Polka music will be in abundance the last full weekend of July when parishioners of St. Mark’s Catholic Church celebrate their German heritage at Julifest. The annual summer festival takes place ...

River City Baskapelle, a West Bend-based band, is slated to play German music from 11 a.m. to noon. Copper Box, an Oshkosh-based, multi-genre quartet that plays polka, rock and blues will play ...

Alpine music — and more specifically Polka and Oberkrainer — are considered ancient German. But what many people don't know is that the origin is not in the Bavarian or Swiss Alps but in Slovenia.

A Catholic with roots in Slovenia, she found connections between klezmer music and the ... combined a Jewish polka lyric with a Bavarian folk melody. Der Neue Tag, a German daily, once called ...