Ales by The Rails – Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest

October 3rd

Celebrate Oktoberfest with us. Beer, Buds, Brats, and Music!

Featuring our signature Oktoberfest flat bread pizza and Oktoberfest beer.

Live Music:

The Medicine Bell 1-4pm

The Medicine Bell is farm fresh Northern Michigan acoustic music at its finest. There’s a quiet valley full of real folks settled in around the village of Rapid City — where life is easy, but a livin’ is hard. Rooted deep there in the Valley are songwriting partners Bree Saunders & Ashley Christopher, who sing together like two kids who’ve been playin’ in the same sandbox since before they could remember. With Bree on guitar, Ash has chosen to travel this old dusty road with banjo in hand, and together they ride with The Bell’s three well-versed instrumentalists. Bio-Synchronous Cloud Commander Matty Z conjures grassy jam jazz on mandolin, backed by the cleanly stated upright bass of North Country hermit-mystic Dr. Dale Owen, and the Workingman’s Drums of MacKenzie Vance. It’s a new blend of traditional and Americana influences that meanders from the hallowed sounds of olden times to the pointed verse of contemporary folk heroes, from the intimacy of the lone songwriter to the echoes of the Long Strange Trip. Sometimes like a warm breeze on a summer night, sometimes like a rumblin’ ride down to the swimmin’ hole in the back of the truck, sometimes like a big swallow from a moonshine jar, there’s an organic balance of original songs, old favorites, & fresh cover choices to capture the imagination and proclaim what The Medicine Bell is about.

Bigfoot Buffalo 7-10pm

Bigfoot Buffalo is a Grand Rapids, Michigan band with refreshing yet “familiar” sounding songs and live performances that are full of energy, passion, and dynamic excitement. The band fuse their musical roots of Folk, Americana, Jam, Funk, Bluegrass, Blues, Rock, World Music, and Country to form a truly unique sound. The primary members consist of Kyle Brown on guitar and vocals, Sean Stynes on guitar//viola/vocals, Eric Engblade on Bass and vocals, Charlie Merkel on drums, and Michael Prokopchuck on violin. They are sometimes joined by Evan Breithart on Mandolin, and Ian Thompson on upright Bass. Their repertoire ranges from upbeat jamgrass inspired tunes to melancholy ballads from re-invented covers to dynamic blues rock escapades. The members of Bigfoot Buffalo have played with many West Michigan groups (past and present) including Nicholas James & The Bandwagon, The Waxies, Cabildo, Into The West, Goat Machine, and The Northern Skies. Their debut LP was released on August 6th 2015.