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‘Rocktoberfest’ food-music event set for Sept. 30

Dennis Dalman by Dennis Dalman
September 21, 2023
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‘Rocktoberfest’ food-music event set for Sept. 30

contributed photo Gussied up in traditional Bavarian outfits, members of The Bavarian Musikmeisters perform at a festival. They will be one of two bands that will entertain at Rocktoberfest Sept. 30 in St. Joseph.

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by Dennis Dalman

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“Rocktoberfest” is about to transform the downtown St. Joseph area into a German-style Bavarian music-and-food festival, thanks to the St. Joseph Booster Club.

The event will take place on Saturday, Sept. 30 from 3-11 p.m. on the big parking lot across the street east of St. Joseph Catholic Church, at the same location where the Joe Town Rocks concert happens every July 3.

The St. Joseph Booster Club raises money for private schools throughout central Minnesota, and Rocktoberfest is just one of its ongoing fundraisers.

Rocktoberfest, a take-off name of the world-famous “Oktoberfest” (October Festival), which is held every fall in Munich, a city in Bavaria, Germany.

The St. Joseph version, now in its fifth year, is meant to celebrate the deep German immigrant roots in central Minnesota, especially the Germanic heritage of St. Joseph.

At Rocktoberfest, there will be a 12,000 square-foot heated tent in which to sample many German-style foods and Minnesota-brewed beers. There will also be fun activities such as beer stein-holding contests, axe throwing at targets or – for the less active participants – simply sitting and tapping toes to the music or perhaps jumping up to dance.

The festival is meant to be for adults 21 and older.

Entertainment will be provided by The Bavarian Musikmeisters from 3-7 p.m. and by Rhino from 7-11 p.m.

Musikmeisters is a 25-member wind-instrument band based in the Twin Cities. Formed in 1985, the band is modeled after the traditional village bands of Germany. Wearing traditional Bavarian outfits, its members perform waltzes, polkas, folk dances and ballads.

Rhino, also Twin Cities-based, is a four-member band that performs mainly throughout the Upper Midwest. It plays rock, pop and country.

Food will be available for sale from Dana’s Kitchen Food Truck. Choices include traditional German fare like kraut noodles with kielbasa, Bavarian broccoli slaw and pretzel bites with beer, as well as more down-home American options such as pulled-pork sandwiches, french fries and loaded tater tots.

Tickets for the celebration, $7 each, can be purchased in advance online at rocktoberfestmn.com.

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Gussied up in traditional Bavarian outfits, members of The Bavarian Musikmeisters perform at a festival. They will be one of two bands that will entertain at Rocktoberfest Sept. 30 in St. Joseph.
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Rhino, a Twin Cities-based band, will perform rock, pop and country songs at the Sept. 30 Rocktoberfest in St. Joseph.
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Dalman was born and raised in South St. Cloud, graduated from St. Cloud Tech High School, then graduated from St. Cloud State University with a degree in English (emphasis on American and British literature) and mass communications (emphasis on print journalism). He studied in London, England for a year (1980-81) where he concentrated on British literature, political science, the history of Great Britain and wrote a book-length study of the British writer V.S. Naipaul. Dalman has been a reporter and weekly columnist for more than 30 years and worked for 16 of those years for the Alexandria Echo Press.

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