Silver-haired fans in worn Brave Combo T-shirts polka alongside toddlers, teenagers and other couples under an August sun beating down on a rooftop bar on Denton’s downtown square. As the dancers ...

IT ALL STARTED WITH THE GRAMMY. Two years ago Brave Combo touched off no small controversy when Polkasonic won best polka album, beating out such pillars of the traditional genre as Jimmy Sturr and ...

No trip to Wurstfest is complete without some polka. David heads to Wursthalle with accordionist and band leader, Alex Meixner, to learn the top three sing-along songs you need to know before you go.

Jimmy Brosch, an esteemed Texas polka performer and historian, died Monday of complications following a heart attack. He was 89. Brosch was a champion for preserving the rich polka history of central ...

NEW BRAUNFELS — The official emblem of this historic German burg should show a tuba and an accordion, and bear the slogan “In Heaven, There is No Beer.” That's because New Braunfels is the undisputed ...

Revered polka artist Alex Meixner has moved to New Braunfels to increase the musical profile of Krause’s Café. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Krause's Café & Biergarten Accordionist Alex Meixner has been ...

The Chardon Polka Band plays alongside Texan musicians and bands, Cati Jo tries on German dresses and volunteers bring a unique festival to life in New Braunfels, Texas. The World According to Polka ...

Famed polka musician Alex Meixner wasn’t on the bill at Krause’s Cafe & Biergarten a few weekends ago, but fans there to see Soul Sessions got to hear him play when he sat in on trumpet for a set. It ...

Approaching the entrance of the Chandelier Ballroom in the Heights, I began to hear the faint echoes of accordions and trumpets and a pang of dread surged in my spine. I was entering the world of ...

This was not good news for a music writer with the last name of Bialczak, a guy who grew up on Long Island, where his father was a drummer in a polka band during his Wonder Bread years. The National ...

It's Saturday night and all around the SPJST Lodge 88 dance floor, middle-age men and women, some thick at the waist and stiff in the knees, joyously show off their trickiest steps. On stage, The ...