Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Meisner plays one of his accordions that was made in the 1970s in his Whitewater home in 2003. Steve Meisner, one of ...

Tamara Funk and her friend Joan Steele danced together in a circle, hands clasped, stepping in three-quarter time to the tune of an accordion. "Polka is done in three-quarter time, and then you just ...

TWO THIS AFTERNOON. WELL, NEW ON 12 TODAY IS WISCONSIN POLKA DAY. GOVERNOR TONY EVERS IS MAKING THE PROCLAMATION IN HONOR OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLKA BECOMING OUR STATE DANCE. AND JOINING US ...

More recently it broadened its scope to recognize musicians throughout Wisconsin, a state with about 285 active polka bands, said Hall of Fame president “Tuba Dan” Jerabek. Allen was selected for his ...

And when July 4 rolled around, a polka band was a sure lock at the “Orange Boards,” a make-shift beer bar made with orange painted lumber at the Riverside Park pavilion. Wisconsin has its own Polka ...

Smithsonian Folkways: SF 40088 (on container: SF CD 40088). Polkas and other dance music performed by 7 Wisconsin polka bands. All selections previously released. Program notes by Richard March (28 p.

Verne Meisner, 66, whose accordion-propelled polka tunes kept the upper Midwest dancing for 57 years and who won international accolades for his musical skill, died June 10 of cancer at St. Luke's ...

When the photo gallery debuted, more than 650 people filled the museum, many of them dancing to The Squeezettes, a Milwaukee band named polka artist of the year in 2012 and 2013 by the Wisconsin Area ...