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Karaoke Nights in Parker Colorado
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Do you love to Sing and Dance? Need to just let loose for a night?
Support local business and community.
Wednesday – Tailgate Tavern located on 19552 E Main St, Parker, CO 80138
DJ Cort offers a great variety of music to sing or dance to.
Show starts at 8pm and continues until close. Wednesday is ladies night $1 drinks!
Thursday – Buffalo Boyds located on 12543 N Highway 83, Parker, CO 80134
Avery has been well known in the Parker area for some time! Well now he is back! Come see him for Karaoke at Boyds. 9-close
Saturday – Brunswick Zone located on 9255 Kimmer Dr, Lone Tree, CO 80124
DJ Cort will be playing this show from 8pm – midnight in the fireside lounge.
Come see the drink specials!
Sunday – Buffalo Boyds located on 12543 N Highway 83, Parker, CO 80134
Avery will be playing this show from 9-close.
Thanks to Jacque Parry, Kitchen Designer for Showplace Kitchens in Parker Colorado for this info! If you have any favorite local Kareoke Haunts, either post them in the comments or let me know and I’ll add them to the post.
If you have an idea for a story that would be of interest to your Parker neighbors, just email me… I’m happy to help spread the word.
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Halloween Events Parker Colorado
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Pumpkin Festival Weekends !
Come, Celebrate this Squash with Your Whole Family at Tagawa Gardens
Sat.,and Sun., Oct. 17 & 18 and 24 & 25
11 am – 3 pm
Pumpkin Festival Weekends! All activities are the same each weekend!
11 AM – 1PM, Cooking and Tasting Demonstrations
Herb Gourmet, Deb Whittaker C.H.E.F. (Cheap, Healthy, Easy, Fresh and Delicious). Deb shows us her talents with pumpkins and winter squash. Come pick up some recipes and ask your questions on how to serve these yummy veggies.
11 AM Baked Apple Stuffed Winter Squash
11:45 Ginger Cider Soup in mini-pumpkins
12:30 Pumpkin Seed Pesto
1-3 PM, Children’s Songs with Musician Gregg Green
11 AM-3 PM features the following events each weekend:
The Jackman Brothers Roving balloon entertainment and interactive game shows
Denver Garden Railway with G gauge train display
Face Painting
Inflatable Obstacle Course
Silly cemetery and Crazy Maze
Pumpkin Decorating (decorate a small pumpkin to take home, one pumpkin per admission)
Petting Zoo
Plant a Pumpkin with Grandma Mimi (one per admission)
Coloring and Educational Activity Pages
Fun Foto Cut-outs (put your face in a funny scene!)
The Colorado Pumpkin Patch
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This event in Monument was the closest Pumpkin patch I can find and it’s only 25 minutes South of us on I-25.
2009: We’ll be open from Sept. 25th to Oct. 31st, Fridays and Saturdays 9-5 PM
Open in October on Wednesdays and Thursdays 9-12 AM
* * * Open on Columbus Day October 12th 9-5 * * *
Adults & Children: Fridays-$5 per person, Saturdays-$7 per person
Children under 2 years of age: FREE
School/Group rates available for 15 or more.
For more information, please call: (719) 799-6708 or email coloradopumpkinpatch@comcast.net.
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Taylor is a Treasure Fundraiser
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Join with the Parker Community at a fundraiser to help Taylor Ellison a 4 year old with brain cancer at the Wildlife Experience. There will be a gathering in their gorgeous new space,the Globeology Mezzanine!
Saturday June 27, 2009 6-10 pm
$10 advanced ticket purchase or $15 at the door
This great area is suspended over the Globeology Exhibit, giving guests a birds-eye view of our planet’s most precious environments!
Guests are welcome to walk the exhibit during our fundraiser!
You won’t want to miss this!
Bring all your friends, neighbors & coworkers and join the friends and family of Talyer Ellison for a fashion show, clothing, jewelry, makeup/skincare tables along with many other vendors, a life DJ, chair massages cooking demos, etc. plus a silent auction (see link below) Save the date and come knowing that most of the profits from each vendor will go directly to the family! ALL proceeds from the Silent Auction will go to the family. See their website for more information.
Schedule of Events
6:00 p.m.
Social Time / Cash Bar / Silent Auction Viewing /Product Demos from vendors!
7:00 p.m.
Fashion Show – Gather around and/or take your seats – let the fun begin!
