The Free Press: So you’re out with an album of rock and roll. Why would one of the best polka bands in the Midwest shift genres, even for just one album? Kris Keltgen: Music connects people ...

LynnMarie is a squeeze-box player and vocalist and the first female artist to win a Grammy nod for Best Polka Album, and she fuses high-energy rock, pop, country and traditional Slovenian music.

Quick: name 15 of the best polka bands in the Lehigh Valley. Need help? Just look in the Musikfest program book — they’re all playing at this year’s festival. And that’s not all.

Grammy nominee Polka Family Band is a PolkaFest favorite and has been coming to the event for many years. “They are one of the most popular polka bands in the country, and they play at all the ...

Some of the best polka bands in the Lehigh Valley will be featured at Musikfest this year, along with a few good out-of-town acts thrown in for variety. The big stage at Festplatz will be ...

ROCKTOBER: The Mountain Top Polka Band plays 30 engagements during Oktoberfest season each year. “Some people say, ‘I really don’t know about polka,’ but we make it for everyone ...

As Grammy-nominated player John Gora noted, one of his most popular polka covers is the rock band Genesis’ “Follow You, Follow Me.” “And Phil Collins liked it,” he said of the Genesis ...

A fan of country music, he'd find ways to twist the two styles together. As best he can remember, he was one of only two bandleaders in Texas to have a steel-guitar player in a polka band.

polka music and dancing briefly entered popular culture in a big way once more, this time in America. Slovenian-American accordionist Frankie Yankovic, of Cleveland, became the biggest star and ...

Believe it or not — Lanier Middle School is home to one of the state’s best polka bands. The breakout group, which consists of Honors Band students who are also enrolled in German, placed ...