Pat Barrera hadn’t been out to see her favorite music in a while. But when she sat at a table on a recent Sunday to watch the 55th Annual Chicago Festival of Polka Bands in Orland Park, the bands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In dance halls and event spaces across northwest Ohio, it didn’t take much to start a party when Duane Malinowski walked in: an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – A soggy Friday evening couldn't dampen the spirits of the people at Johnstown Polkafest who danced, ate and made ...

MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- In the post-World War II era, the names Lawrence Welk and Frankie Yankovic were as familiar as Robin Thicke and Justin Bieber are today. However, they are fading from memory -- ...

FRANKFORD — What is polka music? Ask musician Ed Goldberg and the answer is simple. “It’s happy music,” the accordion player said. “People, as soon as they enter into a building and they hear a polka ...

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, ...

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 ...

Inside the door, a couple collected $8 and dispensed tickets that doubled as raffle numbers. Once in the hall, guests collected a beer or a Coke before taking a seat with the generations of friends ...

Pulaski—known as the Polka Capital of the World—is hosting its 47th annual Polka Days festival this weekend, drawing polka ...

Jud and Cathy Murray embraced as they skillfully swirled among other dance pairs Wednesday at the Crow Wing County Fair. The Brainerd couple nearing a half-century of marriage began dancing together ...

Almost all states with an official dance choose the square dance, but not Wisconsin. Not by a longshot. We picked the polka in 1993, as a nod to ethnic heritage, but the dance doesn’t acknowledge just ...