Join us in New Ulm for Crazy Days 2025, happening from Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27. This annual event transforms the downtown area into a vibrant marketplace, featuring sidewalk sales with exclusive discounts and promotions from local businesses. Participating retailers throughout the city will offer special deals, making it the perfect time to shop for everything from clothing and home decor to unique gifts and treats.?
Artistic Partner Abel Selaocoe returns to lead an ethereal
musical kaleidoscope of minimalism, spirituality and transformation. Taking its
name from Edmund Finnis’ The Centre is Everywhere for twelve string
players — which itself is a reference to an anonymous, medieval definition of
God as ‘an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference
is nowhere’ — this program is an exploration of music as texture, pattern and movement
across time. From contemporary soundscapes to raw, emotional improvisation, the
Browse the Community Garage Sale, then enjoy sandwiches served up to benefit the Longville Firemen, available till they're gone, and pie, whole or by the slice, sold by the Longville Chamber of Commerce.
Also Arts/Crafts/Music Outdoor Show at the Historical Building, sponsored by the Longville Lakes Arts Alliance.
Old-fashioned town lighting celebration with bonfire, horse-drawn wagon rides, hot chocolate and hotdogs, Christmas carols, and the official lighting of the Christmas tree. Santa stops by to visit with the children. And it's all free!
3-4:30 pm -- Free photos with Santa sponsored by Longville Area Women of Today at Patricks.
4-6 pm -- Official Lighting of the Christmas Tree on Main Street with snacks and Christmas carols sponsored by the Longville Chamber of Commerce
Get ready to shop ’til you drop during Fairmont’s Citywide Garage Sale! Explore garage sales all across town and score great deals on everything from home goods and clothing to antiques and hidden treasures.
Feel the spirit of the season float through the air with gleaming winter magic.
Here Comes Christmas In Wadena Light Show!
Start planning for a marvelous gathering with family and friends. Held nightly at 414 3rd St. SW, Wadena, MN, Christmas In Wadena's Very Merry Christmas Party offers cheer and enchantment for all.
Delight in the lights shimmering across the snow-covered display! And hum along with the holiday music that fills the air. It's time for wishes to come true!
Mark your calendars for a week of holiday fun at the Steele County Historical Society.
Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegía
Andina (Andean Elegy) was her first written composition to
explore having a multicultural upbringing. Dedicated to her older brother,
their upbringing was filled with Chinese stir-fry, Andean nursery songs and
frequent visits from their Jewish cousins from New York. Pastorale d'éte
by the French composer Alfred Honegger is a short symphonic poem inspired by
his vacation to the Swiss Alps in 1920. Béla Bartók’s Romanian Folk
Dances is based on seven Romanian tunes from Transylvania. Closing
A richly expressive journey led by Artistic Partner Tabea
Zimmermann — intimate, radiant, and full of spirit, featuring an emotional
viola concerto by Sally Beamish.
Grande dames Grace Dunbar and Catherine Green prepare for the Nacirema Society’s 1964 centennial cotillion — the event of the season in Montgomery, Alabama. The elegant African American debutantes include Grace’s granddaughter Gracie, escorted by Catherine’s grandson Bobby, and the two grandmothers hope the young couple will soon be engaged. But Gracie and Bobby have other ideas. As the young ladies prepare for their debuts, a blackmail scheme brews behind the scenes and subterfuges unfold, all under the nose of a skeptical reporter covering the ball.
