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A live school assembly · Waterloo Region

OktoberfestParty

Kitchener throws the biggest Oktoberfest outside Munich — and most of your students have no idea why.

50 min
One assembly
Whole school
Kindergarten to Grade 8
Your gym
I bring sound & lights
$400
Flat, all in

Your city changed its name
during a war

Kitchener was called Berlin until 1916. The people who founded it brought their language, their food and their music with them — and the city still throws a party about it every October.

That's the show. Not a lecture about it — the actual music, played live, with your students on their feet for most of it. They leave knowing why the tents go up downtown every fall, and they leave having sung in German.

Live piano, accordion and trumpet. Two animated hosts — Onkel Hans and Tante Frieda — carry the story between numbers.
Oktoberfest Party school assembly poster: a live school assembly, 50 minutes, $400, with piano, accordion and trumpet.
The one-pager — send it to your staff

How the fifty minutes runs

The show is built as one arc. Each part sets up the next, so it plays in this order.

  1. 1

    Open on the accordion

    Full volume, lights up, everybody clapping on two and four before anyone has explained anything.

  2. 2

    Berlin becomes Kitchener

    Onkel Hans and Tante Frieda walk the students through how the city got its name, lost it, and kept the music either way.

  3. 3

    Everybody sings

    A German folk song taught line by line from the stage. No sheet music, no prep, no rehearsal needed from your staff.

  4. 4

    The folk dance

    Learned in the gym, in rows, in about four minutes. Teachers who join in are the best part of the show.

  5. 5

    The Chicken Dance — four times through

    Faster each time. The last pass is genuinely too fast. That's the point, and it's what they tell their parents about.

What it takes to host

I bring

  • Piano, accordion and trumpet
  • Full sound system, sized for a gym
  • Stage lighting
  • Every bit of the show — no staff prep, no rehearsal, no materials to print

You provide

  • The gym or multi-purpose room
  • Access to standard wall power
  • Somewhere for students to sit on the floor
  • A staff member who knows where the light switches are
$40050-minute show

Booking the Oktoberfest weeks

Morning, afternoon and evening slots are all available across the two Oktoberfest weeks in October. Send me a date that works and I'll hold it for you.

jamie@musicmahn.com (647) 853-2599