Younger musicians also are keeping the polka tradition alive. Garrett Tatano, 24, of Canonsburg was born and raised on polka music, with Polish and Italian parents who both played accordion as he ...

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 ...

would often be dubbed ‘polka’ musicians simply because of their heritage. Laurie Gomulka Palazzolo, in her 2003 book Horn Man, which discusses Detroit’s Polish American music scene between 1935 and ...

Novosel plays a mix of older and more contemporary polka musicians in his radio shows on WEDO (810 AM) and WKHB (620 AM). “There’s a lot of good newer music coming out, but the foundational ...

This marks 20 years for the playing of Polka carols by this mash-up of musicians, each with their own booklet of music and a different part to play. "One of these things is not like the other.

rock 'n' roll had captured the popular music industry, but polka has endured in enclaves of a variety of communities. In these communities, during the last quarter-century, polka musicians and ...

The Polka Bowl fundraiser was made possible by many sponsors, donors, community members, volunteers and superb musicians.

Charlie Braunreiter and I are several generations apart but we can agree on one thing: I don’t know much about old-time polka music and he doesn’t know much about music past the early ...

In the McLeod County History Museum, there’s a plaque on the wall near the entrance to the west wing that reads “No power on earth has the ability to move people like the spirit of music.” ...