Who Likes a Good Polka?
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Some of my favorite channels on Direct TV is the Discovery Channel, Nickelodeon, The Weather Channel, and Food Network. Then I found the RFD channel and I'm really digging it.
Not only does it have antique tractors and farm reports and stuff that deals with agriculture but you can catch a couple of quilting shows and the Big Joe Polka Show!
Now I like a Polka like the next guy and I really get a kick out of watching this fellow and all of the groups he has on there. Big Joe is a hoot and a half!! Since my moms side of the family was full blooded German, I remember my grand parents listening to it all of the time along with Lawrence Welk, big band and Jazz.
So the question is how many of us really ever listen to Polka or is it a dying genre of music.
Billy
Not only does it have antique tractors and farm reports and stuff that deals with agriculture but you can catch a couple of quilting shows and the Big Joe Polka Show!
Now I like a Polka like the next guy and I really get a kick out of watching this fellow and all of the groups he has on there. Big Joe is a hoot and a half!! Since my moms side of the family was full blooded German, I remember my grand parents listening to it all of the time along with Lawrence Welk, big band and Jazz.
So the question is how many of us really ever listen to Polka or is it a dying genre of music.
Billy
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Originally Posted by Chasing Hawk
LOL
That's our "Club Quilting Bus". And the first person to put in a disco ball gets their quilting needle taken away...lol
That's our "Club Quilting Bus". And the first person to put in a disco ball gets their quilting needle taken away...lol
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I grew up with the polka. Every Sunday after Mass that is what we listened to while fixing dinner. My mom taught all of us. She was about 79 the last time she polkaed. I think that's the last time she did the Irish jig, too. At weddings around here, it wasn't really "official" unless you had polka music. By the way, you aint seen nothing until you've seen 2 6 year olds litteraly flying around the floor doing the Polish hop. It's something to watch.
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Honey, I can tell we are both from the good old German midwest! Every wedding I've ever attended has to have a polka! My DH doesn't polka so I have to recruit someone to polka with me! Have to laugh becasue I'm only in my early 30's! DH thinks I'm nuts! :0)"Roll out the barrel..."
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We still have polka music here in the Buffalo, NY area. There's a sizeable Polish ethnic group here. It's a real challenge pronouncing those surnames... but we're pretty good at it!
In our town, I don't think it was the Germans who hung onto the polka tradition. I think it was the Poles.
The biggest local German tradition is the roast beef on kimmelweck sandwich.
In our town, I don't think it was the Germans who hung onto the polka tradition. I think it was the Poles.
The biggest local German tradition is the roast beef on kimmelweck sandwich.
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