Helen Koenig, 78, and her husband, Oliver Koenig, 84, dance together at the Polka and Waltz Club in DaCosta Hall on Sunday. The onset of Alzheimer’s disease has stolen pieces of Oliver Koenig’s memory ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Polka Mass and Dance with the Wayne Tomsic Orchestra will take place July 24 at the SNPJ Farm, 10946 Heath Road in Kirtland. The members and friends of SNPJ Lodge 5 welcome the public to the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Each dance brought a new partner for Paul Farkas, who made sure none of the ladies left without a waltz or a polka at the Lehigh Valley Polka Travelers’ annual Christmas dance on Wednesday. There was ...
CLEVELAND -- Lou Trebar, a button-box accordionist, known for incorporating elements of Viennese waltzes and American jazz into traditional Slovenian polka music, died Thursday at the Slovene Home for ...
It’s been a contentious legislative session here in Connecticut. But legislators were able to agree on a few things. For instance: German immigrant Gustave Whitehead was the first to fly in Bridgeport ...
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, ...
What’s the difference between an accordion player and a terrorist? Terrorists have sympathizers. Yes, that’s a joke, but you can forgive the polka community for not laughing right now. On June 4, the ...
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 ...
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