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The Polkaholics® will play on Sunday from 6:00pm - 8:30pm at The MidAmerica Stage.
The Copernicus Foundation has hosted the Taste of Polonia over Labor Day weekend for the last 27 years.
This festival is the Foundations primary fundraiser.
Over 1.5 million people have attended the event during that period.
This year the festival will be held from August 31st, 2007 through September 3rd.
Come on out for great food and great music and great BEER!
30 years ago today Elvis Presley died on the crapper while reading one of his favorite books: The Scientific Search For The Face Of Jesus by Frank Adams. I was 8 years old and I was actually listening to an Elvis record that my mother had given to me a few weeks before as I was learning to play the guitar and would strum along to Elvis records. I was pretty bummed out! For the next- what seemed like 30 years- it was nothing but Elvis everywhere you turned. Seems he is more popular dead than he was when he was alive.
Friday August 17th 9pm, FREE
The Polkaholics & Ceann
Lincoln Square Lanes CHICAGO
4874 N. Lincoln, 773-561-8191
To honor the one-year anniversary of Li'l Wally's death, The Polkaholics are hosting a special FREE show. Polka King Li'l Wally, who died on August 17 2006, was renowned for his special drumming and singing style. He revolutionized polka in the 1950s and 1960s by slowing it down to a danceable tempo, which became known as the "Chicago Style" polka sound. Though he retired to Florida in later years, The Polkaholics brought him back to Chicago for several memorable shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Now, to honor his legacy and keep his music very much alive, The Polkaholics will play many of his songs on this one-year anniversary of his death. Also, Li'l Wally memorabilia will be on display and raffled off to lucky attendees.
So lollapalooza is this weekend in my home town of Chicago, and while there are a few bands that I would not mind seeing, I've no interest in being gouged for everything from water to toilet paper. This not about the music- it's about corporations making money. If this truly was an American Music Festival devoted to -just that- MUSIC then I think it should be free.
Living here I have been bombarded with advertisements and the sponsors' names have always been larger than the names of the performers, and that's sad isn't it?
There is no such thing as "alternative music" today, because as Eric Bachman so succinctly said it with Archer's of Loaf, "The Underground is over crowded". Let's keep corporations out of music.
$850 for a VIP ticket? That's insane.
Check out a Paul Konrad/WGN News segment created for his Millennium Mementos that aired on NYE 1999 featuring the original line-up of The Polkaholics® !! Not only do you get to see Dandy Don at his (cough cough) real job but you'll see Polka King Little Wally whooping it up with the boys as well!
Arlington Heights Summer Concert Series, Harmony Park, Arlington Heights, 7-9pm
We've never played here before so please come out and support us! It's FREE
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