Like many men his age, Andy Kochanski always thought about owning a bar. When out with his friends for a night on the town, the born-and-bred South Sider would take it all in, thinking about what he ...

Erwin Suess got his first squeezebox when he was 6, and when the plowing and milking were done on the family farm near Sleepy Eye, he’d curl up and play along with the polka likes of Whoopee John and ...

Art Altenburg's Concertina Bar drew hundreds of polka dancers every weekend. When Andy Kochanski bought the bar just over four years ago, he reopened as Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall - a classic ...

If there's a polka heaven — and why wouldn't there be? — then Concertina Millie is now up there playing "Alley Cat" on her squeezebox nicknamed "Baby." A proud member of both the Polka and World ...

NEW ULM — A longtime hotbed for concertina and polka music, New Ulm held its first World Concertina Congress Saturday. The annual congress and hall of fame induction devoted to the traditional German ...

MILWAUKEE — Three nights a week at Art’s Concertina Bar, you can step back to a time when couples went out to dance the polka and listen to the sounds of a concertina. But now Art Altenburg wants to ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Polish pride is on full display Monday night at Kochanski's Concertina Beer Hall in Milwaukee. They're celebrating what's called Dyngus Day. Dyngus Day is the annual post-Lenten ...

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 ...

Three nights a week at Art’s Concertina Bar you can step back to a time when couples went out to dance the polka and listen to the sounds of a concertina. But now owner Art Altenburg wants to sell his ...

NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (WCCO) -- Whoever invented the polka is responsible for a lot of happy moments. That toe-tapping music was introduced in Prague -- in what used to be Czechoslovakia -- nearly two ...