Advance sales weren't so great. Maybe 25 tickets, tops, sold in advance. OK, not such a great idea after all. Back to the drawing board. Don't get your hopes up. But at 11 a.m. on Jan. 17, there was a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Dyngus Day celebrated its Sweet 16 on Monday, drawing thousands to Cleveland’s Gordon Square neighborhood to polka, eat pierogi and mark the end of the Lenten season. The official ...

Cleveland-Style Polka icons Johnny Pecon and Frankie Yankovic, in 1949. In 1963, Cleveland-Style Polka icon Johnny Pecon released “Browns Polka,” a festive two-minute track that appeared on his record ...

Ziwich has 20 albums in the polka field to his credit, and is the bandleader of the International Sound Machine. The North Olmsted resident has had a polka band since he was a teenager, and he is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 6th annual Polka Golf Outing, a fundraiser for the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame, has been set for Aug. 15 at St ...

There is a growing movement among polka aficionados to infuse the music with rock 'n' roll to convince a new generation that polka is not Old World music played on big accordions by men in polyester ...

CLEVELAND , Aug. 22 (UPI) -- About three dozen polka musicians braved the rain to see a little patch of Cleveland named for polka king Frankie Yankovic. Frankie Yankovic Square, a small grassy lot at ...