Since Dr. Demento began playing his parodies on his syndicated radio nearly 50 years ago, “Weird Al” Yankovic has become a ...

I like performing, which is why I’ve done a lot more tours than I have written new songs,” Yankovic, 65, says via Zoom from ...

The Polka King Czech Republic. There have been plenty of significant Polka artists, including Frankie Yankovic and Weird Al Yankovic, who are surprisingly not related. The Polka King is a ...

Sun 4/27 @ 1-6PM Cleveland polka King Frankie Yankovic died in 1998 at the age of 83. Canadian polka king Walter Ostanek, who, like Yankovic, is a specialist in Slovenian or Cleveland-style polka, is ...

In Slavic and German communities along the U.S. “polka circuit,” nobody has to be told about Frankie Yankovic and his five-man polka band. In a year they play as many as 275 one-night stands ...

It’ll be two days of nonstop music ending each day with all-night jams in various hotel rooms starting at midnight, But if you can’t keep your eyes open that late, don’t worry: most of the big names ...

Solkela can cover every artist from Frankie Yankovic to Shakira. By 2017, he told his college paper, he could play 14,000 songs.

Well, obviously Frankie Yankovic (“America’s Polka King”), no relation. Myron Floren, who was the lead accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show. Famous Canadian accordion player, Walter ...

Well, obviously Frankie Yankovic (“America’s Polka King”), no relation. Myron Floren, who was the lead accordion player on The Lawrence Welk Show. Famous Canadian accordion player, Walter ...

On the tenth anniversary of ‘Mandatory Fun,’ ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic takes on Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Cardi B (with their blessing) but gets ghosted by SZA.