There’s the old saying about finding a “Stradivarius in the attic,” leading to an unexpected windfall. While rooting around in the attic as a child, Alan “Rocky” Rochlin found a different musical ...

Composers Concordance has announced that the CompCord Polka Band, will be the closing event of the 14th Annual CompCord ...

There’s something inherently joyful about polka dots—a welcome antidote to the minimalism that has dominated in recent years. Still, for those who lean toward a more understated aesthetic, there’s a ...

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Are polka dots your favorite pattern? Well, then you've come to the right place! But even if they're not, you can't deny that a good polka dot design adds a certain whimsical and fun aspect to ...

Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present. By Alex Williams Ken Peplowski, a critically acclaimed jazz clarinetist ...

NANTICOKE — John “Stanky” Stankovic, the legendary Northeast Pennsylvania polka king who entertained millions of people from around the world for decades, died on Christmas Day. He was 89. Stankovic, ...

A Florida middle school was locked down last week after an AI security system called ZeroEyes mistook a clarinet for a gun, reviving criticism that AI may not be worth the high price schools pay for ...

We may love them now, but polka dots used to have a serious image problem. Before the Industrial Revolution brought about machines that could produce the pattern in a symmetrical and uniform way, any ...

LONDON — Music met medicine when a patient played a clarinet solo as she underwent brain surgery for Parkinson's disease and proved that the treatment was working in real time. Subscribe to read this ...

The 61st Thanksgiving Polka Weekend, hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame will once again serve as a showcase for Cleveland-Style and Slovenian polka. It will take place Nov.