BEST BETS >> Things to do around Denver this weekend
Frozen Dead Guys for everyone!
Through Sunday: Colorado’s favorite cryogenically themed hoedown, Frozen Dead Guy Days, returns to Estes Park this week (assuming it isn’t snowed out) with a zombie crawl, Royal Blue Ball (today) and other activities, such as live music and “frosty games” — most of which take place Saturday.
“Festival goers can expect the weird and wonderful happenings from years past, including coffin races and a polar plunge, as well as plenty of new and elevated Estes twists, like a frostbite fashion show, a Bands and Bloodys Sunday Brunch and more,” organizers wrote. Tickets: $49for the festival, and $99 for the Royal Blue Ball.
Saturday and Sunday events are at Estes Park Events Complex, 1125 Rooftop Way in Estes Park. frozendeadguydays.com or stanleyhotel.com/royalblueball.html.
St. Patrick’s Day family fun
Through Sunday: Besides the green beer, Irish cuisine specials, and vigorous singing and dancing, this year’s St. Patrick’s Day brings back the massive Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which as of this writing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday, despite the intense storm this week. Free and familyfriendly, it steps off at 19th and Wynkoop streets, with the best viewing for families at Blake Street from 23rd to 27th streets. See denverstpatricksdayparade.com for more.
We’re also liking the jib of Old Towne Arvada’s St. Patrick’s Day Festival (noon-6 p.m. Saturday, with kids activities and entertainment) and Boulder Social’s Puppy Parade, with $10 donations per parading dog going to Boulder’s Farfel’s Farm and Rescue; it also gets you a house-brewed Social Beer (besocialcolorado.com/ bouldersocial).
Five Points has its first St. Paddy’s Day Pet Parade and Costume Competition, led by a brass band along Welton Street starting at 11 a.m. Saturday. It joins the historic neighborhood’s traditional pub crawl, spoken word poetry, and live DJ performances — attendees of which are encouraged to wear their most sparkling green gear. For more St. Patrick’s Day fun, visit denverpost.com/things-to-do.
An indie-songwriter dilemma
Tuesday: Madi Diaz’s indiefolk carries a mid-tempo hush that often sprawls into soaring choruses, as heard on “Don’t Do Me Good,” her sparkling duet with Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves. Diaz brings her show to the Bluebird Theater (3317 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver) on Tuesday. Tickets for the 16-and-up concert with openers Daniel Nunnelee and Patrick Dethlefs are $22 at axs.com.
Also Tuesday (whatever you choose, you’re in luck) at Globe Hall, we also must include copacetic indie songwriter Rosali, whose new album “Bite Down” (March 22 on Merge Records) is by turns sprightly, heart-rending and impossibly smooth. Recommended for fans of Aimee Mann, Fleetwood
Mac and Weyes Blood. Tickets for the 16-and-up show are $17. With Color Green and sterling Denver instrumental act Prairiewolf. 4483 Logan St. in Globeville. axs.com
Colorado Dragon Boat Film Fest
Through Sunday: Unique in the region, the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival in 2016grew out of the sonamed competitive event at Sloan’s Lake Park, with a compact slate of films exploring Asian-american and Native Hawaiian/pacific Islander heritage. It returns through Sunday with screenings, Q&AS with filmmakers, two “creative conversations” with community members, and the first Golden Dragon Award (for actress Ji-young Yoo). Tickets are $12 per screening, $40 for opening and closing nights, $15 for Culinary Conversations, and free for community conversations (with a $5suggested donation). See the full lineup and events schedule, including the free Saturday Asian Marketplace at 11 a.m. at the Sie Filmcenter, 2510 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver, at denverfilm.org/cdbff.