NEW ULM — A longtime hotbed for concertina and polka music, New Ulm held its first World Concertina Congress Saturday. The annual congress and hall of fame induction devoted to the traditional German ...

MILWAUKEE — Three nights a week at Art’s Concertina Bar, you can step back to a time when couples went out to dance the polka and listen to the sounds of a concertina. But now Art Altenburg wants to ...

Andy Kochanski's near-South Side bar is a local landmark, and a throwback to a time when polka was commonplace. Squeezeboxes still get their due here, but Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall is a hidden ...

PULASKI – Polka legend Alvin Styczynski of Pulaski died Monday at the age of 87. If you liked polka music and lived in Wisconsin, you likely heard Styczynski at some point on his concertina and ...

Toe-tapping music and happy melodies keep members of the Central Wisconsin Concertina Club on the move. Local band leader Dan Gruetzmacher started the Concertina Club in 1971, and the group has grown ...

If there's a polka heaven — and why wouldn't there be? — then Concertina Millie is now up there playing "Alley Cat" on her squeezebox nicknamed "Baby." A proud member of both the Polka and World ...

Erwin Suess got his first squeezebox when he was 6, and when the plowing and milking were done on the family farm near Sleepy Eye, he’d curl up and play along with the polka likes of Whoopee John and ...

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