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Article: ALPINE WISCONSIN AT VOLKFEST IN NEW GLARUS, THE DAY WAS PERFECT FOR SOME QUALITY YODELING.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
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- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2005
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Byline: William R. Wineke Wisconsin State Journal
NEW GLARUS -- It doesn't get more Wisconsin than this.
Sunday afternoon several hundred people from around the Midwest sat on benches and in lawn chairs at Tell Shooter's Park just outside New Glarus, shaded by massive burr oaks, listening to Swiss musicians yodeling, playing alpine horns and cracking jokes too sappy to repeat here.
The annual New Glarus Volkfest, celebrating Switzerland's independence from Austria in 1291, is the kind of quiet, community celebration that so marks Wisconsin's summers.
Featured performers included Toni Blum Seitz, who received the loudest cheers of the day for her yodeling -- ...