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The Mike Schneider Polka Band, Slovenian-style polka band from Milwaukee, WI [3] Six Fat Dutchmen; Walt Solek, the "Clown Prince of Polka" Jimmy Sturr, United States, eighteen Grammy Awards; Those Darn Accordions; Lawrence Welk, South Dakota; Whoopee John Wilfahrt "Weird Al" Yankovic (Every studio album except his self-titled debut and "Even ...
Don Peachey is from Burnett, Wisconsin.He started playing the accordion at age 14, taking lessons from the Beaver Dam Music Center. While he was a junior in high school, he formed his own polka band and their first paying engagement was at the Fairwater Civic Center in the Village of Fairwater, Wisconsin [3] in June 1951, the same year Peachey graduated from Horicon High School, Horicon ...
Cuca, which adopted the slogan "World's Largest Line of Old Time Music," is known for the host of polka and ethnic musicians it recorded including Alvin Styczynski, Verne Meisner, Syl Liebl, the Goose Island Ramblers, John Check, Jerry Goetsch, Roger Bright, and the Edelweiss Stars. Citation Records was founded as a division of Cuca.
Harold Loeffelmacher, circa 1957. The Six Fat Dutchmen was an American polka band, formed around 1932 by Harold Loeffelmacher in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States.The band was known mostly for playing the German-American (sometimes called "oom-pah") style of polka music that originated from Germany and the German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia.
Founded in 1996 by Mike Schneider, the band is a four-time award winner and 16-time nominee from such organizations as the National Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Polka Boosters, the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame, [1] the Wisconsin Polka Music Awards, [2] and the Wisconsin Area Music Industry (WAMI).
Gosz commented that they did it "just to see what the band sounded like." [2] The recording of "Pilsen Polka" became a bestseller throughout the decade and was key to building Gosz's popularity. Later that same year, the band donated its services for the diamond jubilee celebration of St. Mary's Catholic church in Tisch Mills, Wisconsin.
Brave Combo is a polka fusion band based in Denton, Texas. Founded in 1979 by guitarist / keyboardist / accordionist Carl Finch , they have been a prominent fixture in the Texas music scene for more than thirty-five years. [ 2 ]
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 ...