That was the early 1950s, just in the wake of Frankie Yankovic's having made the Slovenian style of polka one of the most popular forms of music in Wisconsin. By the 1960s, the Verne Meisner Band ...

TWO RIVERS – Get ready to polka. A tribute concert to the “Polka King,” Manitowoc County ... while embracing the music of his ...

and his friend would play polka ... Polka King himself, Frankie Yankovic. “I was contacted by Frankie to come to Nashville and record with him,” said Tady, who also was a longtime music ...

In the 2017 Netflix movie The Polka King, the popular Hollywood actor Jack Black stars as the Polish singer and band leader Jan Lewandowski, better known by his American stage name: Jan Lewan. The ...

The next part was a little trickier. How were two people living in Connecticut, neither of whom play polka music, going to ...

The band barely generated any income and Lewan himself often used to end with debts. The self-proclaimed polka king would not admit to bankruptcy, his proud self would not allow that. Instead ...

Sinchak started his first band, the Polka Serenaders, with Joe Fedorchak when he was in eighth grade. But before Sinchak became a polka king, he was a Saint. WHOT-AM DJ Dick Biondi was doing ...

When the band played "Roll Out The Barrel," a Wisconsin polka staple, people got up from their seats and danced. Sponsor Message "It's probably like the best job I have," said Tim Kozlovski ...

The climb for bluesy-country crooner Marcus King ... the band was back for their encore, which included a cover of the Allman Brothers’ “Ramblin’ Man,” complete with lines about Wisconsin ...

(WSAW) -- If you’re looking for something to do this weekend in Wisconsin, there are numerous ... In addition to polka music, there will be more than a dozen varieties of craft beer.