Thirty years ago, on 4/21/94, polka was adopted as the official Wisconsin State Dance. There will be all sorts of polka events throughout the state this month to celebrate (including the big Polka Party on Pinckney on 4/18), and tomorrow’s Back to the Country program adds to the polkabration!
It seems to me, there was a time when nearly every country band included polkas in their sets and tomorrow morning I’ll be playing three hours of my very favorites: Hot guitar polkas by Merle Travis, Joe Maphis, Chet Atkins, Hank Garland, Don Rich, Jimmy Bryant, Roy Clark, George Barnes, Biller & Wakefield, T.K. Smith, and many more! Vocal polkas about baseball, cocker spaniels, apple pie, beer, and marijuana! Swing Billy polkas from King Records! Yodeling polkas! Rockabilly polkas! One-man band polkas!
It’ll be a three-hour polkabilly extravaganza from 9am-noon (CST)! Tune in via 89.9fm in Southern Wisconsin or stream via wortfm.org and don’t forget your dancing shoes!
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