Today, Joe Jr. and his son Mike are both part of the house band at Hofbrauhaus in Pittsburgh’s South Side, playing old and new polka music for crowds of all ages with several groups housed at ...

The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived with polkas ringing in their ears. The polka, a lively couples dance in 2/4 time, had developed from folk roots and became a European ...

“They came over listening to the propeller shaft. This is the music of the old country.” Polka came to America with Polish ...

producing local varieties like the Polish polka-mazurka danced to music in 3/4 time. By the second half of the 19th century, the Old Continent was experiencing a real polka craze. People danced it in ...

Alpine music — and more specifically Polka and Oberkrainer — are considered ancient German. But what many people don't know is that the origin is not in the Bavarian or Swiss Alps but in Slovenia.

Mollie Busta, popular performer from the Jim Busta Band and Squeezebox, is host of the weekly RFD-TV Polka show, the "Mollie B Polka Party". The one-hour program features the nation's top polka ...

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning Valley’s polka king is ready to hang up his accordion at 88 years old. Del Sinchak ... “‘I’ve had a band for 74 years now, and I’m at the age where I just ...

Cheese curds, supper clubs, booyah, PBR, frozen custard, brats and ice fishing all get a shout-out in the new "Green Bay Baby ...

He was so busy working on the guitar that he missed the support band. But he finished in time to witness an iconic rock ...

Willie didn’t like picking cotton so, to help earn money, he began playing at dance halls and honky tonks with local German and Czech polka bands ... fifteen years old. And I got up to sing ...

19, Old Town Auburn, 1583 Lincoln Way Auburn. This festive street fair will include live polka music by the Alpenmeisters, ...

One of Canada’s oldest continuously operating community concert bands is preparing for its fall concert. The Nanaimo Concert ...