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Czechs in Victoria, Wends in Serbin!
Victoria Shares Czech Heritage
From accordion music, to Tarok playing, polka, food, and history, you can find it all at the 33rd Annual Victoria
Czech Heritage Festival on Sun., Sept. 22, at the Victoria Community Center, sponsored by the Victoria County Czech Heritage Society.
The festival begins promptly at 9:30 am with five musical events held throughout the day. Victoria's own Pat Veit will welcome everyone to the festival with his accordion. Fritz Hodde & Fab 6 will play from 10:30 am to 1:30 pm, followed by the Ennis Czech Boys from 1:30-4 pm. ECB will then battle Mark Halata & Texavia before Texavia headlines from 4:30-7:30 pm. Additional entertainment can be found in the Community Center Annex with Los Kolaches from Shiner, sponsored by Texas Polka News, performing from 2-6 pm.
The festival organizers not only want you to enjoy all that's Czech but learn the traditions as well. New this year will be a one-hour demonstration - Old School Kolaches - by Dawn Orsak. Texas Polka News is proud to sponsor this special attraction.
Admission is only $8 per person for all four bands and activities, with youth under 15 years old
always free.
Wendish Fest 31
The Texas Wendish Heritage Museum and historic St. Paul Lutheran church - one of the painted churches of Texas - will present the 31st Annual
Wendish Fest on Sun., Sept. 22.
Enjoy a fun, family-oriented day in Serbin (six miles southwest of Giddings) featuring traditional Wendish foods like sausage, sauerkraut, and those famous homemade Wendish noodles. Throughout the day there will be folkways and folklife demonstrations and exhibits, competitions like the Coffee Cake Bake-Off and washer pitching, children's activities, Wendish Easter egg decorating and display, vintage machinery, plus POLKA music!
Featured entertainers this year will be The Moravians from Ennis. They'll get the music going about 1:30 pm. But you will want to be around at 12:45 when you can bid on winning coffee cake bake off entries!! Auction proceeds benefit the Texas Wendish Heritage Scholarship Fund.
An English worship service will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church at 8:30 am, and a German worship service will be held at 10:30 am with Rev. Mark Barz as guest speaker. Rev. Barz currently serves as 3rd Vice President of the Texas District, Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
More fests:
Czech Day at National Hall in Fort Worth on Saturday: Jodie Mikula Orchestra
Addison Oktoberfest Thursday-Sunday: Alex Meixner, Alpenmusikanten, Alpine Village Band, Ennis Czech Boys, Walburg Boys, Das Ist Lustig, Aug Geht's
MDA Oktoberfest in Waco on Saturday: Mike Middleton/The Middletones, Czech & Then Some, Czech Melody Masters
Church picnic alert!
CYCLONE: Jerry Haisler/Melody 5 @ St. Joseph's Picnic, 11:30A-2P
Check out these TPN/polkabeat advertisers
Cistern Country Store Friday: DJ Superman...Saturday: Brandi & Keith...Thursday (9/26): DJ Marty-Mar
Krause's Cafe Saturday: NB Village Brass Band, Bavarian Brass Band from Markt Erkheim, and The Oompahs...Wednesday (9/25): Chris Rybak
Mullins Prairie Store Saturday: Brian Pavlock
Schroeder Hall Friday: Bar Ditch Hippies...Saturday: The Emotions
Also this weekend
Friday: Billy Mata in Austin...Sean Orr in Austin..Randy Harrison in Geronimo...Texas Sound Check at Karbach's in Houston (Note time change - had been 5-6P, now it's 7-8P)...Glen Collins & The Alibis in Lago Vista...Off the Grid at Pavlas Tavern in Moulton...Charles & Fab 4 in Seguin
Saturday
: Jody Nix in Anhalt...Mike Stroup & Moravian Woodpeckers in Flatonia...Ennis Czech Boys at Pavlas Tavern in Moulton...Dujka Brothers in New Braunfels...TubaMeisters in Round Rock...Al Sulak & Country Sounds in Wallis
Sunday: Czech Melody Masters in Elgin...Liz Talley & Dusty Spur at Houston VFW...Mike Stroup in Round Top...SA Country at Martinez Social Club
Looking ahead to next week:
Monday - Charles Thibodeaux & Austin Cajun Aces in Austin.
