At one point in time, the relentlessly percolating bass lines of Hartmut Hillmann defied categorization. So Hillmann started referring to it as “urban folk funk." It did not go over well. “That ...
At the Beethoven Halle und Garten, home to Southtown's year-round Oktoberfest atmosphere, summer Fridays make for a quaint scene as the bratwurst simmers, the drinks are iced and the crowd begins to ...
AMANA - Members of the singing and dancing troupe that helped make Amana's Oktoberfest what it is, are joining a new generation of colony musicians to form the new Amana Colony Folksingers. The group ...
Susan Jurgelski Jul 24, 2006 Jul 24, 2006 Updated Sep 11, 2013 At long last, he and his fellow keepers of German culture in the Lancaster Liederkranz folk-dance group Alpenrose Schuhplattler Verein ...
With a flurry of claps and slaps, the dance was set in motion. High-energy, rockin’ alpine music drove the dancers through their moves. Inside the German American Klub’s spacious dance hall, the ...
This article explores the German band Corvus Corax and their reinterpretion of the Middle Ages as a creative answer to Germany’s problematic history of nationalism. Invoking the community ideals and ...
It’s the final weekend of Wurstfest, the New Braunfels-based annual festival which celebrates German food, beer and, of course, music. The festival began as a single-day event in 1961, an homage to ...