The Bierfass Band is a group of Dorset musicians playing a unique mix of polkas, waltzes, drinking tunes, combined with British pop and other well known songs. The result is a foot stomping, thigh slapping , singing and dancing oompah experience!

Dressed in traditional costumes the ten piece band consists of trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, sousaphone, horn and percussion. Audience participation plays a major part in the band’s performances with music performed on a blacksmith’s anvil and an alpine horn. At appropriate events the band recreates an old German wedding custom, the tradition of cutting a log. Sawing through the log represents the first obstacle that the couple must overcome in their marriage. The band plays whilst a couple chosen from the audience saw through the log in time to the music.