Walt Groller’s parents gave him his first accordion when he was 4 years old. There was one problem, though. The boy played it so much that his mother became tired of hearing it and threw it down the ...
TWO RIVERS – The Two Rivers Community Band will host a concert titled Polka in the Park July 31. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. in Central Park, featuring "The Star-Spangled Banner." Attendees can ...
Intermittent rain may have kept attendance down at Musikfest’s East Coast Polka Championship and Chicken Dance Dance-Off on Saturday, but there was no stopping the enthusiasm of audience or the ...
It's that month again: June. Moon. Spoon. Chicken dance. "We're doing the chicken dance like you wouldn't believe," says Jim Schwobel, tuba player with the New Austin Polka Band, which is called upon ...
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 popular ...
Stanley Mills, part of the prosperous Mills Music family publishing dynasty who popularized “The Chicken Dance” as a wedding and party staple, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y. He was ...
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