FREE Admission - Thanks to our sponsors!   Time                      Event                                                   Location                                  Saturday September 18, 2010 9:30-11:15 am              Polka Music – Karl Meis                                      Gold building 9:55 am                          Anvil Shoot                                                             Festival grounds 10 am                             Opening Ceremonies – tapping of keg                                      Gold building                                          Tapping of the keg by Carlos Lohrmann          Gold building                                          from Buenos Aires, Argentina. *              Booths and outside exhibits open                                                Festival grounds              Ellis County Historical Society Museum     Commercial building 11 am                                              Polka music and dancing begin                                                   Gold building                                                              Catherine Parish serving German meal                                   Schenk building 11:15 am – 1pm                         Polka Music – Hot Shots Band                                                       Gold building 12:30 pm                                       Dance lessons begin and continue all day                             Gold building 1-2:30 pm                                      Polka Music – Wes Windholz                                                          Gold building 1 pm                                                 Crowning of the Prince and Princess                                         Gold building                                          Dusty Schneider of Schoenchen and                                          Morgan Weber from Hays                                                                                                                 Wedding March – Every one invited to participate                Gold building 2 pm                               Anvil Shoot, B-29 Engine start up,                       Festival grounds                                          Wheat threshing           2:30 – 4 pm                                    Polka Music – Hot Shots                                                                    Gold building 4 pm                                                 Mud runs                                                                                                    Race track area                                                              Cooking Demonstration                                                                    Schenk building 4 – 5:30 pm                                    Polka music – Wes Windholz Band                                            Gold building 5:30 -7 pm                                     Polka music – John Fritzler Band                                                  Gold building 6:30 pm                                          Texas Hold’em Tournament                                                          Schenk building 7-8:30 pm                                      Polka Music - Country Dutchman Band    Gold building 8:30 -10 pm                                  Polka music – John Fritzler Band                                                  Gold building 10-11 pm                                       Polka Music - Country Dutchman Band    Gold building                                                              Sunday September 19, 2010 10:30 am                       Polka Mass (all are welcome)                           Gold building                                          Fr. Earl and the Catherine Choir                        11:30 am                       Anvil Shoot                                                              Festival Grounds                                          Booths and outside exhibits open                                                Festival grounds                                          Ellis County Historical Society Museum     Commercial building 11:30 am – 1pm                         Polka Music – Hot Shots Band                                                       Gold building 12 noon                          German meal served by Helen Werth              Schenk building                                          and Jeanette Pfannenstiel                                          1 – 3 pm                                           Polka music – John Fritzler Band                                                  Gold building 2 pm                                                 Dance contest                                                              Selection of 2011 Prince and Princess                                      Gold building 3– 4 pm                                            Polka Music – Wes Windholz                                                          Gold building 4:30 – 5:30 pm                             Polka Music Country Dutchman Band                                      Gold building 5:30-6 pm                                      Polka Music jam session-Country Dutchman Band        Gold building 6 pm                                                  Closing   * Carlos Lohrmann who lives in Buenos Aires, is a descendant of the Windholz family who came to Kansas from Herzog, Russia.  Carlos and other members of the Windholz family will celebrate their reunion in Hays the weekend of the Oktoberfest. His grandmother on the Windholz side of the family emigrated to Argentina from the same ancestral village in Russia. This special occasion for Carlos and his father Alfredo Carlos Lohrmann Windholz is the culmination of 8 years of working with Oren Windholz from Hays, Kansas and working on the history of Germans from Russia in Argentina.