7:30 p.m.
Shop for a cause! Visit each vendor – a portion of the proceeds will go to the Ellisons!
8:30 p.m.
Final auction viewing.
9:00 p.m.
Silent auction wrap up – ALL proceeds from the Silent Auction go to the Ellison family!
9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Event Wrap up
**Please note – free tours of the Globeology Exhibit
will be available from 8:30 p.m. – 10 p.m
Other ways to help:
Donate Here
Taylors Story
Purchase Tickets
Silent Auction
www.taylerisatreasure.org
PARKER COUNTRY FESTIVAL June 12, 13, 14
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Parker County Festival
June 12, 13, 14 Friday, Saturday & Sunday
Those who live and work in Parker know that you haven’t truly experienced the town until you’ve been to the Parker Country Festival, a signature event of the Parker Chamber of Commerce!
Complete with a carnival, homespun crafts, good food and plenty of FREE music, the festival offers three action-packed days of activities for the entire family. The 2009 Parker Country Festival is scheduled for June 12, 13, and 14
This Festival is put together by the Parker Chamber of Commerce and is one of their signature events.
To volunteer or be a fan of the event follow it here on Facebook
in beautiful downtown Parker, on the northeast corner of Parker Road and Mainstreet.
| Carnival Hours Friday, June 12, 5pm-Midnight Saturday, June 13, 9am-Midnight Sunday, June 14, 9am-10pm KYGO Main Stage Hours Friday, June 12, 6pm-11pm Saturday, June 13, Noon-11pm Sunday, June 14, Noon-10pm Marketplace Hours Friday, June 12, 5pm-8pm Saturday, June 13, 9am-8pm Sunday, June 14, 9am-7pm Parker Adventist Cultural Stage Hours Saturday, June 13, Noon-8pm Sunday, June 14, Noon-7:30pm |
Kids Country attraction application Parker Arts Council Youth Showcase Application
Submit all of the above to the Parker Chamber of Commerce
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A combination of beautiful Colorado weather, rides and games, FREE live entertainment and more than 120 fun-filled arts and crafts booths in the Market Place provide the community with a fantastic weekend of fun. As always, there will be plenty of your favorite Festival Food options and beverages in the Food and Beverage Garden. A special area known as Kids Country features special activities for children, such as unique bounce houses and a family entertainment stage.
Saturday morning of the Festival ushers in the traditional hometown parade. Each year, Mainstreet and Victorian Drive is lined with families enjoying a variety of parade entries, including floats, marching bands, horses and vintage cares. Several civic organizations and nonprofit groups host special events as well, such as community pancake breakfasts.
The popular Parker Idol contest will be back, however it only for adults. There is a Youth Talent Showcase for ages 4-18! , performances will be On Saturday and Sunday. Information will be available by April 15 for tryouts and IDOL Competition.
A great way to get involved in your community is to volunteer at the Festival!
For more than 30 years, the Parker Country Festival has been the signature summer event of the Parker Chamber of Commerce, uniting Parker in community pride. With more than 100,000 people attending over the three days, it is an event that simply cannot be missed.
***Important Note: Because of insurance requirements, no open-toed shoes or sandals will be allowed on any carnival rides. No exceptions! Anyone with open-toed shoes or sandals will be turned away from the carnival rides.
*** NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN
Brule’ & AIRO Coming to Monument CO
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The Palmer Lake Historical Society, in partnership with the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce, is sponsoring an historical and cultural event at 7:30 pm on Friday, May 22, 2009, at Palmer Ridge High School, Monument, Colorado. Doors open at 6:30 pm. The event features a stage performance by the award winning Native American musical and dance group Brulé & AIRO. Brulé & AIRO preserves and promotes Native American history and culture by blending traditional and contemporary Native American songs, and by providing interpretive dances by Native American dancers in full regalia. In 2008, PBS television aired the group’s “Concert for Reconciliation of the Cultures,” which was filmed before an audience of 11,000 people at Mt. Rushmore. The group has sold over a million CDs worldwide and has continually sold out the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs for their annual Holiday tour.
The performance is General Admission. Advance tickets are $25.00 each, $30.00 each at the door. All proceeds will benefit the Palmer Lake Historical Society and the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce. Tickets can be purchased at www.trilakeschamber.com or at these local Monument merchants: The Wine Seller and Covered Treasures Bookstore. For event information call 719-481-3282. Don’t miss this one time event!!
