What to know when visiting Breckenridge this Summer and Fall
February 25, 2020
Each year, New Orleans visitors and Mardi Gras lovers take over Breckenridge on Fat Tuesday with a celebration to commemorate the carnival season. This year, we are thrilled to be bringing in the Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band and The New Orleans Suspects to feature a truly authentic New Orleans Mardi Gras Celebration!
Party with the Mardi Gras king and queen at Coppertop Bar inside the Beaver Run Resort before heading down to the Riverwalk Center free concert, featuring the New Orleans Suspects.
Join in on the fun and be a part of the Mardi Gras procession, leaving from the Coppertop Bar at Beaver Run to the Riverwalk Center from 5:30-6:00pm. Led by the Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band and the Mardi Gras king and queen themselves!
Enjoy food provided by The Lost Cajun and New Orleans style drinks like hurricanes and hand grenades.
The Guerrilla Fanfare Brass Band (or simply Guerrilla Fanfare or GuFa) brings raw, rowdy, unadulterated, booty-shakin’ New Orleans style funk to the Northern Colorado area. Our mission is always to get everyone up and grooving to our relentlessly fiery and funky sound. GuFa is composed of some of the finest and rowdiest horn players and percussionists in Northern Colorado, and performs hard-hitting funk, New Orleans Second Line style, fiery originals, and raucous arrangements of modern pop hits.
New Orleans Suspects began playing together in 2009 as a pick-up band at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans. Comprised of some of the most seasoned, highly respected players in NOLA, the group called themselves The Unusual Suspects. Their chemistry was undeniable and by the summer of 2011 they decided to tour full-time, renaming the band New Orleans Suspects. They quickly began attracting large crowds from San Francisco to New York. They have currently released five albums and established themselves as one of New Orleans’ best supergroups.
The Lost Cajun will be providing traditional New Orleans style food for purchase inside the Riverwalk Center for the duration of the event.
If you’re celebrating Mardi Gras or any other festival and event in Breckenridge, make sure you take advantage of these great lodging deals!