tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post8165941531798310240..comments2007-12-10T09:55:39.405-08:00Mark Rubinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545629994668330466noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-27518871481161203242007-12-10T09:55:00.000-08:002007-12-10T09:55:00.000-08:00Idunno about Texas, but the last time I blew through Chicago, polka and its universe of Mexican variants were doing just fine, particularly in the "Czech-Mex" corridor on the West Side. I visited a polka hall in Milwaukee a few years ago, though, and it was looking pretty creaky.Poppahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02147146321519383931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-81821036340269392962007-12-07T06:22:00.000-08:002007-12-07T06:22:00.000-08:00Central NC: last night played some fiddle tunes with a 40 year age range of players (youngest was 30). Learned some new songs, never recorded, that were directly heard from the original fiddlers and banjo players. This is about 50 years after any commercial venues for this music up and died in the area. Can't go a week here without an occassion to play. <BR/><BR/>To me, its the intergenerational community and memories that keep it real as opposed to simply memorizing a bunch of notes. Maybe there's hope?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14935596.post-57005490829957078832007-12-04T07:06:00.000-08:002007-12-04T07:06:00.000-08:00Great post. Sad.<BR/><BR/>Up here in the DC area we are losing the last real Polka Palace in the region come the new year. Who couldn't love a place called "Blob's"<BR/>http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-te.md.ar.blobs20oct20,0,7196585.story?page=2Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com