After being cancelled just two days before it was scheduled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Frozen Dead Guy Days will have another year to defrost. 

The organizers of the annual March festival that attracts the curious from across the world to Nederland announced that, despite COVID-19 restrictions easing, they couldn’t guarantee the event would be as safe and free-spirited as years past and decided to postpone until 2022.

But as life continues to edge toward normalcy, the organizers are now focusing on a new challenge to keep the festival frozen: funding.

Last year’s cancellation was disastrous to the festival’s balance sheets as payments were made to all who helped set things up — and even some who didn’t, due to contract agreements.

Now organizers are hoping to be awarded funds through the Save Our Stages Grant stimulus that was passed by Congress in December. 

“(The grant money) would allow FDGD to recover enough of the losses in 2020 to go on,” FDGD officials said in a release.

“If that funding doesn’t happen, we’d likely turn to crowdfunding.”

Throughout the pandemic, festivalgoers have shown support by purchasing FDGD’s unique merchandise, which has kept the dream of a 2022 festival alive. 

Even though the three-day festival is cancelled this year, organizers will continue monitoring the situation, and are considering hosing a late summer “Melt Down Get Down,” one-day ice-breaker event.

But for now, organizers are staying positive that their unique Colorado experience that brings live music, coffin races, polar plunges and frozen t-shirt contests to a small mountain town just northwest of Denver, will be back better than ever next year.

“We are crossing our fingers and hoping for the best going forward,” officials said.

“Stay Tuned & Freeze on!”