Chris Bogdon was in first grade in his native Carnegie when he started taking accordion lessons. Steve Novosel, while growing up in Murrysville, took up the instrument at 9 years old. Both were raised ...

Rex Taneri and his Orchestra provided polka-style music, bringing some members of the audience to their feet to dance or sing along. Taneri of Canfield, a Warren native, said the band lost 17 ...

Today, Joe Jr. and his son Mike are both part of the house band at Hofbrauhaus in Pittsburgh’s South Side, playing old and new polka music for crowds of all ages with several groups housed at ...

So a few weeks before Christmas, the group visits the square to help local businesses ... playing of Polka carols by this mash-up of musicians, each with their own booklet of music and a different ...

The film shows Lewan’s rise to local stardom in 1990s Pennsylvania, how he ran a Ponzi scheme fuelled with money from his (largely elderly) Polish American fans... and his subsequent five-year jail ...