Come bounce, leap and twirl along with our Dance Groups while you listen to Today's Concert below.
Dancing at Christmas has been a popular pastime for centuries and the bouncing, leaping, twirling, kicking and choreographed horseplay that goes along with dance troupes is an eternal crowd pleaser at Christkindl markets.
German dance troupes perform folk dances wearing traditional Tracht, or folk costume, such as Dirndls for women and Lederhosen for men.
The Transylvania Club is a Transylvania Saxon-German organization which immigrated to Canada to establish their new home in Canada. Founded in 1951, Musikprofessor Walter Scholtes and organizer John Werner established the Transylvania Band and in 1954 boasted a band membership of 50 people. In 1966 Steve Schatz Sr. reorganized the band and as the new musical director, formed a new band and incorporated the Hofbräu name which operated under the Transylvania Club with the goal to preserve the familiar music and sounds of the old country.
The Transylvania Dance Group consists of our youth ages 15 to 26. They perform traditional folk dances throughout the year in two different costumes: the traditional Transylvanian Tracht (folk costume) and German dirndl and lederhosen costume. They take part in multi-cultural events, Oktoberfest, raise money for charities and are very active in our daily club life.
The Concordia Enzian Schuhplattler Verein has been performing together as a group for over 30 years comprising of a wide age range and multi-generations. The repertoire consists of traditional folk dances including waltzes, polkas, cow bells, whips and, of course, schuplattlering – all accompanied by a live accordionist. The costumes and dances represent the Miesbach region of heritage.
The Schwaben Dancers are an energetic, Germanic folk dance group who love to entertain and electrify their audience. Their dances draw on their ancestral cultural origins from the Rhine region and blend them with the regional influences of the Danube River Basin. A plethora of artistic infusions from the Alps skirting the Carpathians across the northern Balkans to the Black Sea molded this distinctiveness.
The Alpine Dancers of the Alpine Club (Kitchener) have been performing German/Austrian folkdances and Schuhplattlers since 1979. They entertain throughout the year on television, at conventions, celebrations, weddings, Gottscheer Reunions in Canada and the USA, and Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest.
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The new Advent Calendar and Marketplace website is great. I’ve sent the link to my friends in the USA and Australia to watch too! See you next year!
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The photos, videos and concerts presented on this website are a chance for visitors to relive Christkindl Markets from 1997 through 2019. In 2020 we are online only.