Of course, Meixner, whose accordion playing will be featured in an upcoming Jack Black film, isn’t the only music happening on the five stages. He does have that punk energy but he’s also got the chops.” “His playing is unbelievable, equally comfortable on trumpet and bass as he is on accordion. “Alex is super entertaining, 110 miles per hour,” Treviño said. Record producer and studio owner Joe Treviño, who has recorded Meixner, was at the Baruntex concert on Fat Tuesday. Not to mention that by decree, he was named a “Prince of the City of Princes” by the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, too. There also will be a suite at the historic hotel named for the kooky musician whose latest recording is a DVD/CD package recorded live at at the Brauntex Theatre called “You Asked for It.” This year is also a very special year for the New Braunfels-Alex Meixner connection with the Faust Hotel and Brewery announcing that the first beer it will produce from its expanded brewery is the Alex Meixner Polka Pilsner. “And people in the audience should not be surprised if pepperoni comes flying from the stage.” “This time of year, where we just finished our Octoberfest tour, we’re doing the traditional lederhosen bit,” he said. He might as well own it in October and November. It’s not his typical look, though the TV spot (and a new one, “Pepperoni Polka,” being readied for internet release) cements that image. The self-described ham - earlier this year he was featured as a one-man band in a Hormel Foods commercial touting pepperoni, singing “My Pepperona” to the tune of The Knack’s “My Sharona” - will be a nonstop polka machine dressed in lederhosen for the next week. So, we’re always thinking about how the instruments work together and how they coalesce to get the sound we’re going for. “All of the guys play a variety of instruments. But so are moments when he’s playing accordion, touch bass and trumpet simultaneously while headbanging and dancing. Meixner’s so-called hose-a-phone - an improvised mountain horn fashioned from a long garden hose and a beer-bong funnel - is capable, in his hand’s and those of his band mates, to produce a most ethereal, hauntingly beautiful tone. Web: has music schedules, list of other community events and a discount coupon for Sunday-Wednesday admissionĮtc.: Melodrama, "Phantom of the Wurst," onstage in Circle Arts Theatre next door to the Wursthalle See More Collapse What: New Braunfels' annual 10-day salute to German sausage
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