With 75 recording credit and a Grammy nomination to his identify, prolific polka artist and accordion maestro Alex Meixner blends music and storytelling to exalt his craft.
San Antonio’s Musical Bridges Across the World will current a present by Meixner — a beloved staple at New Braunfels’ annual Wurstfest celebration — at Collins Backyard Library this Wednesday meant to supply a musical overview of German music and tradition.
For individuals in San Antonio and the Hill Nation, these sounds nonetheless resonate. Outdated-school Texans are extraordinarily happy with their German heritage, be they early Protestant exiles or post-Reich influxes. In San Antonio and the Hill Nation alike, these roots are nonetheless tangible in our structure, dialects and delicacies, which is a mix of German, Canary Islander and Mestizo cultures.
The San Antonio Public Library, in partnership with MBAW, will carry it collectively by this partaking and tuneful examination.
Free, 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, June 24, Collins Backyard Library, 200 N. Park Drive, (210) 207-9120, musicalbridges.org.
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