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Begins at 11 am and lasts about 45 minutes. It is the festive opening of
the Oktoberfest and counts about 1,000 participants with the landlords'
families in decorated carriages, the ornate horse-drawn wagons of the
Munich breweries, waitresses on decorated floats and all the beer tent
bands.
Route of entry: Sonnenstraße-Schwanthalerstraße to the
Oktoberfest grounds.
The unique experience under the decorated dome of the Circus Crone
building. About 600 selected performers from the Trachtenzug, or Costume
Parade play music, dance, sing or display examples of their typical
customs. The wide variety of beautiful festive costumes and attractive
performances characterize this traditional folklore evening. Organized in
cooperation with the Sddeutsche Zeitung. The show lasts about 2 1/2
hours. Mitwirkende, Dauer ca. 2 1/2 Stunden.
Venue: Circus Krone building, Marsstraße 43
Begins at 10 am and lasts about 2 hours. World-famous festive climax on
the first Sunday of the Oktoberfest. The Costume und Riflemen's Parade
impressively reflects the interesting diversity of customs rooted in the
heartland of Bavaria, in Franconia, Swabia, the German 'Lä nder' or
Federal States, and neighboring European countries. A varied succession of
regional costume groups, historical uniforms, marching bands, riflemen,
thoroughbred horses, oxen, cows, goats, decorated wagons of the Munich
breweries, floats displaying typical local traditions and historical
coaches pass by in a 7-kilometer-long procession through the streets of
the city centre. Many ribboned trees, harvest crowns, old craftsmen's
tools and harvest produce, dancing arcs decorated with flowers, stars and
crowns, trumpeters on horseback, flag-throwers and much more turn this
Munich display of local customs into a brilliant highlight on the first
Oktoberfest Sunday. About 7,000 performers.
Route of the parade: from the Maximilianstraße through the streets of
the city center to the Oktoberfest grounds.
Sunday, September 24th, 1995
A big band open-air concert of all Oktoberfest bands with some 400 musicians takes place on the second Sunday of the festival.
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