Charlie Braunreiter and I are several generations apart but we can agree on one thing: I don’t know much about old-time polka music and he doesn’t know much about music past the early 1960s.

The polka, a lively couples dance in ... The Dutchman style was the popular sound then at old-time dances. According to Norm, the bands he heard didn't sound too spontaneous; perched behind ...

“I’ve been playing polka music since I was 14 years old,” he said ... “That was me at one time, and I have great memories of other bands letting me fill in along the way, sit in and ...

Steve Novosel, while growing up in Murrysville, took up the instrument at 9 years old. Both were raised in families where polka music was a regular part of the family soundtrack, and both are part ...