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Next on the schedule for the band was a trip to New Braunfels to play at Krause\u2019s Caf\u00e9. Randy, Wolf, Kerry and Glen had a great time playing happy music and catching up with old friends we hadn\u2019t seen in many months. We all had such a great time together they asked the band to come back one more time before summer was over, so we\u2019ll be there again August 4th<\/sup>. If you\u2019re in the area, come on out and see us and enjoy some of that great Krause\u2019s food and New Braunfels hospitality!<\/p> My big project for the band this summer has been the rebuilding of the Auf Geht\u2019s website. I am proud to say that I recently moved our site over to Houston-based service provider HostGator. \u201cBrand-X\u201d had gotten too expensive and problematic, so I took the plunge and moved everything over. (I have three business websites that needed this). Unfortunately, the software I had used to build the old Auf Geht\u2019s site was proprietary, and nothing I did would transfer over to the new home. That meant I would need to start all over again from the very beginning and learn new software at the same time. It\u2019s been a learning experience, to say the least! But I have also enjoyed the project! I hope you like the new look!<\/p> Some other news that many of our Auf Geht\u2019s friends may not be aware of is that I have been playing accordion now for a couple of years and have been performing solo at Rudi Lechner\u2019s German Restaurant since last November. When the pandemic shut everything down back in 2020 the restaurant had to close its doors to public dining (and happy music!), so Wolf and I went several months without playing there. When Rudi\u2019s opened back up, it was for reduced hours and limited seating. After a few months of this I approached manager Angeli and asked about having music again. She graciously invited me and our friend Ed Karisch to take turns playing to see how things went. The reduced hours and using single musicians instead of duos have saved the restaurant money and have kept the happy music going! Things are picking up now, and business hours have begun to expand back to where they were before the shut-down. Woo-hoo!!<\/p> Some of you may still be scratching your heads, though, at the thought of Randy playing accordion. Me too! I have always wanted to play, and the 2020 shutdown was a perfect time for me to put the accordion project into high gear. And I\u2019m having a ball! Some people think I\u2019m getting better too! I play and sing at Rudi\u2019s with my accordion and break things up occasionally with the guitar and alphorn. For my trumpet and saw songs, I have put together some backup tracks to play along with. It\u2019s a ton of fun, and I love the variety! Many thanks to Angeli and Jay at Rudi\u2019s and my dear friends Wim and Bethel for their patience while I got more comfortable performing with accordion! Thanks also to Wim and Bethel for the great requests for songs to learn! And thanks to Valina and Tomball German Fest for allowing me to debut my solo act in the Community Center there in June!<\/p> Looking ahead to the Fall and Oktoberfest season, things are really shaping up to be a fun and busy time for the band! We are so excited to return to so many of our old favorite festivals \u2013 Addison, McKinney, Ft. Worth, Robert\u2019s Cove, Granbury, Celina, Galveston Island Brewers, Oktoberfest Houston, Round Top \u201cOktoBierFest\u201d, Wurstfest, and the Tomball Christmas Market. Dates and links to all these great events are provided on our \u201cSchedule\u201d page here at AufGehtsMusik.com along with the Rudi Lechner\u2019s Restaurant calendar. Check it out! We\u2019d love to see you!<\/p> There you have it! Our first blog post! It looks more like a long-overdue letter \u2013 and maybe that\u2019s what it really is! \u2013 but I had lots of exciting things I wanted to share. Most future posts will be much more reasonable in length. Drop me a line if there\u2019s something in particular you\u2019d like to hear about!<\/p> Have a great summer, and I hope to see you out at Rudi\u2019s or at some of the Oktoberfest venues this fall!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to the new Auf Geht\u2019s \u201cWie Geht\u2019s\u201d Blog! (I thought that sounded better than calling it \u201cRandy\u2019s Ramblin\u2019s\u201d but that\u2019s really what it is). I\u2019ll use this to provide updates on what we\u2019re up to, what\u2019s coming up, and occasionally just to ramble on aimlessly about stuff I feel like talking about. I think …<\/p>\n