{"id":221650,"date":"2026-06-17T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221650\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:47:08","slug":"heritage-center-in-kutztown-hosts-2nd-annual-pa-german-day-june-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221650\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Center in Kutztown hosts 2nd annual PA German Day June 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center in Kutztown will host the second annual Pennsylvania German Day 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, June 27.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania German Day will showcase a sampler of Pennsylvania German music, humor and language that will honor the Pennsylvania legislature\u2019s declaration 50 years ago for the observance of Pennsylvania German Day in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place in the picturesque barnyard of the historic Sharadin Barn built and decorated in 1855 at the historic Sharadin Farmstead, 22 Luckenbill Road, Kutztown.<\/p>\n<p>The program will open at 10:30 a.m. with a performance with the internationally recognized Pennsylvania German music sensation, the Shooflies, an up-and-coming family band promoting the preservation and enjoyment of Pennsylvania Dutch music, language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:15 a.m. the Shooflies will perform a Pennsylvania Dutch-language sing-along with leading Pennsylvania Dutch language online educator and musician, Doug Madenford.<\/p>\n<p>At 1 p.m., a hilarious program of Pennsylvania Dutch-language jokes and translations will be offered by community language teachers David and Jean Adam. At 1:45 p.m., the program will continue with a performance of music and comedy by Madenford.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the program, readings in Pennsylvania Dutch language, including stories and poetry, will be presented as part of the continuation of Schreiwer Fescht, a writer\u2019s celebration originally founded as part of the Kutztown Folk Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Closing remarks will include \u201cFerwas mir kumme zamme\u201d (why we come together) as a tribute to the Pennsylvania House Bill No. 2294, Session 1976, PA Legislative Act 113, providing for the observance of Pennsylvania German Day, approved June 29, 1976.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free, fun and educational for the whole family. Food concessions will be served by the Kutztown Lions Club.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, follow PGCHC on Facebook and Instagram, visit the Heritage Center website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pagerman.org\/pa-german-day-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pagerman.org\/pa-german-day-2026\/<\/a> or call 610-683-1589.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania German Cultural Heritage Center in Kutztown will host the second annual Pennsylvania German Day 10 a.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,1681,6652,182,858,2568,17437,28,30,29,289,706],"class_list":["post-221650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-entertainment","tag-kutztown","tag-local-news","tag-ontap","tag-patriot-item","tag-patriot-item-lifestyle","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}