The festival and ride are designed to Celebrate our Veteran Heroes with an honor ride to Ft. Logan National Cemetery (details of the ride BELOW); followed by an all-day festival featuring live Country and Rock bands throughout the afternoon and evening. Food will be available with breakfast burritos for the riders (starting 8:30 am), and food inside of Wheelz Bar and Grill during the event. Booths with cloths, crafts, Bonsai classes and live podcasts with Veteran and Family related subjects will be on site. Big Wheel Racing will also be available during the afternoon at the festival. Riders will compete throughout the afternoon with prizes awarded at 6 pm. There will be raffles during the day for multiple prizes and several trips will all monies going towards our efforts to employ, enrich and empower Veterans though Re Generative Forestry and Tours for Veterans.

Trillion Tree Corps will be honoring 100 deceased Veterans with trees planted at Ft. Logan Cemetery (or nearby) and 56 Living Veterans from Front Range area American Legion and VFW Posts (as chosen by the Posts with representation from all six branches of the Military) at designated planting sites, who have served their Country with honor and distinction. Honors for the deceased will be at the Cemetery while honors for the Living Honorees (Post and ALR) will be throughout the afternoon at the Festival Event site - Wheelz bar and Grill.

In conjunction with ML Gratitude, we will also be honoring riders from the American Legion Riders of Colorado (ALL 14 Districts of the state) with our regular honor ceremonies *PLUS* by having a drawing (at the event) with one representative rider from the 38 ALR units entered - to receive a motorcycle provided by ML Gratitude. The chosen honoree must meet ML Gratitude's winner requirements with each district of the ALR submitting qualified entrants. Just a couple of rules:

1) Veteran must be able to provide a copy of their DD-214

2) Veteran must not own an operational motorcycle.

3) The recipient is solely responsible

for obtaining motorcycle endorsement,

title, tax and insurance.

4) Veteran must be able to come to

Colorado to accept the motorcycle.

 

CELEBRATION OF HEROES HONOR RIDE:
8:30 am: Honor Ride Registration at ML GRATITUDE BOOTH in Wheelz parking lot for Post and ALR contingents. All riders sign liability waiver. $20 Rider/ $10 passenger. Each paid ticket gets Raffle ticket entry. Poker Run on ride with Payouts for High Hand & Low Hand.
9:00 am: General Registration begins for Honor Ride- same pricing.
10:00-1:30 pm: Honor ride (82.9 MILES/ 2 HOURS RIDE TIME) starting at Wheelz 10 am to:
1. Elizabeth American Legion Post #82. Refreshments, Reception and TTC WARRIOR Post honors. 39.4 miles (over Cherry Creek dam)
2. Breckenridge Brewery outside area and adjacent tree area by river to see plantings. 36.3 miles via highways 86, 85.
3. Ft. Logan National Cemetery, to Honor TTC, ML Gratitude, and Wheelz family members. 100 deceased District 4,5 and 6. 5.7 miles.
4. Return to Wheelz. 2.8 miles.
5. Payout Poker run Winners.

WOODSTOCKED @ WHEELZ FESTIVAL:
12:30 pm: Festival starts in parking lot. Opening Announcement by Steele Smith/ Kim Thompkins outside PA system. 50/50 Raffle ticket sales begin.
1:00 pm: Silver Vincenetti Band - Opening set (1 hour set with 1 break of 15 minutes for honor celebration/raffle- 2.25 hours total). INSIDE Wheelz.
1:30 pm: Riders return from Ft. Logan Honor Ride. 1st Celebration of Heros (OUTSIDE on ML Gratitude P.A. System) - Dist. 3 Vets & ALR. 8 new TCOH.
1:45 pm: First Raffle – directly following Hero Ceremonies

2:00 pm: Second Celebration of Heroes ceremony (OUTSIDE) - District 5 Vets and ALR Chapters. 7 new TCOH. 
2:15 pm: Silver Vincenetti 2nd set (45 minutes set). INSIDE.
3:00 pm: Third 0Celebration of Honors ceremony (OUTSIDE) – District 6 Vets and D6 ALR Chapters. 7 new TCOH.
3:15 pm: Live Auction – Steele and Kim Host (OUTSIDE). Second Raffle.
3:30 pm: Fourth Celebration of Honors ceremony (OUTSIDE) – District 1,2 Vets (Multiple posts, all D1, D2 ALR Chapters) 21 new TCOH.

4:00 pm: Last Train to Juarez Band - Opening set (1st set 1-hour, Total band time 4 hours). INSIDE.

4:30 pm: Final Celebration of Heroes Ceremony District 4 and in house staff for Wheelz, ML Gratitude, and TTC - 13 new TCOH

5:00 pm: Woodwide Warrior Network Radio Broadcast ends (OUTSIDE BOOTH).
5:00 pm: FINAL RAFFLE OF TRIP AND DRAWING FOR ML GRATITUDE MOTORCYCLE. 50/50 raffle ends.
5:30 pm: Last Train to Juarez Band 2nd Set. INSIDE.
6:00 pm: Outside event ends.
6:00-8pm: Last Train to Juarez continues their concert inside.

Bands:
Silver Vincenzetti / Silverthorne:

Colorado Country Music Hall of Fame Singer (2021) and Comeback Artist if the Year (2023) and her band Silver Thorn, will open the music for the festival at 2:00 pm. Complete Band Itinerary will be released 3.1.24. Entry to Festival is FREE. Food and alcohol (served inside) will be available at posted costs.

Last Train to Juarez
Last Train to Juarez was formed in 2019 by Dejan Knezevic who up until that point, spent the majority of his life playing in metal bands in the Phoenix, AZ area. The transition from metal to country occurred several years after Dejan discovered what he refers to as the modern outlaws of country music today.

Artists like Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, Ward Davis, Billy Don Burns, Josh Morningstar, Hank 3 and others who break the mold of what many in the mainstream world today consider 'country music'. After discovering these artists, it wasn't long before Dejan would change course and pursue a career in country music.

Last Train to Juarez blends the old traditional sounds of country music with an edge that can be attributed to Dejan's history of playing in metal bands most his life.

A Last Train to Juarez show is packed with original music along with songs from artists that influenced Dejan's writing over the years. The band is well equipped to handle showcase style gigs as well as 3-to-4-hour performances that will keep your guests entertained all night long.

The music from Last Train to Juarez will take the listeners on a dynamic ride with both highs and lows, dance songs, ballads and thought-provoking authentic lyricism that comes from the soul.
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Dejan's vision for the project is simple. To keep the music honest, authentic and real with no use of "Computer magic" to make them sound better. This means no auto-tune, no backing tracks and no smoke and mirrors at all. At a Last Train to Juarez show, everything you hear is being played LIVE and that authenticity is core to what Dejan believes in.

Last Train to Juarez currently plays about 150 shows per year and is ramping that up quickly with aggressive touring. They have released an EP, Dirt & Stone as well as a full album, "Some Road" and there is a long pipeline of new material waiting to be recorded and released.