Leon Olsen, a New Ulm concertina player, bandleader and teacher, died Tuesday at age 72 after a brief battle with cancer. In ...

Is everybody happy.” Larry Olsen yelled out that more than once when he played his concertina with his brother Leon, who was also working his magic on the musical instrument well known in polka ...

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 ...

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 ...

After nearly two years of not being able to produce live in-person concerts due to the pandemic, the Warren Symphony Orchestra will make its triumphant return to the stage with “Come Dance with Us,” a ...

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 ...

What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor? He’s a pirate and he calls himself ...

Smithsonian Folkways: SF 40088 (on container: SF CD 40088). Polkas and other dance music performed by 7 Wisconsin polka bands. All selections previously released. Program notes by Richard March (28 p.

Munich may be an ocean away from Blacksburg, but don't tell that to the director of the traditional German Oompah band, Ed Schwartz. Decked out in traditional German lederhosen (think leather shorts ...

DEADWOOD - More than one gentleman steered his lady through a high-stepping spin Saturday afternoon as they circled the temporary dance floor gracing a room at the Four Aces Casino. It was the second ...

With talk of a pending winter storm over the weekend, around 30 seniors gathered at the Grand Forks Senior Center to ignore the snow and enjoy an afternoon of coffee and polka music. The dance floor ...