Kristen DeBord, who attended a Koo Koo show in Seattle in 2022, describes the dance and music duo as a “mix between Sesame Street and the Beastie Boys.”

Whatever the musical mix, the popular two-man show is coming to Wrangell.

Koo Koo, formerly known as Koo Koo Kanga Roo, will perform at 4 p.m. Aug. 8 at the Nolan Center. Even better, it’s free.

“They’re a fun, family-friendly dance duo,” said DeBord, who was effusive in her description of the 2022 show in Seattle: “It was a blast!”

And it’s not just mom’s opinion. “My kids really liked them.”

After seeing vocalists Bryan Atchison and Neil Olstad put on their show in Seattle, “we stayed in touch,” DeBord said. “They were interested in coming to Alaska.”

Though the duo usually charges about $7,500 for a show, “they cut us a deal and they’re coming up for $5,000,” and even buying their own plane tickets, she said.

DeBord said she and Bearfest organizer Sylvia Ettefagh went to work to pull it together. “We had a lot of fundraisers.”

Not only is Wrangell Koo Koo’s first show in Alaska, it’s an exclusive — no other Alaska shows are on the schedule.

Atchison and Olstad, who are based in Minneapolis and bill themselves as an “interactive dance party duo,” travel extensively as Koo Koo, with shows in North Dakota and Iowa the week before Wrangell, followed by Portland and Washington state, and then eight shows in the United Kingdom in September.

They met in 2004 as freshmen at St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota, and after a few years in a campus rock band they created Koo Koo in 2008, according to their website.

The musical dance show started as an experiment for the university’s annual battle of the bands. “The idea centered around crowd participation, comedy and dance music.”

They started touring, playing in “bars, basements and barbecues,” according to their website, then released albums and music videos, moving into “dance-a-long” videos “to help them demonstrate the moves that audiences would need to know at their shows.”

Of course, they also expanded into creating YouTube videos.

And for people who watch, listen and dance to Koo Koo in Wrangell on Aug. 8 and get hungry or thirsty, the Nolan Center concession stand will be open for the show.