Start Your 2024 Stampede Fun at FLUOR Rope Square!
Saturday, July 6th from 8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Monday to Saturday, July 8th-13th from 8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
CHUCKWAGON BREAKFASTS
Daily 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Get your flapjacks and bacon hot off the griddles from the back of the authentic Cowboys Rangeland Derby Chuckwagons and Fluor Smokies at Fluor Rope Square. You might even get to meet one of the drivers! Fluor Rope Square serves up our famous bacon pancakes daily.
ENTERTAINMENT & ACTIVITIES
Entertainment starts at 8:30 a.m. daily
Fluor Rope Square presents family friendly entertainment including dancers, singers, fiddlers, clowns, face painting, mascots, and a High Noon Hootenanny with country music artists. Featured acts over the week include:
Everyday: High Steppin Daddy
Saturday the 6th: Travelling Mabels
Monday: Lucky Sonne
Tuesday: Quinton Blair
Wednesday: Cole Malone
Thursday: Keepin it Country
Friday: The Charms
Saturday the 13th: Double Suede
You could be invited to compete in the Lammles World Championship Hat Stomping Contest, the Fluor Great Western Flapjack Flip, or be sworn in as a honourary Calgarian. Don’t forget to enter the Fluor Daily Prize Draw!
OLD TIME RIGS
Tour downtown Calgary in a horse-drawn old time rig. DTA volunteers will be randomly giving out these free tickets to people at Fluor Rope Square this year. Ticket holders are then escorted from Fluor Rope Square at 9:30 a.m. to the departure point on 9th Avenue and 1st Street SW (EnCana Place across from the Palliser Hotel). The tour leaves at 10 a.m. and takes approximately one hour.
Note: this activity is not suitable for those with mobility restrictions.
FIRST NATIONS PARADE
Parade starts at 11:30 a.m. daily (weather permitting)
Members of the five tribes of Treaty 7, dressed in traditional regalia, proudly share their heritage and culture through dance, music and commentaries. Come join them in the Friendship Dance.
SQUARE DANCING
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. daily
Kick up your heels and join our square dancers on Stephen Avenue between Centre and 1st Street SW. Experience isn’t necessary! With the help of our Fluor Square Dancers, anyone can learn to dance.
About the Downtown Attractions Committee
The Calgary Stampede Downtown Attractions Committee (DTA) was formed in 1947 by a group of square dancers dancing on the back of a rig and traveling downtown from hotel to hotel. It became an official Calgary Stampede Committee in 1953 and today brings the Stampede spirit and western heritage to downtown during the Calgary Stampede.
DTA has evolved into the largest Calgary Stampede Committee with over 325 year-round volunteers. During Stampede week, we are joined by another 180 volunteers from Fluor, our major sponsor. ALL events and activities hosted by DTA are coordinated by volunteers and ALL are FREE!