CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Cheyenne Greek Festival may have taken a couple of years off, but the energy inside the Cheyenne Frontier Days Exhibition Hall on Friday made it seem like the event was never on hiatus in the first place.
Celebrating its 35th year as an event this weekend after taking 2020 and 2021 off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cheyenne Greek Festival — originally a low-key bazaar at the Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church on W. 27th St. before evolving into a full-scale festival — had all the sights, sounds and smells fit for a triumphant and long-awaited return.
The occasion was well-worthy of an enthusiastic “Opa” — a common Greek expression — or two.
“It’s really about, you know, kind of eat, drink and be merry,” Cheyenne Greek Festival co-chairman George Costopoulos said of the festival. “It’s just a lot of fun, it’s a celebration. … I love coming to this because I’ll see people that I haven’t seen since the last Greek Festival. So it’s almost like a homecoming.”
Below is a Cap City News photo gallery of the event:
