One of the songs to be inducted as an All-Time Polka hit at this year's National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum awards show on Saturday, Nov. 29 will have a local connection—to the late ...

The sounds of oom-pah music filled the air in downtown Cape Girardeau as Pat Schwent and "The German Hot Seven" polka band entertained the crowd at the first Old Town Cape Oktoberfest. The event, set ...

On Sunday mornings when I was growing up, the dial on the little radio in the kitchen was always set to AM 900. My mom made pancakes to a soundtrack of “The Cherry Polka,” “Horsey Keep Your Tail Up” ...

Stephen Juricic was 7 when his mother delivered what most boys would consider a social death sentence. While the other kids in his south Chicago neighborhood were out playing baseball, he was stuck ...