Raise your hops-laden beverage high and toast another year of beer, food, games and the German way of celebrating. The 33rd annual Tulsa Oktoberfest German festival will be at Tulsa’s River West Festival Park Oct. 20-23. Carnival rides and arts and crafts merchants as well as food merchants set up camp on the grounds along the Arkansas River and base a weekend of specially-scheduled activities that include the Running of the Wieners (dachshund races), pretzel toss, stein race and the crucial bier barrel race. How do you think festival volunteers keep the beer flowing? Great local and regional music acts are booked to play throughout the weekend under the big tents that also shelter the beer and wine gardens. You don’t get the real experience of this very popular German festival unless you take up arms and boogie down to the Chicken Dance polka. On the shy side? You won’t be for long. www.tulsaoktoberfest.org
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