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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...