Sorry disco duckers. State lawmakers approved companion bills Monday designating polka and square dancing as Pennsylvania’s official dances. The legislation was then shuffled off to the Senate for ...
It may not take oom-pah-pah-precedence in Topeka this session, but some Kansans want lawmakers to declare the polka the state’s official dance. Senate Bill 158 continues an effort introduced last year ...
The 19th-century European immigrants to Wisconsin arrived with polkas ringing in their ears. The polka, a lively couples dance in 2/4 time, had developed from folk roots and became a European popular ...
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 ...
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 ...
TOPEKA — Square dance caller Allen Hahn said a great injustice was underfoot in the halls of the Capitol. Fans of polka were on the verge of getting a bill through a Senate committee that would make ...
Sure, some teens might fit into convenient categories – geeks and goths and jocks and such. But Becky Livermore, who will be at the Great Lakes Folk Festival on ...