Brass Band

This weekend turned out to be gray and lazy so I didn’t do any traveling.  I did talk to one of my coworkers (Diana) and she said if I wasn’t doing anything to go to downtown Bietigheim-Bissingen and that they were having a 90^th year celebration of the brass band and that she was in it.  She told me roughly where it was going to be. The building was interesting; it looked to me like an old barn with the rounded doors and big wooden beams inside.

 Well I didn’t plan on going to it but during my 2^nd hour long walk of the day I happened to run across where it was at but everyone was all dressed up in suits and ties.  I wasn’t going to go until I was spotted by Diana.  She came outside and said that it was no problem for me to be dressed in jeans and a sweatshirt  and I figured it would be good to get culture in lieu of watching tv that I can’t understand. 

So I went in and they played a few songs then they gave some speeches and presentations (all in German of course)  but I could follow along that they were going through the history of the band and where they had been.  They actually have performed in New York in a parade and in Toronto to name a few of the places that I could recognize.  After that they played a few more songs and then they had an elementary band come in and play a few songs.  They were pretty good to if you ignored a few of the squeaks and out of tune notes. Then the fun began for me.  The music quite and the food and drinks came out.  They had a lot of pastries and everything to drink from champagne, beer, wine, juice, and pop.  Actually there was another person from Durr there so I talked to him, his friend, and Diana who shared there stories about going to Florida and California.  This whole thing lasted about 2 ½ hours.  So I had a good evening out that started out as just a stroll through the town.