You can clap your hands and stomp your feet all you want, but it’s appearing that polka music can indeed be beat. Witness the impending fate of the Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fame. After nearly a quarter ...

TOWN OF MAINE, Wis. – Local polka fans are enjoying the music as long as their bodies allow. Seventy years ago, rural Marathon County residents gathered during weekends at dance halls for weddings and ...

TWO THIS AFTERNOON. WELL, NEW ON 12 TODAY IS WISCONSIN POLKA DAY. GOVERNOR TONY EVERS IS MAKING THE PROCLAMATION IN HONOR OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POLKA BECOMING OUR STATE DANCE. AND JOINING US ...

There’s something about polka. Whether it’s the middle European version, or the Mexican version, or some amalgamation of a number of styles, the dance and music that supports it is infectious.

OSHKOSH - Many dance fads come and go, but none resonate with Wisconsin quite as much as the classic dances passed down from the years before disco. German and Scandinavian settlers brought with them ...

Almost all states with an official dance choose the square dance, but not Wisconsin. Not by a longshot. We picked the polka in 1993, as a nod to ethnic heritage, but the dance doesn’t acknowledge just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steve Meisner plays one of his accordions that was made in the 1970s in his Whitewater home in 2003. Steve Meisner, one of ...

If everyone knew how to polka, crime would be lower, people would always be friendly and Brett Favre would not be a Minnesota Viking. OK, it may not be the answer to all problems, but those who polka ...

Tamara Funk and her friend Joan Steele danced together in a circle, hands clasped, stepping in three-quarter time to the tune of an accordion. "Polka is done in three-quarter time, and then you just ...

And the WAMI goes to ... polka? Yup, the WAMI Awards -- the Wisconsin version of the Grammys -- will recognize the state's best polka artist at its annual awards ceremony next month in Appleton. Last ...

PULASKI – Polka legend Alvin Styczynski of Pulaski died Monday at the age of 87. If you liked polka music and lived in Wisconsin, you likely heard Styczynski at some point on his concertina and ...

WAUSAU - The couple whirled around the dance floor as if they were on skates, their heads bouncing to the driving polka beat, their feet a blur beneath them. A terrific combo called the New Generation ...