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This page is dedicated to stories and articles published by main stream media outlets pertaining to polka music.

Should you come across any additional items, please contact the IPA at:  ipapolkas@gmail.com and we will add the publication to our list.

Let’s keep polkas . . .

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IPA is Virtually Flawless in Labor Day Presentation – By Larry Trojak Polish American Journal

 

Chardon Polka Band – Cleveland Plain Dealer article on Polka culture  & diversity

 

Mollie Busta Lange –  Polka Workshop at Park  Elementary School, Cross Plains, WI:

 

Keith Stras Retirement from Polka Broadcasting in Chicago:

      Chicago Tribune

      Daily Herald

 

Festival Friday – Honor for Polka Hall of Famer Chet Schafer

 

Forgotten Buffalo – 1965 I.P.A. Convention

 

The Almost-Secret Polka Life of Randy Koslosky

 

Hormel Pepperoni One-Man Band

 

WMUA cuts Focus program; polka donors asking for refund

 

Preserving Polkas at Bowling Green State University

 

Song Dancing its Way to Official Illinois Polka

 

Alfred Vrazel:  Humble Man with a Love of Polka – Polka Beat 1/14/2015

 

* Parties With Polka Dot the Southland – Southtown Star  11/30/2014

 

*Mollie B on ESPN

 

* Bolingbrook Performing Arts Center Hosts Polka Hall of Fame Inductee John “Foo” Furmaniak – Chicago Tribune  8/4/2014

 

* Chicagoan Eddie Blazonczyk Sr. spread polka around the globe

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