In the 2017 Netflix movie The Polka King, the popular Hollywood actor Jack Black stars as the Polish singer and band leader Jan Lewandowski, better known by his American stage name: Jan Lewan. The ...

Huge crowds turned out. Norm heard a modem Polish polka sound firmly grounded in the Polish folk music familiar to him from house parties and weddings. What impressed Norm were the band's lack of ...

Jan Lewandowski, born in 1941 in Poland ... terms of finances. The band barely generated any income and Lewan himself often used to end with debts. The self-proclaimed polka king would not ...

Deb Jones – Group Coordinator, Wheeling Polka Festival When I was a young kid, my father used to listen to it on the radio. That’s how we got interested, love the Polish music, love it.