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The National Polka Festival is an annual parade and festival held in Ennis, Texas celebrating the Czech heritage in the city. The 3-day festival is held every Memorial Day weekend. The 3 fraternal halls offer a lunch or dinner with Czech foods such as klobase (sausage), sauerkraut , and kolache , as well as live entertainment with traditional ...
Humming Bird Records (often referred to as Hummingbird Records) was a mid-20th century record label based in Waco, Texas. The label focused on local and regional artists of various genres including Cajun music (e.g. Harry Choates ) and Texas Czech polka / waltz music (e.g. Frank Kubin, Rhine Winkler, etc.).
Schulenburg is a city in Fayette County, Texas, United States. Its population was 2,633 at the 2020 census. [4] Known for its German culture, Schulenburg is home of the Texas Polka Music Museum. It is in a rural, agricultural area settled by German and Czech emigrants in the 1800s. [5]
The Czech music in other Czech American communities tends to be prominent but not as commercialized as Texas. In Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas the style of Polka music is similar to the Texas Czechs, but in Wisconsin and Minnesota the big band brass style of polka is more prominent.
Czech Texans are residents of the state of Texas who are of Czech ancestry. Large scale Czech immigration to Texas began after the Revolutions of 1848 changed the political climate in Central Europe, and after a brief interruption during the U.S. Civil War, continued until the First World War. [1]
The festival features Czech cuisine, polka music, a Memorial Day parade through downtown, and polka dances hosted at event halls operated by fraternal organizations such as Sokol or the Knights of Columbus. There is a homecoming-like competition among residents and community-based fraternal organizations to crown the annual Duke and Duchess of ...
Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center La Grange Fayette Replica of a late 19th and early 20th century Czech Moravian community [108] Texas Polka Music Museum Schulenburg Fayette Texas polka music, bands and musicians of Czech, German and Polish ancestry [109] Texas Quilt Museum La Grange Fayette Historic and contemporary quilts [110] Winedale
I, Songs of the Polka King Vol. II (1997), and Brave Combo's Kick Ass Polkas (2000). Jimmy Sturr & His Orchestra is one of the most popular polka bands in America, having won 18 of the 24 awards for Grammy Award for Best Polka Album. Polka Varieties was an hour-long television program of polka music originating from Cleveland, Ohio. The show ...