If there's a polka heaven — and why wouldn't there be? — then Concertina Millie is now up there playing "Alley Cat" on her squeezebox nicknamed "Baby." A proud member of both the Polka and World ...

NEW ULM — A longtime hotbed for concertina and polka music, New Ulm held its first World Concertina Congress Saturday. The annual congress and hall of fame induction devoted to the traditional German ...

Like many men his age, Andy Kochanski always thought about owning a bar. When out with his friends for a night on the town, the born-and-bred South Sider would take it all in, thinking about what he ...

Art Altenburg's Concertina Bar drew hundreds of polka dancers every weekend. When Andy Kochanski bought the bar just over four years ago, he reopened as Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall - a classic ...

From the sidewalk along Grand Avenue, the sound emanating from the walls of Major Hall is unmistakable–drums beating in 2/4 time, the joyous wail of the concertina–if not unbelievable. But your ears ...

Perhaps the best concertina player New Ulm ever had – Elmer Scheid – died at age 90 on Friday, May 4, in St. Paul. Scheid, whose polka band performed for 50 years, learned to play the concertina as a ...

PULASKI – Polka legend Alvin Styczynski of Pulaski died Monday at the age of 87. If you liked polka music and lived in Wisconsin, you likely heard Styczynski at some point on his concertina and ...