After his show airs on WPNA 1490 AM Sunday morning, Keith Stras is hanging up his headphones and turning off his microphone a final time at his in-home studio in Elgin and retiring from the local ...

Tony Petkovsek is to Northeastern Ohio polka fans what Dick Goddard is to weather followers. Both have been on the air for 50 years, and both have loyal listeners and viewers, but Petkovsek is ...

CAMERON — On Sunday, Dec. 28, Alfred Vrazel will do something he has done nearly every week since 1955. He cues up polka music, greets his listeners and fills the afternoon airwaves with the sound ...

Joseph W. Timmer, known to many legions of Lehigh Valley polka fans as “Jolly Joe,” has rolled out the last dance tune on his Bethlehem radio station, WGPA-AM. Confined to a nursing home with dementia ...

OLYPHANT – Every week from a home studio in her home, Natalie Gubala-Magdon brings a traditional style of music to the public in a new, technologically advanced way. Her devotion to polka runs so deep ...

Keith G. Stras is on a mission to save polka, which is to say he has his work cut out for him. The demographic outlook for the music is bleak: young people are not embracing polka, and as for the old ...