Schedule
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New Highlights This Year:
NEW THIS YEAR: Our 2026 Theme: 📡 “Victory Through the Airwaves” with the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra!
Live 1940s radio commerical breaks performed between sets from sponsors such as Ovaltine, Lucky Strike, and Pepsodent!
Participate in a real 1940s radio show, including mock “radio dramas” and “news bulletins.” Voice-act a few lines from old scripts and hear it played!
Follow & watch actors perform famous scenes from 1940s movies like “Casablanca” & “South Pacific” in the audience & on authentic sets throughout the event!
Poster-making craft station: Create your own 1940s and 50s-style posters!
New “Radio Control Booth” photo op!
Also featuring throughout the night…
Visit VICTORY STREET: Spectacular sets/photo ops, historic vehicles/exhibits + International foods!Visit the WWII planes, wander through the WWII base camp and talk to our WWII living history re-enactors!Check out our authentic classic car show complete w/vintage concessions (including the 1949 Blue Ice Cream Truck)!Join us on the Homefront for a peek into craft-making techniques during WWII. Take your own creation home!Play our immersive scavenger hunt and meet 1940s stars, Carmen Miranda, Lucille Ball, Rita Hayworth, & Betty Grable!Climb aboard the Commemorative Air Force’s (Rocky Mountain Wing) TBM Avenger (and see several other planes, including a stunning DC3!)See exhilarating WWII planes fly overhead!Visit our secret briefing tent and make sure to check the schedule for briefings!Find a Cigarette Girl to get some rations!Visit our WWII Veterans’ Outpost historical display and stop by the Veterans table to meet our WWII veterans in attendance.Visit our new WWII Veteran Family Tribute Board! This is a special display for you to post pictures and letters of family members from WWII! Make sure to bring a photocopy (no originals) to hang on the board (1940s civilian tributes are welcome too).Stop by the Colorado 10th Mountain Division’s Historical Display and meet their living history educators!Meet 1940s broadcaster, Edward R. Murrow and try your hand with “on air” vintage radio presenting on real 1940s broadcasting equipment!SHOP The 1940s Ball Vintage Fair!
2025 schedule… 2026 coming soon!
Main Stage
Hosted by Bob Hope, Dandy Wellington and 1940s DJ Greg Kyle!
VIP Doors 5 pm
General Admission Doors 5:45 pm
5:45 – 6:00 pm
WWII Plane Arrives with the Stars! See the Satin Dollz, Bob Hope and our WWII Veterans Tribute and Color Guard!
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Coming from NYC, the World Famous Tommy Dorsey Orchestra performing their “Tribute to Frank Sinatra!” with guest appearance by Happy Days star, Donny Most!
7:00pm – 7:15pm (Set Break)
The Satin Dollz!
7:45 – 8pm (Set Break)
WWII plane flyover. Bob Hope performs!
9:00pm – 9:15pm (Band changeover)
Best Dressed Contest hosted by Dandy Wellington!
9:15pm-12:30am
The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra
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- Dandy Wellington will be performing songs while hosting throughout the night!
- 9:15-9:45pm Frank Sinatra (Derek Evilsizor) performs with the Hot Tomatoes
- 9:45-10:15pm The Satin Dollz perform with the Hot Tomatoes
- 10:15pm-10:35 Elise Roth– Elise is coming from London UK & will be performing with the Hot Tomatoes!
- 10:35-10:50pm End of war announcement, confetti drop, and group conga line with Bob Hope!
- 10:50-11:00 Set Break with Swing dance DJ Greg Kyle.
- 11:00-11:45pm Elise Roth performing with the Hot Tomatoes!
- 11:45-11:55pm Set Break, Swing dance DJ Greg Kyle.
- 11:55-12:30 The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra
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Casablanca Stage
Hosted by Bianca Hebert of Bianca and the Flyboys!
Roulette Table 6-11 pm
(Winners announced on email list following the event)
5 – 6 pm
VIP early access hangar show with Frank Sinatra, performer meet & greet, VIP dance lesson with CM Dance and hors d’oeuvres sampling.
6:00 – 6:30 pm
Swing Dance Lessons with CM Dance Denver!
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Jeremy Mohney and his Orchestra!
7:30 – 7:40 pm
Swing dance performances with The Mercury Retros, and The Flatiron Stompers!
7:40 – 8:10 pm
Swing Dance Lessons with Swing Nights Denver!
8:10 – 8:30 pm
Swing dance performances with CM Dance, Boulder Swing Dance’s Flatiron Flyers, NOCO Swing Dance’s Horsetooth Hoppers, and Blush Dance!
8:30 – 10 pm
Jeremy Mohney and his Orchestra!
10 – 10:30 pm
Bianca and the Flyboys Quintet!
South Seas Stage
Keep an eye out for busking performances on Victory St. with mentalist and professional showman, Professor Phelyx and fire dancer, Zia Pixie starting at 8pm!
5:45 – 6:30pm
Meet & Greet with superheroes of the 1940s (our cosplay contest judges)!
6:30 – 7pm
Queen of the Ball Pin Up Contest Contest!
7pm – 7:15pm
Meet & Greet with the Queen of the Ball Winner from 7-7:05 and TBA.
7:15- 7:45 pm
“Golden Age of Comics” cosplay competition!
7:45pm – 8pm
Meet & Greet with Superheroes of the 1940s (Cosplay Judges and Contest Winners)!
8 – 9 pm
Live Polynesian Band!
9 – 10 pm
The Kalama Polynesian Dancers Tour of the Islands Finale Show with the Band!
*Includes audience participation!
“Don’t be afraid to get your boogie woogie on at this popular appreciation of the patriotism,
energy and upbeat grooves that earned this special time in history the title of the Greatest Generation.”
“Don your classiest dancing duds and join in this celebration of the style,
culture, music and spirit of the Swing Era.”
– Josie Klemaier/Weekly Plus