“A Stinking Good Time”
Entertainment Schedule
Garlic Buds Kids Tent
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
“Throwing Out the First Bulb” Opening Ceremony
Since the mid-60’s, Garlic Festival has kicked off the day with a bulb toss (like baseball’s “throwing out the 1st pitch”), and the Official Tasting of the Garlic Bloody Mary. All this will take place in front of the Garlic Building near big fake garlic bulb with the lipstick.
The Opening Ceremony is Sponsored by The Stinky News because no one else would put their name on it.
Music & Acts
Light of the Moon Band
Festival favorites, Light of the Moon Band, bring their own brand of unstoppable toe-tapping hyperfolk.
The Precocious Prancing Parader of the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade
(aka Mariénne Kreitlow)
Part poet, part priestess, part prankster and perennially peculiar. And has an album entitled “Garlic and Other Forces of Nature” with the top four songs ever written about garlic.
The Narren
The Narren of New Ulm is an entire village of elaborately masked characters – funny, quirky and just a bit scary – each with their own personality and story. An old German festival tradition (“narren” means fool), think of them as the relatives everyone has but no one wants to own.
Kayla the Bubbler
What happens when a professional juggler discovers bubbles? Kayla the Bubbler!
Flamenco Mateo
Flamenco Mateo is expanding of the art of Spanish Flamenco. Through music, dance, singing, percussion, Spanish guitars and the poetry of Flamenco, they entertain as well as inspire and educate. You’ll see them in an intimate and informal fashion, which captures Flamenco’s true spirit.
Preludes to a Blizzard
A musical collective with a plethora of diverse backgrounds of Twin City natives, The Preludes aim to bring life to many events through a variety of folk musics, pulling material primarily from American Dixieland, Jazz, Pop, and Blues, Latin American salsas and Bossa Novas, and Jewish Klezmer. The group philosophy is based on the fact when referring to music, “it’s called playing for a reason!”
See them on Facebook HERE.
Garlic Buds Kids Tent
All-day games, activities, interesting stuff and more for kids of all ages.
Create costume items to wear in the Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade.
The Peculiar Pragmatic Promenade
Begins at Precisely 1:37 P.M.
The Promenade proceeds at precisely 1:37 p.m. to perambulate the public party already in progress at the Festival.
YOU can be a part of the parade! Bring your costume, your act – can you juggle? Hula Hoop? Dance? Unicycle? – or just your peppy promenading self and join in! Meet at the twin silos at 1:20 p.m.
Fabulous prizes will be awarded in these categories:
~ Most Peculiar ~
~ Most Pragmatic ~
~ Best Promenader ~
Kite-Making & Flying
Example of a finished kite designed by a participant at the MN Garlic Festival.
Talk about wind power!
One of the most popular features on festival day finds kids of all ages building over 200 kites – all under the direction of MN Kite Society former president, Dave Herzig – and flying them together at the south end of the festival grounds.
$5.00 suggested donation
MN Garlic Festival is a educational and fundraising project of Sustainable Farming Association’s Crow River Chapter, and all proceeds go to furthering the mission of the organization.