Willkommen Y’All!!

Beginning with one Oompah band on a flat-bed trailer twelve years ago the festival has become an annual tradition in Tomball and one of the best music/street festivals in Texas. Every year, on the very last weekend in March, festival-goers break out their Lederhosen and Dirndls “Go German” for the area’s largest festival celebrating the heritage of the original German families that settled this area beginning in about 1840. In other words in the case of German heritage there is much to celebrate in this part of Texas!

 

Klein German Festival on Feb. 6
41st annual event is scheduled for Feb. 24, 2012.

 

The 12th Annual Tomball German Heritage Festival will be March 30, 31, & April 1 located on the Old Downtown Streets of Tomball Texas near 201 S. Elm St., Main St. (FM 2920), and Market St. It is a Music/Street festival celebrating German and ethnic heritage with 5 stages of live music entertainment “happy music for happy people”, ethnic and festival food, beer, wine, 150 street vendors, all kinds of German souvenirs and clothing, arts crafts, antiques, Heritage Center, German church service, fireworks, carnival, pony ride, petting zoo, strolling music makers, street performers, and much more. Like Oktoberfest in March! You do not have to be German to enjoy this festival and there’s no admission and parking is free.

The Carnival opens Thursday evening March 29th with a special price for the “all you can ride” armband, and is located at the corner of Main and Cherry.

On Friday 30th at 6pm till 10pm the music begins featuring The Alex Meixner Band sponsored by Polkabeat.com, Alpenfest, Chris Rybak, de Texas KlopenDansers (Dutch), Valina and many more.

Saturday 31st at 10am till 10pm begins with the “tapping of the keg” and Willkommen ceremony for German exchange students and Tomball host families, and official opening by the Mayor of Tomball Gretchen Fagan. The music and dancing goes all day and into the night with more Alex Meixner Band, Enzian Buam, Round Top Brass Band, Cloggers Unlimited, German Folk Dance Groups, TubaMeisters, Armstrong Family Bluegrass and bluegrass jam sessions, Scandinavian Folk Dancers of Houston and more. At 9pm a beautiful fireworks display at Tomball’s newly restored Train Depot Plaza on the festival grounds. Bicycle Rally or Fahrradreisen on Saturday morning sponsored by Texas Wheels of Justice.

Sunday April 1st opens at 10am till 6pm with the Blasmusik Texas, Rathkamp German Dancers, Shelia Lee, Clements High School German Folk Dancers, and more.

The festival is sponsored by the Tomball/Telgte Sister City, Org. Wir sprechen Deutsch. For information contact Grady Martin 281-379-6844 gradsand@yahoo.com, www.tomballsistercity.org. For additional information, visit facebook. and Valina Polka.