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List Of Polka Artists
This is a list of polka artists. It includes notable musicians and musical groups that play polka. Notable artists * Slavko Avsenik * Eddie Blazonczyk, The Versatones * Brave Combo, Texas, alternative, two-time Grammy Award winner * The Bravery * Tom Brusky, Wisconsin * The Chardon Polka Band, Ohio * Walter Dana, polka promoter and founder of Dana Records * Eläkeläiset * Myron Floren * FreezeDried * Global Kryner, Austrian band/pop/jazz/polka * Romy Gosz * Walt Groller * Happy Louie and Julcia's Polka Band * Walter Jagiello - Li'l Wally * The Knewz * Harold Loeffelmacher, Dutchman/Oompah * Loituma * Walter Ostanek, Canada, three-time Grammy Award winner, Slovenian-Canadian * Polka Floyd * Polkacide, San Francisco punk-polka band * POLKAHOLIX (Berlin Speed Polka) (Germany) * The Mike Schneider Polka Band, Slovenian-style polka band from Milwaukee, WI * Six Fat Dutchmen * Walt Solek, the "Clown Prince of Polka" * Jimmy Sturr, United States, eighteen Grammy Awards * Those Dar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prague Street Musicians (Polka Band)
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Walt Groller
Walt Groller (born February 12, 1931 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American polka musician. He is generally considered one of the premier polka musicians in the world. Early years Groller was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley to Austrian immigrants. By the age of four, he had learned to play the accordion and to play and sing folk music songs. By age 12, he was performing professionally. At age 14, he started his own orchestra. Groller attended Allentown Central Catholic High School in center city Allentown. In 1952, at age 21, Groller was inducted into the United States Armed Services. He served in South Korea with the United States Army. He was discharged two years later, and resumed his orchestra career, performing for live audiences and on radio. Career He was signed by Stella Records and produced seven albums and several 45s for Stella. Perhaps his best known album was ''New Christmas Songs''. Following the release of his Stella Record albums, Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenian-style Polka
Slovenian-style polka (also known as Cleveland Style polka) is an American style of polka in the Slovenian tradition. It is usually associated with Cleveland and other Midwestern cities. Instruments The Slovenian style polka band always includes a piano accordion, chromatic accordion, or the Diatonic button accordion (also called a "button box"). Some bands in Slovenia use keyboard instead of accordion. The other melody instrument is a saxophone or clarinet, and the rhythm instruments include drums, bass, and guitar or banjo. Avsenik brothers add a trumpet, too. The Slovenian style polka in the United States of America came about when immigrants from Slovenia taught the old songs to their children. Those children, as adults, translated the old songs from Slovene into English, and arranged them in a polka beat. History At first Slovenian style polka was just music for ethnic clubs and union halls, but the commercial success of Frankie Yankovic (Jankovič) and other musicians soon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mike Schneider Polka Band
The Mike Schneider Polka Band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a Slovenian-style polka group that performs at approximately 100 events annually in Wisconsin and throughout the United States. Founded in 1996 by Mike Schneider, the band is a four-time award winner and 16-time nominee from such organizations as the National Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Polka Boosters, the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame,Wisconsin Polka Hall of Famers wisconsinpolkahalloffame.com, retrieved on September 3, 2007 the Wisconsin Polka Music Awards, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polkaholix
POLKAHOLIX is a polka/rock band from Berlin, Germany. Founded in 2001, they have re-animated Berlin's polka tradition of Berlin, in their own unique way. The POLKAHOLIX debut CD "Denkste" was in the top twenty of the WORLD MUSIC CHARTS EUROPE. The POLKAHOLIX CD was nominated for the German Music Award (category world music). POLKAHOLIX got a nomination for the Ruth 2005 (category local roots). ("Ruth" is the award for folk Folk or Folks may refer to: Sociology *Nation *People * Folklore ** Folk art ** Folk dance ** Folk hero ** Folk music *** Folk metal *** Folk punk *** Folk rock ** Folk religion * Folk taxonomy Arts, entertainment, and media * Folk Plus or Fol ..., singer-songwriter and world music in Germany.) Line-up * Andreas Wieczorek (saxophone / lead voc) * Stephan Bohm (trombone / voc) * Steffen Zimmer (trumpet) * Christoph Frenz (bass guitar / voc) * Mario Ferraro (guitar / lapsteel / voc) * Jo Meyer (accordion / voc) * Snorre Schwarz (drums / voc) Media appe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polkacide
Polkacide was a band based in the San Francisco Bay Area that played "punk polka". Band history Polkacide was founded in 1985 by Ward Abronski, originally organized to play a one-time show for the 50th anniversary of the Deaf Club in San Francisco. None of the 12 original members were polka musicians at the time, but they had varied backgrounds in classical, rock, punk and jazz music. Clarinetist Neil Kaitner came up with the name for the band and also designed the band logo, which features a skull and crossed sausages. One week before the performance was to take place, it was cancelled due to noise abatement orders from local authorities. Rather than not be able to play, the band decided to play at least one performance in a punk show at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco. The band subsequently appeared on the ''Doctor Demento Barret Eugene Hansen (born April 2, 1941), known professionally as Dr. Demento, is an American radio broadcaster and record collector specializing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polka Floyd
