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Also see our listings for Community Festivals and Food & Drink Festivals along with Music, Dance and Theater listings. One of Colorado’s largest outdoor events, this Labor Day weekend celebration features culinary delights from 50 restaurants, accompanied by national, local and ethnic music on eight stages. Aug. 31-Sept. 3 in Civic Center Park, Colfax Avenue and Broadway, Denver. 303-295-6330; www.atasteofcolorado.com BOULDER REVELS, annually in spring Revel in local wine, mead, cheese and chocolate annually in March. Now in its sixth year, this event features live music, samples of cheese from Haystack Mountain Goat Dairy and chocolate from Concertos in Chocolate, plus tastes of over 25 different wines and meads from Boulder County’s five wineries and meaderies: Augustina’s Winery, BookCliff Vineyards, Boulder Creek Winery, Medovina (which makes mead in Niwot) and Redstone Meadery. Call for specific date and location. 720-406-1215. CONOR O'NEILL'S WORLD'S SHORTEST ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE AND FESTIVAL, March 16, 2008 Don your finest kilt on March 16 and take in bagpipers, Irish dancers and Irish wolfhounds at this lively block-and-a-half-long parade that runs up 13th Street from Conor O’Neill’s to Spruce Street and back again. The festival follows the parade in the parking lot behind Conor O’Neill’s with music, games, beer and food. Call for details. 303-449-1922; www.conoroneills.com. GREAT AMERICAN BEER FESTIVAL, annually in the fall More than 40,000 people say “bottoms up” for this festival all about beer. Sample more than 1,600 different American beers from more than 370 breweries (well, better not sample all of them). The festival is annully in the fall. Check the website for 2008 dates. 303-447-0816; www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com. INTERNATIONAL MEAD FESTIVAL: HONEY WINES OF THE WORLD, Annually in February Honey wine, the “drink of love,” is the toast of the International Mead Festival, hosted by Boulder’s own Redstone Meadery. 720-406-1215; www.meadfest.com. LAFAYETTE OATMEAL FESTIVAL, Annually in January Oatmeal, that cholesterol-lowering comfort food, is the reward after the Oatmeal Festival’s signature event, the Quicker Quaker 5k race (a Bolder Boulder qualifier). The breakfast offers more than 140 oatmeal toppings, as well as oatmeal pancakes and muffins. A health fair and baking contest are also part of the fun. Breakfast begins at 7:30am, and the 5k steps off promptly at 9am. Festivities run until 1pm. 303-926-4352; www.discoverlafayette.com. LAFAYETTE PEACH FESTIVAL, annualy in summer DEverything's peachy Aug. 18, with truckloads of fresh Colorado peaches, plus jam, pies, cobbler, smoothies, sales and more. Activities at the festival, which runs 9am-4pm, include art demonstrations, music—including the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra—and children's art. Festival takes place alng three blocks of South Public Road, Lafayette, 303-926-4352; www.discoverlafayette.com. STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL ANTIQUE SHOW, May 17-18 Come for history; come for antiques; but especially, come for the strawberry shortcake with real whipped cream. Longmont’s 39th Annual Strawberry Festival Antique Show takes place May 17-18, with a wide variety of furniture, glassware, quilts, toys and jewelry. This fundraiser for the St. Vrain Historical Society is held in the Exhibit Building at Boulder County Fairgrounds, Hover and Nelson roads. 303-776-1870. TASTE OF ESTES, April 24 Take a virtual edible tour of Estes Park at this culinary delight. Held all day April 24 at the Estes Park Conference Center, 101 S. St. Vrain Ave. 970-586-5800.
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