New Glarus Swiss Festivals Collection, 1986-2000

Container Title
Subseries: Volksfest
Note: See also video #801 listed above with the Miscellaneous materials.
Box   2
Video   #831
Volksfest: last four performances, 1986 August 3
Scope and Content Note: Only 10 minutes.
Box   2
Video   #850
Volksfest, 1986 August 3
Scope and Content Note: The first 11 of the 15 musical performances in the program: New Glarus Band, Maennerchor, Swiss dancers, alphorns, yodeling, Monroe Swiss Singers, Polka band, Maypole dance, and German-American women folk singers from Milwaukee.
Box   2
Video   #851
Volksfest, 1986 August 3
Scope and Content Note: Same footage of Volksfest's performances 6 through 11 as on video #850, only from a more left-of-stage angle.
Box   2
Video   #852
Volksfest plus Tours of Hall of History and Swiss Historical Village, 1986 August 3
Scope and Content Note: Paul Grossenbacher's Hall of History tour (same as video #849 but from a different camera angle and more zoom views of exhibits). Interview with local historian Margaret Duerst (also found on audiocassette 7). Tour of Swiss Historical Village (log cabin, replica log church and cemetery, cheese factory, two one-room school houses, blacksmith shop, and fire station). Footage of Volksfest performances one through six (same as video #850).