Pat Barrera hadn’t been out to see her favorite music in a while. But when she sat at a table on a recent Sunday to watch the 55th Annual Chicago Festival of Polka Bands in Orland Park, the bands ...

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song" ; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Program notes include words of the songs, and bibliographical and ...

DICKINSON (WBNG) -- Community members came out in full force to enjoy another year of “Polka Fest” at Otsiningo Park. The festival featured a live performance by Grammy Award-Winner Jimmy Sturr & His ...

Radio host Val Pawlowski is inviting visitors to “come for lunch, stay for dinner and enjoy the music” at her 2024 Memorial Day Polka Dance in Kirtland. The annual dance will take place on May 27, ...

You can clap your hands and stomp your feet all you want, but it’s appearing that polka music can indeed be beat. Witness the impending fate of the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame. After nearly a quarter ...

One-two. one-two. Senior dancers lined up in white shirts and black pants, swaying to classic polka music at Pioneer Hall at the Iowa State Fair. The first song, "Harvest Time Schottische," instantly ...

Chris Bogdon was in first grade in his native Carnegie when he started taking accordion lessons. Steve Novosel, while growing up in Murrysville, took up the instrument at 9 years old. Both were raised ...

He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg were thrilled when they were invited to a chamber music retreat in rural upstate New York during the early months of the pandemic. It was an ...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — This Saturday, the Genetti's ballroom will be packed with polka dancers and players, hosted by the Pennsylvania Polkafest with a long lineup of local and national talent. It's a ...