For 32 years Telluride’s community radio station KOTO Radio has inspired the funkiest, scariest and most laughable dress-up night of the year with the annual Halloween Bash. Always held the Saturday before All Hallows Eve, this year’s party scared socks off.
It's a real local's favorite, and it's not just the prize money that has people coming back to the party. Telluride folks like to dress up, really dress up. Whatever the occasion—a softball game, barbecue, bluebird ski day, fundraiser, parade, and all of the usual costume-calling holidays—Telluride likes to don disguises.
Halloween pasts have witnessed KOTO party-goers going as John Lennon and Yoko Ono (lying in bed), Princess Leia (with light saber), a kayaker (without a river), skiers (without snow), and cops (to scare people). The costume party is exactly as it’s always been deemed, a bash. This year the Sheridan Opera House was filled with pirates, draculas, St. Pauli's girls and boys, Marie Antoinette's and her executioners.
This year's winner is everyone's ongoing annoyance: Keystone Hill construction with couple Lisa Sabella and Kevin Hanley.
The party has moved from the Lawson Hill’s old art factory to the Quonset hut in town, to a semi-outdoor venue under the big white tent on the west end of town. This year's Halloween Bash was at the historic, haunted and spooky Opera House—perfect.
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