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, but they have also performed in the United States/

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, France and Hungary.

Members

*Kornelius Flowers (since 1991) -

vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production i ...

s *Jörg "Warpig" Stoffregen (since 2004) -

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

*Matt Dawson (since 2011) -

pedal steel The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can p ...

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

, mandolin *Chris Birch (since 2011) -

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

*Nataša Grujović (since 2008) -

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

*Herr Dannehl (since 1994) -

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

*"Boergermeister" Markus Schu (since 2006) -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Albums

*1992: Songs From the Urban Country Hell (Strangeways/Indigo) *1993: Polka Hard (Strangeways/Indigo) *1994: Love Will Tear Us Apart – Vinyl-Single (Strangeways/Indigo) *1995: These Days EP (Strangeways/Indigo) *1996: Budapest Sessions feat. VEZERKAR (HU) *1998: 5 Years of Hard Polka 1993-1998 *2001: The Haunted House Of Polka (Pinorrekk/Edel) *2005: Pölka (SumoRex/Broken Silence) *2007: Polka over Serbja – live in Chośebuz (SumoRex/Broken Silence) *2009: Squandering Youth (SumoRex/Broken Silence) *2013: Road Worrier (SumoRex/Broken Silence)

References

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