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 commercial 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” in the audience & on authentic sets at 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 real WWII briefings! Solve the puzzle on the schedule for the code to enter!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!
Main Stage
Hosted by Bob Hope, Gabi Jones of Gabi’s Vintage, Baylee Madison, The Dapper Dahlia and 1940s DJ Greg Kyle!
VIP Doors 5:30 pm
General Admission Doors 6:30 pm
6:45 – 7:15 pm
WWII Plane Arrives with the Stars! See the Andrews Sisters, Bob Hope and our WWII Veterans Tribute! WWII planes flyover! Flash mob with the Big Apple and the California routines!
7:15pm – 10:15pm
Coming from NYC, the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra! Special guest appearance by Happy Days star, Donny Most (Ralph Malph)!
8:30pm – 8:45pm (Set Break)
Best Dressed Contest hosted by Baylee Madison and Gabi Jones of Gabi’s Vintage!
9:40 – 9:55pm (Set Break)
End of war announcement, confetti drop, and group conga line with Bob Hope!
10:15pm – 10:45pm (Band changeover)
Frank Sinatra (Derek Evilsizor) sings:
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Fly Me To The Moon
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Come Fly with Me
- Autumn Leaves
- What A Wonderful World
- New York, New York
10:45pm-12:30am
The Flatirons Jazz Orchestra
Casablanca Stage
Hosted by Bianca Hebert!
Roulette Table 6-11 pm
(Winners announced on email list following the event)
5:30 – 7:15 pm
VIP early access hangar party (until 6:30pm) with VIP dance lesson @5:45 and Jeremy Mohney and his Band from 6:15-7:45.
7:45 – 8:15 pm
Swing Dance Lessons with CM Dance Denver!
8:15 pm – 9:45 pm
The Hot Tomatoes Dance Orchestra! With special guest Frank Sinatra @9:15pm performing:
- I’ve Got You Under My Skin
- Mack The Knife
- That’s Life
- & More!
9:45 – 10:00 pm
Swing dance performances with The Mercury Retros, Boulder Swing Dance’s Flatiron Flyers and
Flatiron Stompers, NOCO Swing Dance’s Horsetooth Hoppers, Blush Swing Dancers, and Rocky Mountain Rhythm tap dancing!
10:00-11:00 pm
Bianca and the Flyboys Quintet!
South Seas Stage
Hosted by The Victory Bee and Theresa Tran!
7 – 7:45pm
Cosplay Competition hosted by Kristin Killtastic, with judges 7th Sparrow Cosplay, HeatherAfter Cosplay, Vorian Cosplay, Cosplay Jenamie and Meet and Greet.
7:45 – 8:15pm
The Andrews Sisters (The Denver Dolls)
8:15 – 9 pm
The King Penny 1940s Radio Show! *Includes audience participation!
9 – 10 pm
The Kalama Polynesian Dancers Tour of the Islands Show! *Includes audience participation!
Briefing Room Tent
6 – 9 pm
TBA briefings with WWII re-enactors and WWII re-enactment groups!
“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