Wurstplex Winter Jam 6!

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6th year, new name! Our primary beneficiary this year is Soldier Songs and Voices, plus Pink Warrior Angels and Callen Hughs Foundation as well!

Facebook events:
Friday, January 19, 2018 7pm
Saturday, January 20, 2018 NOON

Noon to midnight, LIVE MUSIC all day long! BEST BURGERS IN NEW BRAUNFELS from Freiheit Country Store, and pray our weather turns out as good as the past 5 years!

Full band performances by:
Jesse Stratton Band, The Lawless, Alli Mattice Band & Two Way Street

Two song swaps from Soldier Songs and Voices students

Acoustic performances by:
Dustin Welch, HALLEYANNA & Mark Jungers, Ryan Ross, Joe “The Jester” Congdon, Kori Free, Nate Rodriguez, Tony Taylor, Hannah Swan, Elisa Maria, Brittney Nemec, Austin Gilliam, Joel Hofmann, Dennis Jay, Larry Martin Sweeney, Anna McCormick and Paul Eldridge

AND a special Friday night pre party with Jason Allen & Gabe Garcia Full Band Duo plus BJ Thibodeaux & Backwater Blvd!

Special thanks to our sponsors Kora Kora Coffee, Comaltex Insurance Agency Inc, CalTex Protective Coatings, Freddy's Pawn & Jewelry, Popbelly's Popcorn, Bonzai Steak & Sushi, Gregersen Family Chiropractic, Naturally Cafe, The Purple Chair and as always produced by Music of New Braunfels and TX Citizen!

The name change:

FYI we used to be named Blowin' Off Steamboat Music Festival, but because that was a name chosen off the cuff 6 years ago at the VERY last minute when we planned the first year, we decided we finally needed our own identity! I don't know if anybody used the word "Wurstplex" prior to me creating the Music of New Braunfels website and adding it into the text in the site header, but the TX Citizen has also adopted it for their "Best of the Wurstplex" awards they started in 2017.

The Historic Phoenix Saloon!

This photo of New Braunfels Ghost Tours is courtesy of TripAdvisor

Nearly two years ago, Ross and Debbie Fortune, owners of the Phoenix Saloon, applied to the Texas Historical Commission. On Tuesday, March 22, a ceremony was held to dedicate the newly installed historical marker! Read this great story on the history of this cool building below as posted by Myra Lee Adams Goff of The Sophienburg back in 2014. Congrats Ross and Debbie, this is a great honor for a great music venue, restaurant and bar!

Another downtown building, the Phoenix Saloon owners Ross and Debbie Fortune, are applying for a Texas Historical Marker. The Phoenix Saloon history really does live up to the story of the Phoenix, a legendary bird that builds its own funeral pyre, throws itself into the fire, lays an egg in the ashes and hatches a new Phoenix bird. This legend has been used often as a metaphor for rebirth or resurrection. The metaphor fits the local Phoenix Saloon.

The property at the corner of east Castell and west San Antonio Sts., according to the late Roberta Mueller, was owned by Valentine Sippel, her great grandfather. Valentine married Anna Ossman and they had three children: Kaytrina, who was crippled, Henry, who was killed in the Civil War, and finally son John, who lived to be 50 years old by his own choice, when he committed suicide.

John Sippel married into the successful Gruene family by marrying Johanna Gruene. After six children, the marriage ended in a bitter divorce, according to family members. Sippel had built the Phoenix Saloon in 1871 and moved...

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