Don’t be a chicken! Get ready for the most extraordinary, wacky, and one-of-a-kind experience. It’s the 2024 Colfax Chicken Fest on Saturday, September 21, 2024, from noon to 4 p.m. in the 40 West Arts District. The FREE event lets you groove to live music, participate in chicken-inspired contests and art activities, indulge in food truck treats and much more.
The Festival schedule:
12 p.m. — Festival Kickoff
12:30 p.m. — Elle Michelle’s Grateful Holler
1:15 p.m. — Spoon Egg Contest
1:45 p.m. — Twang Mountain
2:30 p.m. Chicken Cluck n’ Strut Contest
3 p.m. — Brandy Wine & Mighty Fines
In addition, the Festival offers opportunities to hang at all of the galleries and creative spaces, paying tribute to the HUB Building.
There will be a drumstick exhibit, chicken crafts, chicken sculpture contest and kids coloring activities.
The Denver Drumstick opened in 1967. The restaurant was best known for its model train that ran near the ceiling, coined the “biggest little railroad in all the land”, and for their boxcar of chicken and shrimp boats. The restaurant closed its doors in the 70’s.
Then the Drumstick became a bingo hall before eventually sitting vacant for many years.
In 2022, the Drumstick entered its current incarnation as The HUB- home to artist-owned galleries, creative businesses, and 40 West Arts.
Though the building has been transformed, reminders of the Denver Drumstick can still be seen in etchings on the doors to the 40 West Arts gallery.
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