Returning:  Sound of Sorgenbrecher, Jay Fox, Die Rhinelanders, Holzhacker Buam Schuhplattlergruppe, Encore, Polish-American Concert Band, Martin Brothers and The Deutschmeister Band

                Entertainment Featuring: 
 
• Opening ceremony with parade featuring colorful costumes and pageantry through the Festival grounds.

• Hummel Look-Alike Contest is a contest for all children from 2 to 10 years of age by pre-application. The children dress like the famous Hummel figurines with prizes awarded for the most authentic look-alike. This is the longest running similar contest in the U.S. (Sunday afternoon)

• Continuous live music  at 3 stages from local Germanic and ethnic bands, andour strolling buton box artist from Germantown,Wisc. Our featured band is AustrianExpress from Milwaukee,Wisc.

Watch for ourspecial guest Schuhplatter: the STV “Bavaria”from Cleveland, Ohio and “Edelweiss” from Detroit, Michigan.

• Scherenschnitt Artist Gudrun Wittgen of Hillsdale, Michigan will exhibit her art and demonstrate silhouette paper cutting in the Import Haus on Saturday and Sunday.

•   Schwabenhalle Outdoor Pavilion renamed the Hofbräuhalle features rain or shine entertainment throughout the day and evening.

• Large 56’ by 40’ wooden dance floor (in the Fest Zelt – the main tent: a 100 foot by 265 foot clear span tent with no poles! Made in Germany, just like at the Oktoberfest!) for dancing enjoyment, plus other dance floors on the Festival grounds.

•  Over 70 acres of free, lighted parking with people movers to deliver you to the main entrance gate on Seaman Street.  Parking areas can be entered from Starr Avenue, Corduroy Road or Seaman Street.  People movers operate continuously in a 27 acre parking area accessible from Seaman Road or Corduroy Road.  Other entrance gates are accessible from Starr or Seaman lots.New in 2010: Rain or shine parking at Starr Elementary School, Fassett Middle School and Clay High School (East lot) lots with shuttle bus service between these lots and the Festival grounds.

•  Handicapped parking available from Seaman Road.  Free handicapped shuttle on Festival grounds.