Your Weekend Guide to New Braunfels

This weekend in New Braunfels, Texas brings 11 live events across the city — from music to comedy to theater. 10 events are free. Here's what's on.

New Braunfels is home to Gruene Hall, the oldest continually operating dance hall in Texas — an 1878 wooden room with no air conditioning, chicken wire over the stage windows, and a guest list that runs from a young George Strait to virtually every Texas country and Americana artist who matters. Whitewater Amphitheater on the Guadalupe River adds big outdoor shows to summer weekends, with tubers floating past during soundcheck. Wurstfest each November is one of the country's great German festivals — ten days of sausage, polka, and beer celebrating the town's heritage. Between the rivers, the dance halls, and Schlitterbahn, summer here is one long event.