Round Rock Edition | October 2023

Events

BY AMIRA VAN LEEUWEN

A wooden keg of Shiner Bock beer is tapped during the opening ceremonies of the festival.

Wurstfest is held in New Braunfels on the Wurstfest Grounds next to Landa Park.

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Wurstfest in New Braunfels holds ‘Salute to Sausage’ Wurstfest—a nonprot whose mission is to pre- serve local community heritage in New Braunfels— is back for its 62nd year. Last year, the festival had 240,000 attendees primary building where about 20 local nonprots set up booths to sell food and merchandise—was a signicant improvement to the Wurstfest grounds.

Wurstfest hosts a variety of musical performers, including polka bands, folk groups and brass bands.

The festival will host 42 entertainment acts across ve stages over the 10-day celebration, totaling 367 hours of live music. “Everyone should make it a point to experience [the opening ceremony] and participate in the longstanding traditions of the ‘biting of the sau- sage’ and the ‘tapping of the keg.’ If you want to experience true Gemütlichkeit, this is the moment to do it,” he said. Gemütlichkeit means cheer or friendliness. Tharp said rst-time attendees go to a weekend day starting at 11 a.m. to get the full experience. A full schedule is available at www.wurstfest.com.

over its 10-day span, and the same is expected for this year, said Dan Tharp, the chair of the Wurst- fest Association Marketing Committee. “It’s [a] Texas tradition for so many families that never miss a year,” Tharp said. What you need to know This year, Wurstfest—one of the largest Okto- berfest-style festivals in the United States—will take place Nov. 3-12. Tharp said there has not been a year that the festival has not improved, noting the recent rebuild of the Marketplatz—the

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120 Landa St., New Braunfels www.wurstfest.com

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