It was not the sort of request that I expected to hear from our 13-year-old daughter, Emma, but at least it was one that I could grant. “I want to see someone polka dance,” is what Emma said. Forget ...

SHERMAN OAKS – Kenny Kotwitz sipped his drink and slipped back into an accordion memory 50 years in the making. He was just a teenager from Milwaukee, playing squeezebox in a combo and getting work ...

Carol Knish of Munster has proven she can polka with the best of them. It's been nearly a decade since a touring tribute to the legendary Lawrence Welk waltzed anywhere near our readership. In October ...

In a letter that signs off with, ”Musically yours, Lawrence Welk,” the reclusive former bandleader agrees there is one dance that all taxpayers should sit out. Welk`s message, distributed Monday by ...