Amazing! If you’re looking for a family friendly event, Two Ton Tuesdays at Gruene Hall! It’s fun, enjoyable and a great time! All ages are welcome. Also, if you’d like to do the swing dance lesson it’s $10 starting at 6:30pm, after you’ll be escorted out and pay $8 for the concert. They play from 8:30 to 10:30pm. If not, go to Gruene, it’s a nice town with great places to eat at! Two Tons is going on for 6 more weeks for summer.
Quintessential Texas! Came just for Seth James but this place always has Texas' best playing. This is what dancehalls is all about. True Texans and transients alike mingle her to marvel of her past and the part in her present - also a great place for a cold beer
First time visit here. I don’t drink alcohol beverages yet it’s nice to see one of the oldest structures in the area ?Very antiqueful environment!I heard that the dance hall so I bet you check the dates and come see what you’d like to see ?Cheers ?
Hot, but a good breeze coming through the windows behind us. We were befriended by a couple who were regulars, and they helped us get in line correctly, etc. He even got photos and video of our dancing. Enjoyed it, but we had seat cushions.... benches are hard. Get in line early. Bring cash.... it's all cash only!!!! Thankfully there are multiple ATM machines around... we were okay, but others were rushing to get cash! Two Tons was a great experience for me live, having never experienced them that way. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Ate at the Gristmill before the dance and show. I love Gruene, and might be tempted to stay there if I could get an opening somewhere next time. We stayed a short distance away in New Braunfels.
A great place to explore Texas music / country music history. The live bands are great. Beer is around $5 each. This is the oldest dance hall in Texas. There is no air conditioning. Bathrooms are inside. No smoking. Cash only! We love this place! Definitely add it to your Texas bucket list. It's an experience you don't want to miss!
Even if you aren't there to dance or see a concert, you must stop in. This place is so historical and just awesome to see. Just walking through gives you the vib. Check it out! Missed Willie by a week. Darn.
A truly historic venue with great music daily. Plenty of indoor and outdoor space to socialize and have a few drinks. A must see when in the Historic Greune area. CASH ONLY VENUE
Wow, what an awesome establishment. Billed as the oldest Dancehall in Texas. I believe it looking at the floors and rest of the decor. It is a place where I would definitely be willing to hang out for an evening, listen to live music and enjoy good live music with friends.
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LIVE MUSIC EVERY DAY!Gruene Hall, built in 1878, is Texas’ oldest continually operating and most famous dance hall. By design, not much has physically changed since the Hall was first built. The 6,000 square foot dance hall with a high pitched tin roof still has the original layout with side flaps for open air dancing, a bar in the front, a small lighted stage in the back and a huge outdoor garden.Through the years, big winners have always been Gruene Hall’s patrons. A person watching a show never knows if the artist they see at the Hall today will be a star tomorrow, but they can know that the music they hear will always be top notch.Gruene, Texas, (originally known as Goodwin) was settled in the mid-nineteenth century by German farming families. As the head of one of these families, Ernst Gruene moved with his wife and two sons to the area northeast of New Braunfels in 1872. The second of his two sons, Henry (Heinrich) D. Gruene, firmly established the family's presence in the area by acquiring enough cotton-producing land to support between twenty and thirty tenant-farm families. In 1878 he built the dance hall known today as Gruene Hall. Before his death in 1920 he built the town's first mercantile store, cotton gin, lumberyard, and bank. He also provided land for a school and served for a time as postmaster.Henry Gruene's Dance Hall provided area residents a place for socializing and offered hard-working farm families a diversion from their difficult lives. A sign hanging over the bar proclaimed "Den feinsten Schnaps, das beste Bier, bekommt man bei dem Heinrich hier" ("The best liquor, the best beer, you get at Henry's here"). In addition to serving both "the best beer" and "dime-a-shot whiskey," and providing a venue for polka bands and square dancing, the hall often was used by traveling salesmen for displaying their wares. Gruene Hall also became a popular location for Saengerfests (German singing festivals), high school graduation ceremonies, political elections, and both dog and badger fights. During Prohibition, Henry Gruene hung a sign in the bar that read, "Only Near Beer is Sold Here. Real Beer is Sold Near Here."In the early part of the twentieth century, weekend dances usually began early on Saturday evenings. Typically, there would be a break at midnight for sandwiches and coffee, followed by more dancing until 5 A.M. The late Oscar Haas, a long-time resident of New Braunfels, remembered "those wonderful all-night dances at Gruene Hall—the long bar and the beer—the midnight supper—the children sleeping in the side room, as the parents danced until 5 A.M….the polkas, schottisches, waltzes, and the happiest of all, the ring-arounds."Despite such joyous occasions, the residents of Gruene faced difficult times as well. In 1925 a boll weevil infestation devastated area crops. The Great Depression and the attendant decline in cotton prices nearly wiped out what was left of the town, though Gruene Hall continued to stay open.In the early 1970s developers planned to raze the town in order to build new homes. While visiting the dormant community in 1974, Cheryle Fuller began her own efforts to save the town through devising a development plan and conducting a historical survey. In 1975 Gruene was added to the National Register of Historic Places.Guuene Hall attracts performers that have made it a musical landmark, as well as a destination for hundreds of music fans. George Strait, for example, played regularly at Gruene Hall in the 1970s and 1980s. Others who have performed there over the years include Kris Kristofferson, Lyle Lovett, Tish Hinojosa, Robert Earl Keen, Jr., Jerry Jeff Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Walser, Chris Isaac, the Austin Lounge Lizards, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Jimmy LaFave, Kelly Willis, Slaid Cleaves, and Charlie Robison.Gruene Hall offers live music seven nights a week, as well as Saturday and Sunday afternoons.What a GREAT Texas tradition!