St. Patrick’s Day Float Build Information!
Thanks for all who attended the meeting! We raised $500 to donate toward the Golden Angel Fund at GRRR!
Thank you!
We also passed out quite a few parade wrist bands. The parade should be a lot of fun!!
St Patrick’s Day Float Information:
Once again, we are registered for the Denver St Patrick’s Day Parade!
When: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Step-off will be 9:30am – we’ll start meeting at the float about 7:30am in the Parking Lot of Coors Field. More details will follow.
As always, you must be a member to walk with us in the parade. We will hand out 2 wristbands for a single membership and 4 wristbands for a family membership. You can pick up your wrist bands at the meeting tomorrow evening, or at the float build.
The parade theme this year is “We Are One” or “Mar a Cheile sinn” – at the heart of St. Patrick’s Day is unity and inclusion. We’ll do our best to include that along with a tribute to Jimmy Buffett!! Duffy’s Crane Service will be providing the 53′ trailer again. We will have our friends, the “Groove Time Sitters” playing live on the float and the buildings on the float will be some of Jimmy’s favorite hangouts in Key West. We will have bubble machines on the float. Bubble’s Up! We’ll be passing out bubbles to the kiddos and leis to the adults, in honor of Jimmy. Please help us out by purchasing small containers of bubbles that we can hand out to the kids.
We DO NOT need leis, we have plenty. Judi Fulton made tags for the leis with our Club info on them and put the tags on over 2000 leis!! Now everyone who gets a lei will have our club information and will know who the Colorado Parrotheads are!
Amazon or The Oriental Trading Company are great places to get bubbles in bulk. We will have ‘disguised’ containers on the float to hold the bubbles so you won’t have to carry heavy bags of bubbles, and you can restock as needed. In addition to the previously announced Float Build information, (below) we need your help! The crew from the Channel 2 morning show, “Great Day Colorado” will be at Pete’s on March 5, to film our float build and talk about the Colorado Parrothead Club, our charities, and our float/tribute to Jimmy Buffett!
We hadn’t planned on that, but we will make it work. We’ll be getting the trailer on March 4. All of those who can, we need your help on Tuesday March 5, starting around 9am, at Pete’s, to start building the float so it’s not an empty trailer when the cameras get there. If you are there, you will be on TV. The news crew wants us to have people working on the float as they are filming. The day of the show, they will tell viewers if they want to see the final float, go to the parade! (It will not be a live show, it will be recorded, and shown on their March 15th St. Patrick’s Day Episode.)
Float Build Weekend: We’ll still meet at Pete’s on Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10. We’ll reuse the buildings from last year, and paint/decorate them to look like Jimmy’s favorite hangouts in Key West.
Please join us to help us build the float at Pete’s house:
Saturday, March 9 – 9am
Sunday, March 10 – 9amFloat Build Days: Please bring your own drinks; snacks to share; sunscreen; a chair for break time; and remember to wear old clothes to paint in!
Get your BEST Parrothead attire ready for our parade so we can show the people of Denver a great tribute to our Captain!!
Watch for more info in newsletters as we get closer.
We need sponsors for our float. If you have a business, and would like to donate some money toward our float, we will hang your company banner on the float to advertise your business. We will also add your business info to our newsletter.
Talk to Pete for details!
Looking for something fun to do? The First Annual MargaritaWorld Festival is coming to the Downtown Las Vegas Convention Center!
Saturday, April 20, Join the group for a day full of sunshine, good vibes, and of course margaritas! Join the fun for live music performances from several members of the Coral Reefers, including Nadirah Shakoor, Doyle Grisham, Roger Bartlett, and Tina Gullickson. Also taking the stage will be the Stinson Brotherz in their own tribute to Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, as well as Grey Street, a Dave Matthews Band Experience.
For Tickets and more information:
We are STILL working on a Colorado Parrothead Club License Plate! Robin has submitted the paperwork to the DMV, once it is approved, we will start collecting signatures.
We will need 3000 signatures to get this done. We’ll be hitting all of you up for your signatures for the petition as soon as the paperwork has been submitted.
Party with a Purpose
July 20 & 21
We have an awesome line up so far and are working on a few more!
Thom and Coley
Mike Nash
Kelly McGuire
Mark Mulligan
Rudy B
Michael Elick
and more!!
Watch for a special concert announcement for the end of June!! We are working out the details now.. but you won’t want to miss this one, it’ll be fantastic!!!
Meeting Schedule:
We will not have a March meeting, but we will meet somewhere after the parade for lunch. Stay tuned for details.
Fins up!
Parrot Head President, Pete!