Toni Jarvis will spend today doing what she has done the last Saturday of every summer month for 70 years: playing the accordion for the fun-loving crowd at the German Park picnics. "It's not a ...

Fröhliche Musiker Blasorchester is the name of mid-Michigan’s own German Polka Band. The band’s name translates to “happy musicians in a wind band” and features 14 members, including co-founders Sara ...

It’s the final weekend of Wurstfest, the New Braunfels-based annual festival which celebrates German food, beer and, of course, music. The festival began as a single-day event in 1961, an homage to ...

Compared to electric guitars or drums, the oft-maligned accordion isn't a particularly sexy instrument ... unless you happen to play polkas. And for more than a half-century, Rockford's Virgil Baker ...

MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer ...

NEW ULM — Polka may be beer-drinking party music, but it’s also spiritual. That’s what over 300 people discovered at the third annual polka service held Sunday morning at New Ulm’s Bavarian Blast, a ...

When was the last time you listened to some polka music? Prior to and during the World Wars, many families fled from Eastern Europe and settled here in Michigan. Thereafter, it was common to hear the ...

Among free-reed instruments with bellows, the accordion was developed in the early 1800s alongside others like the concertina, bandoneon, and harmonium. Google Doodle celebrated the ‘accordion’ on ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...