Tuesday
- San Antonio Accordion Association at Chester's...
Alan Walling in Plano (Wed., too!)...Hit-n-Run in The Woodlands...Roger Kirby & Texas Heartbeat in Waco.
Wednesday
- Glen Collins & The Alibis in Austin...Mike Stroup Trio in Flatonia...Burgundy at Martinez Social Club...Keith Hickle in Schulenburg...
Thursday
- Off the Grid in Austin...Al Sulak & Country Sounds in El Campo
Oktoberfests next weekend: Fort Worth, McKinney, Houston, San Antonio
Western Swing & BBQ Festival in Lockhart
Coming to University of North Texas in Denton on Sept. 21:
Songs of Czechia featuring Bree Nichols, and on Sept. 23:
Faculty/Guest Artist Recital - Martin Vodrazka, baritone and Willem van Schalkwyk, piano
Party all weekend and Polka On!
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Danny Zapletal of Czech & Then Some is a TPN fan, shown at the Kolache Festival in Caldwell, Sept. 14! Are you a fan? Send your photo to [email protected] holding up the paper, Polka On! button, koozie, wearing a Polka On!/TPN t-shirt wherever you happen to be and we'll post on Facebook and include in the paper.
Visit texaspolkanews.com to see latest issue.
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Caldwell Kolache Festival
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Click on photo to see images by
Gary E. McKee
Watch the videos by George Weber of Czech & Then Some and The Moravians
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Schuetzenfest in Round Top
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Click on photo to see images by Walt Harfmann and Gary E. McKee
Watch the videos by Walt Harfmann of
The Original Bavarian Blasmusik and
Donnie Wavra band
BONUS: videos from James & Halie Marek's wedding reception in Marak - Dujka Brothers, Fritz Hodde/Fab 6, & Lee Roy Matocha Band Review
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Click on photo to see images by
Joe Cool Pavlicek
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Click on photo to see images by Julie Matus and Gary E. McKee
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Watch the videos
by Walt Harfmann of Schuetzenfest with
The Original Bavarian Blasmusik and
Donnie Wavra...James & Halie Marek wedding reception with Dujka Brothers, Fritz Hodde/Fab 6, and Lee Roy Matocha Review...
Walburgfest with Walt & Kurt Harfmann, Walburg Boys, & AlpenMusikanten...Fritz Hodde & Fab 6 at Granger picnic...Dujka Brothers & Praha Brothers at Praha Picnic...Mark Halata & Texavia at Elgin.
Watch the videos
by George Weber of Czech & Then Some and The Moravians at Caldwell Kolache Festival...Texas Sound Check, Charles & Fab 4, Mark Halata & Texavia at PoLK of A party in New Taiton...Ennis Czech Boys, Dujka Brothers, Mason Nesvadba at at East Bernard Kolache Fest...Shiner Hobos and Mark Halata/Texavia at Shiner Picnic.
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WEEKLY LAUGH
Upon hearing that her elderly grandfather had just
passed away, Katie went straight to her
grandparent's house to visit her 95-year-old
grandmother and comfort her. When she asked
how her grandfather had died, her grandmother
replied, "He had a heart attack while we were
making love on Sunday morning."
Horrified, Katie
told her grandmother that 2 people nearly 100
years old having sex would surely be asking for
trouble.
"Oh no, my dear," replied Granny. "Many
years ago, realizing our advanced age, we figured
out the best time to do it was when the church
bells would start to ring. It was just the right
rhythm. Nice and slow and even. Nothing too
strenuous
." She paused to wipe away a tear, and
continued, "He'd still be alive if the ice cream truck
hadn't come along."
Submitted by Shane Lala Share your jokes:
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