Polka music will be in abundance the last full weekend of July when parishioners of St. Mark’s Catholic Church celebrate their German heritage at Julifest. The annual summer festival takes place ...

Alpine music — and more specifically Polka and Oberkrainer — are considered ancient German. But what many people don't know is that the origin is not in the Bavarian or Swiss Alps but in Slovenia.

The Polish American polka blended Polish, Czech, German, Slovenian and Mexican influences ... was practiced as a casual dance by this group long after others had drifted away from it. No wonder then ...

By the 1960s, rock 'n' roll had captured the popular music industry, but polka has endured in enclaves ... also includes in the band's repertoire German, Czech, and even Norwegian numbers to ...

When the museum relocated, the Music Hall of Fame moved in. I wasn’t sure what I’d find, though I suspected the museum would be heavily weighted toward musicians in the German polka music genre.

River City Baskapelle, a West Bend-based band, is slated to play German music from 11 a.m. to noon. Copper Box, an Oshkosh-based, multi-genre quartet that plays polka, rock and blues will play ...