1st Annual
OKTOBERFEST
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2009
Tickets: $5
Children: Kids 12 & under free
On Sale: Sept. 16

Shellabration Inc. is working hard to fulfill its longstanding goal of creating a new community festival. The event will take place on Saturday, October 10th at the Oleson Park Bandshell in Fort Dodge. Our vision is to recreate the atmosphere and cultural traditions of Deutschland’s oldest and the world’s largest annual festival, Oktoberfest. Complete with German culinary traditions such as bratwursts, hot German potato salad and sweet and sour red cabbage (to name a few), the event will feature 40’x100’ “Bier Garten” tent complete with regionally renowned “Oom Pah” and polka band Malek’s Fishermen. The band plays regularly at the Hessen House German restaurant in the Court Avenue District of Des Moines and will be featured at Des Moines’s Oktoberfest at Principal Park also. They play a terrific mix of traditional polka music and German bier hall favorites. The show is a lot of fun and big on crowd participation. Don’t miss out on the traditional tapping of the first keg scheduled to kick off the festival and as celebrated in Munich each year. Don your lederhosen and dirndls and prepare for some foot tapping, beer drinking fun. Leben ist gut!

Contributing to the ambience will be a selection of German draught beers, commemorative steins and Bavarian décor guaranteed to set the mood leading up to the evening’s main event and Bandshell stage headliner, Vic Ferrari. This Appleton, Wisconsin band is one of the hottest show bands in the Midwest. Featuring a powerful horn section, they play an incredibly vast array of music with something for everyone including Johnny Cash to Willie Nelson and Queen to Bon Jovi. They routinely sell out the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake and are a must see act for those that have never had the privilege. As with all Shellabration shows, we promise you’ll be wowed!

Want to take part in the Oktoberfest fun and also watch the big game? Thanks to both Mediacom and Aaron’s, you don’t have to choose. Our Bier Garten will feature a live ABC broadcast of the Iowa vs. Michigan game on a jumbo TV screen. Catch all the action in the most unique environment you’ve ever watched a game in, right in the middle of Oleson Park. This is the type of cool stuff that has come to typify a Shellabration event. If well received by those in attendance, we envision future events featuring live feeds of major sporting events. Come check it out!