The 61st Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame will once again serve as a ...

It wasn’t until I served as a judge last September at the 17th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival that I realized just how many folks share a Slovenian heritage here in Northeast Ohio. And many of the ...

Moostash “Joe” Spellerberg has a passion for polka and big band music — nearly anybody living in Fremont over the age of 55 would likely attest to that. For the past 59 years, Spellerberg has hosted a ...

Recently, classic-rock fans in the Champlain Valley tuning to Barre’s 107.1 “Frank” FM were surprised to find that, rather than their daily fix of “More Than a Feeling” and “Rock You Like a Hurricane, ...

Expect less polka, but plenty of great music you've probably never heard. That's the message the buyer of Jolly Joe Timmer's WGPA-AM Sunny 1100 in Bethlehem has for Lehigh Valley listeners. Timmer, ...

Grammy nominated Polka band Lenny Gomulka and Chicago Push performed on the lawn at Heritage Woods in Agawam, in 2008. (Republican file photo) I have many reasons to consider myself fortunate. For one ...

Members of the Grammy-Award-winning "Polka King" Jimmy Sturr and his orchestra entertain nearly 1,000 visitors at Stanley Park in Westfield for the July 30 Eastern Lights celebration in 2010. Photo ...

After his show airs on WPNA 1490 AM Sunday morning, Keith Stras is hanging up his headphones and turning off his microphone a final time at his in-home studio in Elgin and retiring from the local ...

Joseph W. Timmer, known to many legions of Lehigh Valley polka fans as “Jolly Joe,” has rolled out the last dance tune on his Bethlehem radio station, WGPA-AM. Confined to a nursing home with dementia ...