Festival to Unveil Wide Array of New Events Including Alternative Victorian “Steampunk” Bazaar, Circus, Street Ball Galveston ’s Dickens on The Strand, an annual holiday street festival filled with costumes, music, food and wares based on 19th-century Victorian London, is set for this weekend, Saturday, December 4 and Sunday, December 5 in Galveston’s restored historic [...]
Lone Star Legend Jerry Jeff Walker continues the tradition and kicks off the New Year at Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House. Walker returns for a night of heart-tugging ballads, toe-tapping melodies, and plenty of down-home fun on Saturday, January 1st at 8pm. Get your New Year off to a great start with such favorites as [...]
Mike Dean, president of Yaga’s Entertainment, Inc, a Galveston based events company, will crown the Galveston Island chili champion for 2011. Dean in making the announcement stated, “the 2010 Chili Quest and Beer Fest drew in 3,000 visitors to downtown Galveston, we anticipate the 2011 event to be much larger with the addition of a [...]
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Be it decreed that all lords, ladies and children shall come and celebrate the 37th Annual Dickens on The Strand, a holiday festival, where bobbies, Beefeaters and the Queen herself will be on hand to recreate the Victorian London of Charles Dickens. Characters from Dickens novels walk the street. Food and [...]
when Thursday, November 25, 2010, 6 – 10pm where Moody Gardens, 1 Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX price $5.95 contact (800)582-4673 Festive sights and sounds will once again fill the air at Moody Gardens during the Festival of Lights November 13th through January 1st. As the Gulf Coast’s largest holiday lighting event, receiving more than 85,00 [...]
2nd Annual Yaga’s Chili Quest & Beer Fest January 15, 2011 Saengerfest Park 23rd and Strand Galveston Texas What sounds more warming than a good bowl of chili? Visitors of the 2nd Annual Yaga’s Chili Quest and Beer Fest will be able to sample chili from teams vying to be awarded the best chili on [...]
Island Octoberfest set for October 22-23 Historic downtown Galveston will come alive when the 29th annual Island Oktoberfestkicks off Friday evening, October 22 from 5-11 pm. This fun, family weekend of great music, authentic German food, libations, auction, raffle, games, and much more will continue with new extended hours on Saturday, October 23, from 11 am – [...]