JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A soggy Friday evening couldn’t dampen the spirits of the people at Johnstown Polkafest who danced, ate and made merry while the traditional songs of button boxes, horns and drums ...

TOLEDO (WTOL) - It’s back. After a 15-year absence, the Holy Toledo Polka Dance Festival has been revived. There will be plenty of Oompah music through Sunday at the Renaissance Hotel. “It’s happy ...

Apr. 5—Promoter Joe Nardone smiled with satisfaction Saturday afternoon as his gaze took in the hundreds of people gathered in the Keystone Ballroom at Mohegan PA for Pennsylvania PolkaFest 2025.

TWO THIS AFTERNOON. WELL, NEW ON 12 TODAY IS WISCONSIN POLKA DAY. GOVERNOR TONY EVERS IS MAKING THE PROCLAMATION IN HONOR OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLKA BECOMING OUR STATE DANCE. AND JOINING US ...

Pat Barrera hadn’t been out to see her favorite music in a while. But when she sat at a table on a recent Sunday to watch the 55th Annual Chicago Festival of Polka Bands in Orland Park, the bands ...

Radio host Val Pawlowski is inviting visitors to “come for lunch, stay for dinner and enjoy the music” at her 2024 Memorial Day Polka Dance in Kirtland. The annual dance will take place on May 27, ...

Jimmy Sturr and his Orchestra provided the polka music for the Pennsylvania Polkafest held at Genetti’s Best Western in Wilkes-Barre. Dancers take to the floor dancing to the polka music of Jimmy ...

You can clap your hands and stomp your feet all you want, but it’s appearing that polka music can indeed be beat. Witness the impending fate of the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame. After nearly a quarter ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y. Two dancers doing polka chinata, ...

Clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg were thrilled when they were invited to a chamber music retreat in rural upstate New York during the early months of the pandemic. It was an ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network is sponsoring “Polka for Parkinson’s,” an afternoon of fun, camaraderie, education and healing for people with Parkinson’s disease and their families. The dance, ...