Alex Meixner

After some colder weather in Wisconsin and Pittsburgh, the Alex Meixner Band polka bus is continuing east. We’re returning to the Villa Roma in Callicoon, NY at the heart of the Catskills for Tuesday, October 2 before opening Marty Magee’s Oktoberfest in DelCo of Philadelphia area on Thursday, October 4 and then it’s our traditional Friday night performance at the Reading Liederkranz Oktoberfest. We’re always geared up for that rocking gig.

From there we trek northward to the Rochester, NY area for our first appearance at the Fairport Oktoberfest on Saturday, October 6. This should be a really fun one- it’s a growing festival in an area we don’t get too often.

As the season is in it’s busiest, we head back on down to Asbury Park, NJ for the street Oktoberfest at the Asbury Festhalle & Biergarten on Sunday and Monday, October 7-8.

While all of the Oktoberfest gigs are rocking, the Hormel commercials are playing on tv again too– It’s so much fun meeting and hearing from y’all with the Pep it Up sightings!!
Thanks for enjoying the shows!!

After a fun week of gigs and a recording session in Ohio (see a clip of Ohio Recording Company video of Jump )- The Alex Meixner Band van is heading towards Wisconsin to return to the La Crosse Oktoberfest on Thursday and Friday. We welcome Brett Cline to the touring lineup for this week (as Jimmy had to take a week off for his daughter’s wedding in Pennsylvania). We’re performing on Thursday night at the Northside Fest Grounds Stage and again Friday from 11am – 2pm after the tapping of the Golden Keg.

From there we head east to Pittsburgh for the inaugural Pittsburgh Oktoberfest on Saturday and Sunday. It’s a great entertainment lineup that includes our friends Madel Jager and Die Lustigen Almdudler as well as STV Bavaria Das Glockenspiel from Cleveland. We’re really excited about this new festival and hope to see a lot of our friends from Western PA and Ohio for this event.

After we play our gig on Sunday, we’ll be cheering on the Steelers as they’ve hopefully regained their footing with the win on Monday night against the Buccaneers. (Those that know me know I’m not an intense football fan- but some of you might’ve heard about a little recording project I did this summer with a re-recording of the Pittsburgh Steelers Polka that is playing at Heinz Field this year!)