Polka Floyd is an American band that covers many Pink Floyd songs by using the accordion to introduce polka into the music. One reviewer commented, "Cutting a vast swath across Pink's entire discography, the band injects the late great classic rock band's music with much-needed fun." The band plays "more than 40 Pink Floyd songs, mostly from 1968 to 1979." The band has shared bills with Unknown Hinson, əkoostik hookah, and The Toasters. One reviewer has said the band's first album is "like the antidote to angst" and " eak show Floyd for the 21st century, ya gotta love it." The band was established in 2006. "'We're more of a rock band with a polka edge than a polka band with a rock edge,' said Ken Haas, lead singer and the one who started the band’s sound by accident." As one reviewer said, "Well this whole thing just kicks ass. And let me say it again, the guitar works by Ken Haas is remarkable. .... There'll be no more AAAAAAGHHH................but there will be more EE- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Ostanek
Ladislav John "Walter" Ostanek, CM (born 20 April 1935) is a Canadian musician. He is known as "Canada's Polka King." He has received twenty-one nominations for Grammy Awards and won three. Early life Born in Duparquet, Quebec in 1935, his family moved to St. Catharines, Ontario, when he was a boy. A young Ostanek received his first accordion as a gift in 1944. After several years, Ostanek became a popular entertainer in Southern Ontario, performing Slovenian-style (also known as Cleveland-style) polkas and waltzes. He could be heard frequently on the radio in St. Catharines and Welland. Walter began playing polka after his best friend introduced him to the accordion at age 5. Career In 1957 Ostanek formed his own band playing Slovenian-style polka music. In 1963, Ostanek and his band, the Walter Ostanek Band, would record their first of many albums. Over his career, Ostanek would record more than 50 albums and become known as Canada's Polka King. He has received three Gram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loituma
Loituma is a Finnish quartet whose members combine the Finnish vocal tradition with the sounds of the kantele. Loituma were selected Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival. History Loituma’s initial incarnation was in the autumn of 1989 as a septet called ''Jäykkä Leipä'' ("Stiff Bread"), born in the Sibelius Academy’s Folk music department. The original lineup included singers Sanna Kurki-Suonio and Tellu Paulasto, who later left for Sweden to join Hedningarna. Over the years, the group has persistently followed its own musical path, incorporating diverse influences into its music. One of the cornerstones of Finnish folk music is the art of singing, through which the stories and feelings which comprise aspects of the Finnish heritage are conveyed, aided by backing musicians Martti Pokela and Toivo Alaspää. Another cornerstone of Loituma's art is a Finnish folk instrument called the kantele, which is featured in varied ways in their recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Loeffelmacher
Harold Loeffelmacher (March 14, 1905 – January 30, 1987) was an American musician and bandleader best known for forming the polka band known as the Six Fat Dutchmen. The band, based in New Ulm, Minnesota, traveled extensively and played as many as 335 dates per year, mostly in the Midwestern United States. Over a span of 14 years the Six Fat Dutchmen recorded 800 polkas, waltzes and schottisches on the RCA Victor label, and for ten years they were signed by Dot Records. Loeffelmacher was inducted into the International Polka Association's Hall of Fame in 1975. Biography Loeffelmacher was born in 1905 on a Minnesota farm near Fort Ridgely. After his family moved to New Ulm, he took violin lessons, then moved to wind instruments, including the tuba. Later he took up the trombone, which became his primary band instrument. In 1932, he started "Six Fat Dutchmen," which grew from the initial six to over a dozen musicians. They played the Nebraska State Fair for 26 straight years. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knewz
The Knewz is a polka band based in Buffalo, New York, which was started in 1990 by Mike Burka, Tom Picciano, and Tommy Wanderlich. The band plays many original songs, covers of country and rock songs, and also traditional Polish polkas, obereks, and waltzes. In 2008, The Knewz received two awards from the United States Polka Association: Favorite Recording of the Year, Headlinez, and Favorite Song of the Year, "When I Call Your Name", written by Tommy Wanderlich. Occasionally, fans of the band would bring cue cards with the words to songs on them as Wanderlich would often forget the lyrics. This is believed to have been started by Wisconsin native, Debbie Dunaj. Recordings Touring Throughout their existence The Knewz has toured most of the northeast and midwestern states. They’ve developed followings in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. They’re also a regular booking for most of the major polka festivals held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
