Meet the 'polka dancing pirate' getting people on their feet in the US

Jimi Jimi Jimi started life as James Parker, a self-described blue-collar guy from northeast Minneapolis who made cabinets ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Word of the Week: Polka, Dance craze has disputed origins

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In the 1960s, it was the twist; in the ’20s, the Charleston. But these fads were mere blips on ...
Wichita Eagle

Some say the polka should be Kansas’ state dance. What about the Time Warp?

It may not take oom-pah-pah-precedence in Topeka this session, but some Kansans want lawmakers to declare the polka the state’s official dance. Senate Bill 158 continues an effort introduced last year ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

Leader briefs: folk-dance series, polka night, deer hunts, masonic breakfast, cookie walk

O'Malley's Luck plays tonight for the Illowa Community Folk Dance Series. The 14th season of traditional dances continues at 7:30 p.m. the first Friday of each month in Singing Bird Lodge, Black Hawk ...
Brainerd Dispatch

Polka folks: Birds of a feather dance together at the county fair

Jud and Cathy Murray embraced as they skillfully swirled among other dance pairs Wednesday at the Crow Wing County Fair. The Brainerd couple nearing a half-century of marriage began dancing together ...