The sounds of oom-pah music filled the air in downtown Cape Girardeau as Pat Schwent and "The German Hot Seven" polka band entertained the crowd at the first Old Town Cape Oktoberfest. The event, set ...
Although some of the composers — Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Strauss among them — whose music J.D. Parr studied as a music student in the 1970s at Washburn University incorporated polkas into their ...
DILLON, S.C. (AP) — Two members of the Grammy-nominated polka band The Jan Lewan Orchestra have died in an accident here, according to a Pennsylvania newspaper. A 1991 Ford mini-bus carrying eight ...