With his trademark albino hair, dark sunglasses and turtleneck sweater, Heino stiffly takes the Oktoberfest stage at Alpine Village near Torrance. This year’s emcee initially has little luck ...

Rose Dick has a simple explanation for joining the German American Children`s Chorus in 1939. ”Because my parents made me,” said Dick, who was eight when she began singing German folk songs with the ...

When Sarajane Williams of Macungie was a little girl, her father would sing old Pennsylvania German folk songs to her. But when she grew up, Williams a professional harpist, couldn’t find the music ...