KGNU & CFCZ’s Annual Mardi Gras Benefit Bash featuring Step Rideau & The Zydeco Outlaws

For Immediate Release

February 5, 2025

Boulder, CO

What: KGNU-CFCZ’s Mardi Gras Dance Benefit Featuring StepRideau & The Zydeco Outlaws

When:  Saturday,February 22, 2025   6:30 – 11:00 p.m.

Where:  Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, CO 80303

Contact: Dan Willging, 303-870-1156, [email protected]

KGNU Community Radio and Colorado Friends of Cajun-Zydeco Music and Dance (CFCZ) celebrate Mardi Gras with an evening of revelry, music and dancing featuring Step Rideau & The Zydeco Outlaws on Saturday, February 22, 2025.

Tickets are available at kgnu.org or at the door. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. A Zydeco dance lesson follows at 7:00 and music is at 8:00. The Avalon Ballroom’s spacious dance floor will be vibrating and shaking with enthusiasm at this annual tradition. There will be a Mardi Gras costume contest with prizes, so be sure to jest in zest in your festive best. So the gaudier and bawdier, the better! Longmont Councilwoman and KGNU Board Chair Shiquita Yarbrough will emcee the event.

Step Rideau was born in the St. Landry Parish village of LeBeau, Louisiana. Although Step was surrounded by Zydeco music and Creole culture since infancy, it wasn’t until relocating to Houston in the mid-1980’s that he began playing accordion and eventually formed his band, The Zydeco Outlaws. Today, Step is widely acknowledged as one of the living masters of the loud little box. Over the decades, he has established himself with multiple recordings and festival appearances nationwide as a passionate Zydeco performer and songwriter.

LA Kitchen will provide scrumptious Creole gumbo for purchase. Wine & beer will be available and complimentary King Cake will be served after the costume contest.

This event benefits KGNU Community Radio and CFCZ.  KGNU is an independent community-powered, listener-supported Community Radio Station, broadcasting since 1978. Listen at 88.5 FM in Boulder and Denver, 1390 AM in Denver, 93.7 FM Nederland, 98.7 FM in Fort Collins, 99.1 FM in Central Denver, online at kgnu.org, and from our mobile app for Android or iPhone/iPad.  The Colorado Friends of Cajun-Zydeco Music and Dance is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring Louisiana French culture, music and dance to the Front Range.

Tickets:

$40 Early Bird Price Online until midnight, February 21, 2025
$50 at the door
$20 students with a valid ID
Dance Lesson included with Admission
Kingfish Tables $300 / 8 seats

Tickets and more information available at kgnu.org or eventbrite

For questions: contact Dan Willging at 303-870-1156 | [email protected]