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 ...
Mention the name of any rock icon from Elvis Presley to Bruce Springsteen and you’ll likely get the following response from my octogenarian neighbor: “It’s all garbage." That my neighbor doesn’t like ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The indie crowd should be up in arms at a major slight delivered by the Grammy Awards. No, we're not talking about the indie rock crowd. We're talking the grassroots world of polka music, which has ...
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 ...
Each dance brought a new partner for Paul Farkas, who made sure none of the ladies left without a waltz or a polka at the Lehigh Valley Polka Travelers’ annual Christmas dance on Wednesday. There was ...
A Polka Mass and Dance with the Wayne Tomsic Orchestra will take place July 24 at the SNPJ Farm, 10946 Heath Road in Kirtland. The members and friends of SNPJ Lodge 5 welcome the public to the ...
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, ...
It’s been a contentious legislative session here in Connecticut. But legislators were able to agree on a few things. For instance: German immigrant Gustave Whitehead was the first to fly in Bridgeport ...
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 ...
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