Today, Joe Jr. and his son Mike are both part of the house band at Hofbrauhaus in Pittsburgh’s South Side, playing old and new polka music for crowds of all ages with several groups housed at ...

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 ...

and his subsequent five-year jail sentence. Made in collaboration with Lewan himself (who continued his polka-music career after leaving prison) and based on a 2009 documentary about him titled The ...

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 ...

Concurrent with the emergence of the polka was the booming popularity of brass bands and the invention of a variety of squeeze boxes - accordions and concertinas. Innovative tinkerers in France ...

Four days, 36 bands and a sold-out crowd. That’s the short story of the “Mollie B Polka Party” taping that took place Thursday through Sunday, Aug. 8-11, at the Medina Entertainment Center ...

Both were raised in families where polka music was a regular part of the family soundtrack, and both are part of the effort to keep the ethnic musical tradition alive today. “I grew up with my ...

Konop recognized Lloyd’s lifetime achievement and dedication to polka music, having followed in his father’s footsteps. More news:Two Rivers’ Machut’s Supper Club is now Rita’s.