A legendary Chicago polka musician has died. Eddie Blazonczyk Sr., the leader of the Grammy-winning Versatones, died Monday at Palos Community Hospital. He was 70. Blazonczyk recorded dozens of polka ...

Stas Bulanda and Dyno-Chicago has taken the stage at Polonia Banquets on South Archer, a regular venue for the band and one of the only places left to hear live polka music in Chicago. Seated center ...

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. (CBS)-- Eddie Blazonczyk, the man known as Chicago's polka king, has died at the age of 70. A news release says Blazonczyk died Monday. He was born in Chicago to Polish immigrant ...

Keith G. Stras is on a mission to save polka, which is to say he has his work cut out for him. The demographic outlook for the music is bleak: young people are not embracing polka, and as for the old ...

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Move over Springsteen, Sting and Sade. Make way for Eddie Blazonczyk and Lenny Gomulka. Two of Chicago`s oom-pah-pah and push polka boys were whooping it up Thursday afternoon after each had albums ...

Some children follow in their parents’ footsteps, while others march to a different beat. Keith Stras is one of the marchers. And the beat is that of the polka. “There have been a lot of jokes made ...

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In Bridgeport, they pulled the plug on polka nearly three years ago. Peter J. Danielczuk’s “Polka Celebration” had aired on WICC-AM for 10 years, but when push came to shove, the much more profitable ...