This tune is also known as the Dziadek Polka or translated, the Grandfather Polka. It’s a popular tune both among polka bands and in the fiddling community. Here are 3 great versions. Here’s another fabulous version featuring Canadian fiddler Mark Sullivan with the amazing Jeremy… Read More
Flaco…. Polkaholics….
The third volume of stories from the graphic novel Squeeze Box Man is in and I’m super-excited to see them. This is a huge issue, bar far our biggest – 74 pages. Jacob Yerex has once again done a fabulous job bringing my characters to… Read More
It’s Friday night. Time for a polka.
For those visitors to 27th Street who do not know, I have a little book of stories out and available at Amazon, called Squeeze Box Man. There are 16 stories as told by one Lazarus Allen Czerwinski, Lazy for short. He tells stories about the… Read More
At the end of 2015, I read many articles about all the music stars who passed in 2016. Today I’d like to salute one more performer who was very very well known within his own musical world, but his passing did not get a mention… Read More
In one of my Lazy Allen stories, My Dog’s Bigger than your Dog, I mentioned the Clown Prince of Polka, Walter Solek. In the story, the narrator, Lazy Allen, tells his buddy Staashu about the day he played poker with Walt Solek at a stag… Read More
Mexican polka that is – Conjunto – Norteno – Tex-Mex. Here’s Joel Guzman squeezing out the Rosa Ana Polka. Mighty fine, mighty fine.
When I was a boy, most of the music around our place came from my dad’s records. For the longest time, the only music I heard my mom listen to were a few Englebert Humperdinck records, and even then, not so often. That is until… Read More
Let’s go to Buffalo NY’s historic Polonia district in the 1970s and 1980s, and check out the Broadway Grill. Back then, up here in Toronto, I had no interest in polka and had no idea that in Buffalo, just down the highway, some of the… Read More
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