Get your tickets now for the 2025 annual Mardi Gras Dance and Fundraiser for the Colorado Friends of Cajun and Zydeco Dance and Music (CFCZ) and community radio station KGNU!
In the main ballroom at the Avalon featuring Zydeco greats: Step Rideau and the Zydeco Outlawsyde, Da,
Doors open at 6:30, Zydeco dance lesson at 7:00 and live music 8-11
in addition to the music, there will be a Costume Contest with prizes, Cajun food for sale, complimentary King Cake and Mardi Gras beads, Cash Bar, and Voodoo Alley featuring Tarot card and Astrology readings and more!
Laissez Les Bons Temp Rouler!
Early Bird tickets are on sale through KGNU.org or CFCZ.org
$40 through 2/21/25–$50 day of show–$20 for students with ID
Wednesday Waltz Etc. Halloween Dance with live music by
Rodney Sauer and Sandra Wong
It’s Halloween! Wear your favorite costume and enjoy an evening of Halloween music and fun! Rodney and Sandra’s piano-violin duet will delight you as they play special Halloween waltzes, swings, foxtrots and more. Everyone is welcome! No experience or partner necessary. Our evening lessons include beginning and intermediate waltz. Lessons start at 6:30, dancing from 7:30-9:30.
Bring your friends and make new ones as we dance the night away.
Saturdays, October 5,12,19, 26 3:30-4:30 pm $40 for the series
Swing Rueda is a circle dance where couples exchange partners in sync with each other following moves from a caller. Swing Rueda uses classic Lindy Hop moves as well as fun, playful moves adapted from Salsa Rueda. Our four-week progressive Swing Rueda class covers all the basic Swing Rueda moves so you can join in our Swing Rueda at Wednesday Waltz Etc. and Saturday Swing nights. No partner necessary BUT you must know the basic Lindy Hop swingout or take the Lindy Hop Boot Camp course immediately before the Swing Rueda class.
Lindy Hop Boot Camp for Swing Rueda
Saturdays, October 5,12,19, 26 2:30- 3:15 pm $20 for the series
Want to learn Swing Rueda, but don’t know the Lindy Hop basics? Then take the Lindy Hop crash course. We’ll get you dancing quickly so you can join our Swing Rueda Class immediately following the Lindy Hop Boot Camp Course. Each class will add one or two new moves that we will then use in the Swing Rueda Class so you will get an opportunity to practice what you learn right away. No experience necessary, no partner necessary
The Lindy Hop is the classic Savoy Ballroom swing dance of the 1930s and 40s. Its high-energy moves allow for individual expression as couples dance to the beat of big band music.
