Muskegon — Polka music was eclipsed by rock and roll in the 1950s, “The Lawrence Welk Show” came and went by the ’80s, and polka was eliminated as a Grammy category in 2009. Through it all, the Old ...

Familienplatz at Musikfest this year will feature such bands as the Al Meixner Trio, Girls From Mars, Connections, Blind Mary and Cold Coffee. The 50 groups appearing at Familienplatz this year will ...

Joe Grkman Jr. can recall his father playing the accordion as far back as he can remember. “He’d have a friend come over to play guitar along with him,” said Grkman, 70, a Westmoreland County native ...

If polkas exude happiness, then Joe Vargo made a heck of a lot of people happy. Over more than three decades before his death last week at age 69, Vargo played polkas on several radio stations in the ...