Beer, music, food, movies? Um, yes please. All that and more is promised at VOLKSFEST. Billed as “Louisville’s First Annual People’s Fest” this big block party at Main and Clay downtown promises fun in pretty large quantities.
From the press release:
Festivities are from 2:00pm-midnight and will include German food, a German theme movie plus The Red Hot Rascal Bavarian Experience and live local rock n roll!
BBC & New Albanian Brewing Company will be blocking off Clay Street between East Market & Main and will be spicing up a usual sleepy Saturday downtown scene. This event is Open to the Public and is FREE with proceeds from food and beer to benefit Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, St. Vincent DePaul Society and Louisville Film Society Educational Arm.
Drink, Drink Bier–beers to be served will include a strong line-up of October Fests brews, and other special craft beers hand-selected by Louisville’s “godfather of beer” Roger Baylor himself. Food will be prepared and served by local favorites, O’Shea’s, Monkey Wrench and Café Lou Lou featuring: Dogs, Brats, Kraut, German Potato Salad and Big Soft Pretzels.
The “VOLKSFEST” will also feature a movie awards ceremony hosted by
48 Hours Film Project, which, will take place at dusk and will be followed by a dual screen showing of the German classic-”Das Boot” presented by Louisville Film Society. German entertainment will be from
2p-4p and then local bands will take the stage to keep the evening rockin…
August 14th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I know where I’ll be the 23rd. I hope there are potato pancakes. Nom nom nom.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:21 am
We attended the Volkfest Saturday evening and all I can say was it was a major let-down. The area was relatively small and it felt as though we were a bunch of teens being segregated from the general population at a church picnic. The beer was served in a cheesy plastic mug that was straight out on 1985. I have no doubt the beer itself was great (I love BBC) but we weren’t there long enough to justify the cost.
The band was decent and there were a few nice booths for local interest groups like 8664.
My biggest complaint was the food. It was a joke. The only ‘German’ offering we saw were brats. The other choices were pulled pork and a couple other non-German items (i swear i think one booth had chips and salsa). How can you have an Oktoberfest without basic German fare? I was skeptical beforehand when they chose O’Sheas to host an Oktoberfest, and unfortunately my suspicions were concerned. I cook German food at home all the time. It’s not that hard to produce. The organizers really dropped the ball on that front.
We stayed about 5 minutes and left. I will be very surprise if we hear about a ’second annual’ Volkfest next year.
August 28th, 2008 at 1:42 am
The Volkfest was hugely popular and my friends and I had a great time drinking really good beer. I’m sure there’ll be another one next year.