It was a picture-perfect summer day for the recent Polka Party at the Hammond Marina. The ever-popular event took place during the city’s annual Festival of the Lakes celebration. The day was ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y. Two dancers doing polka chinata, ...

PULASKI (WLUK) -- A fun summer tradition has returned to Pulaski once again. Despite rain in the forecast, Pulaski Polka Days is back for its 46th year as hundreds of people are already joining in on ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Czech Moravian Hall is back with its unique musical celebration of its culture. Tammy and Dennis Biswell visited Eye on NE Kansas to share information about their upcoming ...

MUSKEGON, MI -- The fryers will be bubbling, the accordions tuned and the flower crowns arranged just right for the 10th annual Muskegon Polish Festival. Founded a decade ago by Polish community ...

"A bicentennial project: Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song" ; includes recordings from field and commercial sources. Program notes include words of the songs, and bibliographical and ...

He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...

TULSA, Okla. — The German-American Society of Tulsa held their second annual Polka Party on Saturday. "We are inviting the public to come dance, eat, share part of the German culture with us and we're ...

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Lucy Bemiss and Evelyn Kasperek said it is their knowledge of traditional Polish customs and Polish history that earned them their respective titles of American Polish Century Club Festival queen and ...

Kansas Czech-Slovak Princess Brooklyn Webb encouraged legislators Thursday to support a bill declaring polka the state's official dance. She said the style of dance had its roots in European culture ...