Kevin Adams – Living Category – Inducted 2014

Kevin Adams is an accomplished musician, composer, producer and recording artist, having recorded on Trumpet, Clarinet, Guitar and Piano.  His work is featured on over 40 recordings of which 11 have received Grammy® nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences.  Kevin has been performing polka music across the country for nearly 40 years with numerous nationally touring polka bands including lengthy stints of extensive road work with the band of IPA Hall…

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Tom “Tommy” Altenburg – Pioneer Category – Inducted August 2012

  Tommy was born and raised on the north side of Chicago near Humboldt Park.  He attended Bernard Moos Grade School and Lane Technical High School.  Shortly after graduating from high school, he served an apprenticeship in the lithography trade, became a journeyman and spent most of his adult life employed in that field.   Tommy’s love for polka music developed and nurtured while still in grade school listening to polka artists and DJs, namely…

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Steve Adamczyk – Living Category – Inducted 1975

  Steve Adamczyk was born in Chicago, the eldest of four children of the late Stephen and Lottie (nee Kazanecki) Adamczyk.  His parents introduced Steve to music at an early age, enrolling him as a student of piano, his first teachers being the Felician Sisters of SS. Peter and Paul Parish.  When a school was organized, Steve turned his attention to the saxophone and clarinet.   When in their teens, Steve and a few neighborhood…

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