NEW ULM — Crazy Days features a number of new wrinkles this year including a kid’s dance party with a DJ.

Kyle Marti of Schell’s Brewery will provide electronic music from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday on Minnesota Street.

Other new events are scoops and snuggles with baby goats and ice cream at MN EIS ice cream shop. Playful goats will cuddle in your arms and pose for pictures from noon to 3 p.m.

“Lets get a little bit crazier. We’re cuckoo for New Ulm Crazy Days,” said New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Sarah Warmka.

Another new event is a street dance featuring old and new country music hits by the Tanner Stark Band, will be hosted by the B & L Bar from 8-11 p.m. on the mobile green space.

Warmka said picnic tables and spools will be available for people to sit on for the dance. She said people could bring lawn chairs if they prefer.

“We hope people will dance though,” she added.

Crazy days actually begins Friday morning with many downtown and other businesses displaying racks and boxes of sale items and promotions on sidewalks. Sales continue through Sunday.

A five-hour musical tribute to the late Alan (Smiley) Wiltscheck begins on mobile turf on Minnesota Street at 4:45 p.m. Friday.

The band schedule begins with Adam Munsterman, Dain Moldan and the Bier Garten Boys. Leon Olsen follows at 5:15 p.m., The Concord Singers 5:30 p.m., Josh and Tina 6 p.m., Nick Stadick 6:30 p.m., the Bockfest Boys 7 p.m., Carnie and the Best Band Ever 8 p.m. and the Nate Frederickson Band 8:30 p.m.

Friday night food trucks feature Lola’s, The Candy Shop (cotton candy), Sweet Kettle Madness (mini doughnuts) and Doggone Good Eats.

Saturday events start at 7 a.m. with morning power stretch yoga on the turf. Bring a mat or towel to use. In case of rain, the event moves to the New Ulm Wellness Collective, 15 Minnesota St. S.

No less than 1,000 ping pong balls will be dropped from the Rush Rooftop Restaurant, 126 Minnesota St. N. at 9 a.m. Saturday.

“That’s a couple hundred more ping pong balls than last year. Three balls have $100 discounts, two for $50 and 40 with $5 off. People can bring them to the Chamber booth outside of Chamber office open 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday,” said Warmka.

Local handcrafted vendors will be open from 9 a .m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on Minnesota Street, from 3rd North to 1st North.

The farmer’s market continues 9 a.m. to noon Saturday in the A to Zinnia parking lot.

The New Ulm City Hall parking lot hosts the Shop The Lot 3 for Gwen Mack with crafters and vendors, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.

Mack sells corn bags to raise money for New Ulm Medical Center Oncology Dept. lemon drops. Shop the Lot 3 will raise money to help Mack buy more supplies and to help her family offset medical costs.

Saturday Crazy Days food trucks downtown feature Lola’s, The Candy Shop, Gutes Essen/Ulm Sweet Ulm, Doggone Good Eats. The Reve Coffee Co. will be at the farmer’s market from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, visit https://business.newulm.com/events/details/crazy-days-2024-46682