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 ...

What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor? He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every good musician loves a jam session. Bruce Korosa is no exception, despite the fact that his music may not be considered mainstream. That the riffs and licks he enjoys come from accordians and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mentor -- Johnny Vadnal, an internationally known accordionist and polka bandleader who had his own television show in the early 1950s, died Monday at LakeWest Hospital in Willoughby. The 84-year-old ...

TWO RIVERS – The Two Rivers Community Band will host a concert titled Polka in the Park July 31. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. in Central Park, featuring "The Star-Spangled Banner." Attendees can ...

Polka began as a Czech peasant dance. The basis of polka dancing is in the pattern of lightly stepping from one food to the other. This movement, derived from the Czech word “pulka,” meaning ...

One-two. one-two. Senior dancers lined up in white shirts and black pants, swaying to classic polka music at Pioneer Hall at the Iowa State Fair. The first song, "Harvest Time Schottische," instantly ...