Beer, Music bring fun to Second Oktoberfest

Oct 03, 2016

The Germany-Ugandan fiesta celebrates the beer culture of the two countries. And who drinks without eating? So the food stalls were also havens of activity with people devouring on mostly German cuisines.

It drizzled at midday—just when the gates had just opened to start the event— and the venue was barely occupied. Thereafter still, the weather at Uganda Museum gardens remained chilly with threatening features of a downpour in making but, to revellers, that couldn't serve as valid reason to miss the second edition of the annual outdoor Oktoberfest Kampala on Saturday.

For starters, the event, organised by Kampala Food Network, is all about beer and all the festivities that comes with it. And like in Germany where it originated plus over 70 countries worldwide that celebrate it, Uganda was no different. You know 'Kampalans' with having fun! Barely three hours into the event, as people continued to saunter in to fill the venue, merrymaking had its way to people's mind. Fun activities like beer drinking competitions, arm wrestling kept folks engaged as their ears were fed to deejay-mixed music.

The Germany-Ugandan fiesta celebrates the beer culture of the two countries. And who drinks without eating? So the food stalls were also havens of activity with people devouring on mostly German cuisines.

Steve Keys and Myco Ouma hit stage at half past 4pm to kick-start the music performances. The boys treated us to a one-and-half act of covers of latest local and international hits, as folks sung along on the most familiar songs like I Know who I am and Maddox's Namagembe.

Keko would later chipped in. Not as one of the day's performing singers but rather a DJ. She tried to pull it off before the main performers—the Bavarian Lions from Germany—took to the stage. Their performance served as the climax as their upbeat rock music ignited effervescent dance strokes by both Germans and Ugandan folks.

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