concert fan in a secondary market like Boise can be a frustrating proposition sometimes.

Bands on the rise play a show here — then disappear for years, performing everywhere, seemingly, but our city.

Yet it pays to be patient.

After ghosting Boise for nearly a decade, folk-rock group The Lumineers finally will return to headline Tuesday, July 12, at ExtraMile Arena. Tickets to the general public go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for $47.75 to $145.50 at Ticketmaster. (Presale opportunities already have launched.) Gregory Alan Isakov and Daniel Rodriguez will open the show.

While they might not jump out as a mainstream, arena-sized act, The Lumineers are popular with a grown-up audience. Their fourth album, “Brightside,” recently hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart. The Lumineers have more No. 1 singles on that chart — six — than any other act since they did it for the first time with “Ho Hey.” (On Boise radio, “adult alternative” is the type of music played on 94.9 FM The River.)

A few days after their Boise concert, The Lumineers will visit the beautiful Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington. Less than a week later, they even headline Coors Field, the Colorado Rockies’ baseball stadium in their hometown of Denver.

When The Lumineers last came to Boise, it was 2013. They’d gotten big quickly, thanks to their high-energy live show and self-titled debut album. It included the singles “Ho Hey”, “Stubborn Love” and “Submarines.”

Yahoo! helped them get even bigger — at least in Idaho.

As part of the Yahoo! on the Road tour, The Lumineers were booked at the Revolution Concert House in Garden City. Ticket vouchers were given away free, which meant that about 2,000 fans showed up. In other cities, the mobile entertainment and technology tour highlighted acts such as fun., Fall Out Boy and Kendrick Lamar.

The Lumineers have enjoyed plenty of international success since that Boise-area promotional concert — but somehow have kept us in the dark until now.

Music isn’t the only reason fans love The Lumineers. The group also has partnered with environmental nonprofit Reverb on this year’s tour. In addition to “reducing the tour’s environmental footprint and engaging fans to take action at the shows,” according to a press release, it “will support projects that directly and measurably eliminate greenhouse gases while benefiting diverse global communities. These efforts will make the tour climate positive; eliminating significantly more greenhouse gas pollution than the tour emits including fan travel to and from shows.”

More information: reverb.org.

The Lumineers' Brightside World Tour starts May 18 in Jacksonville, Florida, before hitting Boise in July.
The Lumineers' Brightside World Tour starts May 18 in Jacksonville, Florida, before hitting Boise in July.