For its second year gracing Estes Park with unmatched weirdness like coffin races, bloody brunches, zombies dragging through town, polar plunges and a Cryogenic Cannibal Chase, Frozen Dead Guy Days released its schedule of events and music lineup for the three-day festival kicking off March 27.
Brent Warren with “Frozen Grandpa” directs the parade during the 2018 Frozen Dead Guy Days. (Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer)
The weekend, which runs March 27-29 will take place at various locations around Estes Park (including a bar crawl), but the big events will be held at the Estes Park Events Complex, 1125 Rooftop Way, Estes Park, all outlined at frozendeadguydays.com. Night one will feature the iconic Royal Blue Ball at the legendary Stanley Hotel, 333 E. Wonderview Ave.. The elevated evening brings out fancy attire and ice king and queen costumes, live music and immersive entertainment. There will also be a bar crawl around town that night. On March 28, the Cryogenic Cannibal Chase 8K will race through Estes and the FDGD’s signature Coffin Races will have themed teams racing to the finish line in dead-inspired attire and life-sized coffins over their heads. On Sunday, March 29, the icy Polar Plunge will take place at The Stanley Hotel. There will also be inventive Bloody Marys and brunch served up at locations around Estes Park, according to the website.
There will be live music all weekend, including from the headliner, rock ’n’ roll “Tasmanian Devil” Andy Frasco & the U.N. Denver bands include classic rockers the Rick Lewis Project and polka-rock surfers the Polkanauts, while Boulder County’s Gasoline Lollipops will bring its barn-burners. Baltimore quartet Pigeons Playing Ping Pong will release the psych-funk and Estes Park local band Buster & the Boomers (formerly The Really Most Sincerely Dead) rounds out the weekend of live music. Check out the Frozen Dead Guy Days playlist at frozendeadguydays.com.
Frozen Dead Guy Days began in Nederland more than two decades ago but relocated to Estes Park after the relationship between the event and Nederland deteriorated in 2022.The quirky festival celebrates the bizarre life and legacy of Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man who was cryogenically frozen after he died in 1989. He resided in a backyard Tuff Shed in the hills of Nederland from 1993 to stay with his daughter, Aud Morstoel, and his grandson, Trygve Bauge. In 2023, with Aud and Trygve back in Norway, Grandpa Bredo was relocated to The Stanley Hotel’s old ice house in Estes Park, where he was submerged head-first in liquid nitrogen, the festival website states.
Tickets are on sale now at frozendeadguydays.com, with general admission costing $64.36 for adults and $36.12 for kids. Use the promo code FROST30 through Jan. 30 for 30% off.
