The 20th annual National Button Accordion Festival gets underway at 5 p.m. tonight at the Apollo Maennerchor German Club in ...

Alex Meixner is a Grammy-nominated musician and advocate...for polka music. Though he plays multiple instruments, including trumpet and drums, he's best known as an accomplished accordion player. He ...

The 59th annual Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, presented by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, will take place Nov. 24 and 25 and will again feature a festival of music and dancing. The ...

FRANKFORD — What is polka music? Ask musician Ed Goldberg and the answer is simple. “It’s happy music,” the accordion player said. “People, as soon as they enter into a building and they hear a polka ...

The Thanksgiving Polka Weekend will celebrate its 60th anniversary Nov. 29-30 at the Holiday Inn Cleveland South. Led by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, attendees can enjoy the finest ...

JACKSON, MI – In heaven there is no beer, but we expect in Jackson there will always be polka bands. Maybe we are wrong. Polkas come to mind because the late Edward Dzikowicz, a Jackson musician known ...

Polka may be a musical punchline to a lot of people, but it’s no joke to others. That’s why no one was laughing when the Recording Academy announced last week that it was eliminating the Best Polka ...

WILKES-BARRE — Promoter Jim Della Croce this week said polka music is alive and doing well in Pennsylvania. “And Pennsylvania Polka is one of our strongest musical draws,” said Della Croce, who is ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Grammy Award-winning polka great Eddie Blazonczyk, who began playing the lively music in the 1950s and went on to earn the nickname "Polka King" after starting his own band and label, ...

Grammy Award-winning polka great Eddie Blazonczyk, who began playing the lively music in the 1950s and went on to earn the nickname "Polka King" after starting his own band and label, has died. He w… ...