The 2013 Entertainment Schedule and Chef Demo Schedule will be announced soon. For now, here’s a look at last year’s line-up.
- The ENTERTAINERS & CHEFS (THE WEDGE CO-OP LOCAL FOODS/LOCAL ARTS STAGE)
- PERFORMANCE & CHEF DEMO SCHEDULE
- KID’S STAGE
- PECULIAR PRAGMATIC PROMENADE
- KITE MAKING
The “THROWING OUT THE FIRST BULB” Opening Ceremony
Get and early start on the silliness at 9:50 a.m. as our guest dignitaries and festival entertainers participate in the tradition of inaugurating the 2012 Garlic Season and the opening of the festival day by “throwing out the first bulb.”
THE WEDGE CO-OP LOCAL FOODS/LOCAL ARTS STAGE
Celebrity Chef Demos
Chef Demos happen every hour, under the direction of our Chef Wrangler, Maven of Mmmm, and Flamen of Flavor: Mary Jane Miller!
The Roe Family Singers
A good-time, old-time hillbilly band from the Mississippi-headwaters community of Kirkwood Hollow, MN, the Roe Family Singers are led by Kim Roe (Best Female Vocalist, City Pages/Village Voice) and Quillan Roe (of the band Accident Clearinghouse), the group blends that old-time sound with rock & roll urgency. Featuring banjo, autoharp, guitar, and washboard, they have won such diverse and seemingly contradictory awards as the prestigious McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians, and the title of “World’s Best” at the 29th Annual Battle of the Jug Bands. They promise to “raise a ruckus” on the festival stage.
The Mateo Flamenco Collective
This year the Wedge Co-op Local Foods/Local Arts Stage will be taken over by the thundering hooves of the Mateo Flamenco Collective. Famed Spanish Guitarist, Scott Mateo-Davies, and his team of passion-inducing dancers and musicians will wow you with the staccato flurry of masterful guitar riffs, vocals, and dance; all spiced to perfection with “palmas” (highly intricate hand clapping).
Mu Community Taiko Drummers
The Mu Community Taiko Drummers return with their highly physical and riveting Japanese drumming. As zestful and potent as garlic itself, these enthusiastic and impressive players will thunder and shake the performance stage.
The Light of the Moon Band
Returning after a year’s absence, Light of the Moon Band brings their own brand of unstoppable toe-tapping hyperfolk all around the grounds.
The Narren
The Narren of New Ulm is an entire village of elaborately masked characters – funny, quirky and just a bit scary – each with their own personality and story. An old German festival tradition (“narren” means fool), think of them as the relatives everyone has but no one wants to own.
Oriel
Oriel – Brandon Wiarda and Kevin Carl – create an energetic and exuberant blend of folk, pop and ambient music…and they are farmers, too! A runner-up in the Best Minnesota Albums of 2011 list, Brandon and Kevin also operate Sleepy Root CSA Farm.
Minneapolis Police Pipe & Drum Corp
Scottish bagpipes and drums at their finest, leading the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade, playing throughout the grounds, and piping us out at the end of the day.
PERFORMANCE and CHEF DEMO SCHEDULE
PERFORMANCES & CHEF DEMOS
10:30 Roe Family Singers (Subject to change)
11:00 Christopher Sipiorski, Common Roots Cafe
11:30 Roe Family Singers
12:00 Steven Brown, Tilia
12:30 Flamenco Collective
1:00 Joe Hatch-Surisook, Sen Yai Sen Lek
{1:37 Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade}
2:00 Marshall Paulsen, The Birchwood Cafe
2:30 Flamenco Collective
3:00 Mary Jane Miller, Thousand Hills Cattle Company
3:30 Oriel
4:00 Cooking with Eversharp
4:30 Mu Community Taiko Drummers
4:45 Garlic Contest Winners Announced
5:00 Elizabeth Ries, host of “Twin Cities Live” and blogger at Home to Homestead
5:30 “People’s Choice” Wine/Beer Winners Announced
5:35 Mu Community Taiko Drummers
5:55 Bagpipe Farewell
THE KIDS STAGE
We have activities and shows for the kids all day long!
Plus: A workshop preparing kids to participate in the PECULIAR PRAGMATIC PROMENADE!
KIDS STAGE TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
10:05 The Narren
Dance and Play with a German Village of Masked Characters
10:30 Kids Creative Workshop
Make a jump rope from twine, bubble art, fish pins, coloring, bubble blowing and more!
12:00 Country Picnic Games
Apple Bobbing, Egg/Spoon Races and surprises!
12:30 – 1:25 ”Be In The Promenade!” Workshop
Make Musical Instruments from unusual things and play them as you march in the Promenade!
1:25 Line up for Promenade at the Twin Silos
1:37 March in the PECULIAR PRAGMATIC PROMENADE
2:15 Story Time
(2:00 – 4:00 KITES! Build your own kite in the Agribition Building,and then go fly it!)
3:00 The Narren
Dance and Play with a German Village of Masked Characters
3:30 Kids Creative Workshop
Make a jump rope from twine, bubble art, fish pins, coloring, bubble blowing and more!
4:30 Country Picnic Games
Apple Bobbing, Egg/ Spoon Races and more!
THE PECULIAR PRAGMATIC PROMENADE
1:37 P.M.
YOU can be a part of the parade! Bring your costume, your act – can you juggle? Hula Hoop? Dance? Unicycle? – or just your peppy promenading self and join in! Meet at the twin silos at 1:20 p.m.
The Promenade proceeds at precisely 1:37 p.m. to perambulate the public party already in progress at the Festival.
Who will be promenading, besides YOU? Minneapolis Pipe and Drum Corps, The Narren, Mu Community Taiko Drummers, Mateo Flamenco Collective, and many more!
KITE MAKING and FLYING
Agribition Building
2:00 – 4:00: Kids of all ages can build and decorate your on kite, and then go fly it! All under the direction of Dave Herzig, former director of The Minnesota Kite Society. Now, that’s what we call wind power! Suggested donation: $5