Johann Strauss Jr. wasn’t called The Waltz King for nothing. The Austrian composer wrote more than 500 waltzes, polkas and other dance pieces during his lifetime. You can get a sampling of Strauss and ...

Is everybody happy.” Larry Olsen yelled out that more than once when he played his concertina with his brother Leon, who was also working his magic on the musical instrument well known in polka ...

After nearly two years of not being able to produce live in-person concerts due to the pandemic, the Warren Symphony Orchestra will make its triumphant return to the stage with “Come Dance with Us,” a ...

The Cheyenne Polka Club has helped keep the polka-waltz style of dancing alive for at least 22 years. Claude Pruter, now retired after 32 years in maintenance at F.E. Warren Air Force Base both in the ...

Not sure what a button box is? Don’t worry, we had some experts on the show to tell us just exactly what it is. A button box is a type of accordion with three or four rows of buttons on the right-hand ...

TWO RIVERS - The next Two Rivers Community Band concert will be at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 4. This concert, titled “Sunday Afternoon in the Park,” will feature a variety of polkas, waltzes and marches. It will ...

Three residents with connections to the Metrocom are using the Internet to keep traditional German-style music alive, as they aim to pass on to listeners the music they love. For the past six years, ...

John Stevens' Doubleshot returns to the Let's Polka stage with a fresh set of great tunes including some holiday classics! Performances from this central Pennsylvania band include the 'Snow Waltz' and ...

Approaching the entrance of the Chandelier Ballroom in the Heights, I began to hear the faint echoes of accordions and trumpets and a pang of dread surged in my spine. I was entering the world of ...

The New Direction Band takes the Let's Polka stage for a half hour of toe-tapping fun! Let's Polka welcomes The New Direction Band from Buffalo, New York for this half hour episode. The group ...

It wasn’t until I served as a judge last September at the 17th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival that I realized just how many folks share a Slovenian heritage here in Northeast Ohio. And many of the ...