What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor? He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event ...
What kind of person can coax shy, diffident Minnesotans to boogie down on the dance floor? He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - It’s time to put on the dancing shoes for the 44th annual event drawing thousands of people to Pulaski. Experts say that the key to the perfect polka dance performance is ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the 1960s, it was the twist; in the ’20s, the Charleston. But these fads were mere blips on ...
TOLEDO (WTOL) - It’s back. After a 15-year absence, the Holy Toledo Polka Dance Festival has been revived. There will be plenty of Oompah music through Sunday at the Renaissance Hotel. “It’s happy ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Have you ever danced the polka? Kansas lawmakers are working to get the polka named as the official state dance of Kansas. Originally a Czech dance, the polka spread throughout ...
Get your beer-and-schnitzel taste buds ready and unpack your finest lederhosen or dirndl. It’s time for Oktoberfest at The Wharf at one of the coolest locations in Southwest D.C. “We’ve been hosting ...
The Boyne Falls Polish Festival runs through Sunday. There will be plenty of polish music, polka dancing, and homemade polish food. The festival’s chairman says they have a new, much larger tent, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. The polka chinata, in which two men whirl together in a crouch, is revived in a dance by Alessandro Sciarroni, coming to PS21 in Chatham, N.Y. Two dancers doing polka chinata, ...
Part steamy small-town jamboree, part honest-to-God Czech cultural celebration, the National Polka Festival in Ennis is one of your best chances all year to escape the mess of the city and remind ...
Some think the polka is doomed -- a piece of history. But don't tell that to Cathy Erickson of Holt, Minn. She has a little band and she knows people all around who still like the polka and they like ...
He’s a pirate and he calls himself Jimi Jimi Jimi, the Polka Dancing Pirate. If there’s an Oktoberfest event at the Germanic-American Institute in St. Paul, a polka mass at St. Boniface Catholic ...