An oberek can be a formal dance or in the Polish-American tradition, a brass-driven social dance. It can also be a folk tune – and regular readers of this blog will know how charged up I get when I hear a little roots music.

Here’s a couple more samples of Polish folk music. Although my heritage is Polish, I don’t have much knowledge or information about this musical tradition at all.

More familiar to me is the sound of bands like The Dynatones. They may sing in Polish and play polkas and obereks, but oddly enough I think of that sound as American music. Here’s Scrubby and the Dynatones: