Czech out all of the enjoyable on the TCHCC Heritage Fest & Muziky, Oct. 17-18 in La Grange
The Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center in La Grange will host the thirteenth annual Heritage Fest & Muziky on Oct. 17 and 18. The Festival will start on Friday night on the terrace in entrance of the Main Center with the Octoberfest on the Deck starting at 4:30 p.m. with music by the Dujka Brothers from 6 – 9:30 p.m.
Mark and John Dujka have been making music collectively for over 36 years and have a number of acknowledgements to their identify. TCHCC’s well-known home made Chicken & Dumplings can be served whereas it lasts within the Hanslik Banquet Hall starting at 5:30P. Bring your garden chairs, however go away your coolers at residence, please!
Saturday, the massive day kicks off at 10 a.m. with a gap ceremony with the CHS Czech Royalty and space dignitaries at 10:30 a.m. The Ewald Kubota Hospoda can be full of chilly pivo and musical leisure by the Lavaca County Line Band and Mark Halata & Texavia from 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The Czech Heritage Society of Texas Youth Dancers can even carry out at 2P. In the Fraternal Mutual Pavilion, take pleasure in extra hospitality and music, together with a efficiency by The Vintage Drafts Band from 12 midday – 3 p.m. The Czech Fraternal Organizations will sponsor a wide range of enjoyable actions all day in that space too. No admission to the grounds and occasions on Friday night and Saturday in the course of the day!
Enjoy extra music on the annual Muziky, Muziky occasion from 7-9:30 p.m. within the Sanford Schmid Amphitheater, with gates opening at 5:30 p.m. Always a preferred a part of the Heritage Fest, this 12 months’s Legends Series is Part XI and can be celebrating 55 Years of the Red Ravens Band! The Red Ravens can be enjoying all of your favourite tunes as we journey via time, reliving on their journey to be one of many longest performing bands in Texas. Master of Ceremonies for the present can be Mr. John Dujka. Admission to the Amphitheater is barely $15, college students $10 and underneath 12 free. Tickets will be bought by money/examine on the gate solely.
In addition to having fun with the good music, you’re invited to walk the Czech Village, an early 1900s recreated village full with residential homes, barns, and shops. Demonstrations of formative years in Texas will happen all through the grounds all day, together with working within the Zapalac Saw Mill, the operation of the Czech Newspaper Museum press and engine, blacksmithing, corn shelling and grinding, hay urgent, and the making of textiles, cleaning soap, noodles, sausage, and extra. Children actions can be out there by the Leo’s Club (practice experience), CHS Royalty (video games), KJZT (pumpkin portray), SPJST, KJT and RVOS (video games) together with many different actions for everybody to participate in. The well-known Kolace Eating Contest (1P), Stein Holding Contest (3P), are a number of favorites. There can even be mule drawn wagon rides across the grounds all day!
An enormous vintage farm gear present sponsored by the South Texas Wheel Spinners & Crank Twisters Club and an enormous vintage/ traditional automotive present by H&H Automotive Supply of Schulenburg and La Grange NAPA, will unfold all through the Czech Village. The Janak Barn & Texas Czech Agricultural Museum shows farm practices and implements from the late 1800s to Forties. Visit the distributors for some good buys, together with contemporary, stone-ground corn meal for cooking, pickles, jellies & jams, and far more.
The Czech Village homes two music museums. The Czech Music Museum of Texas, situated within the Kalich House, options 4 genres of Czech music – classical, folks, polka, and liturgical. The Polka Lover’s Club of Texas Museum, situated within the Hoelscher House & Huebner Center, encompasses a show of Texas polka bands, in addition to memorabilia and images of the Polka Lover’s Club of America, Texas Chapter. Continued on again… Inside the TCHCC Main Center, cease by the Kopecky Gift Shop to browse the brandnew inventory of genuine Czech objects, T-shirts, caps, crystal, periodicals, giant choice of music CDs, and new Christmas decorations for 2025. The Hanslik Hall would be the web site of the annual KJT State Taroky Championship. Swing in there and so they’d be comfortable to show you this enjoyable card sport.
Enjoy the present featured displays on the Center: When Cotton was King within the museum and the up to date army and glass displays within the library. Have you at all times puzzled about your Czech roots? The spacious Melnar Library will supply assist with family tree analysis, and volunteers can be readily available to assist out.
In case of rain, the Fest will transfer to the consolation of the Pavilion Hall and Fairgrounds space. Plenty to do for the complete household. Come Czech out all of the enjoyable and selection you might think about.