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 ...
Part steamy small-town jamboree, part honest-to-God Czech cultural celebration, the National Polka Festival in Ennis is one of your best chances all year to escape the mess of the city and remind ...
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 ...
This week, a huge division of opinion nearly cleaved your Belleville News-Democrat newsroom into two nearly equal pieces. No, not Trump or Clinton. Not ketchup or mayo on fries. And not the ...
The unmistakable rhythm of a polka drifted from the Walcott Coliseum on Sunday afternoon, where dozens of couples hit the floor during the monthly dance of the Eastern Chapter of the Polka Club of ...
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