NEW ULM — Polka may be beer-drinking party music, but it’s also spiritual. That’s what over 300 people discovered at the third annual polka service held Sunday morning at New Ulm’s Bavarian Blast, a ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa --- Dolly and Gene Lind listened to polka music and sipped beer. All the Cedar Falls residents needed to make their Oktoberfest experience complete Saturday afternoon were the ...

Alpine music — and more specifically Polka and Oberkrainer — are considered ancient German. But what many people don't know is that the origin is not in the Bavarian or Swiss Alps but in Slovenia. And ...