Goose
Well-known Member
Every one else focuses on tractors, the accordion jamboree is my favorite part of the fair. It usually runs about an hour and a half with good old time polka music.
You can't see the tuba players face, but I think he's played his tube with every polka band in the east half of Nebraska, maybe beyond. And he does vocals in English, German, and Czech, sometimes all three in the same number.
My sister used to play her accordion in this event, but she moved 75 miles west to Grand Island, and seems to be too busy to come anymore. She's an 83 year old widow, and gives piano lessons, accordion lessons, plays her accordion in a polka band when she has time and the inclination, she's substitute organist for several churches, goes around to the Veteran's Home in Grand Island and nursing homes both in Grand Island and surrounding towns and plays her accordion to entertain the residents, and maybe some other things I haven't heard of. She's probably older than a lot of the residents she entertains at the Vet's Home and the nursing homes. Like I said, she's 83 and I don't know if I'd want to try to keep up with her.
You can't see the tuba players face, but I think he's played his tube with every polka band in the east half of Nebraska, maybe beyond. And he does vocals in English, German, and Czech, sometimes all three in the same number.
My sister used to play her accordion in this event, but she moved 75 miles west to Grand Island, and seems to be too busy to come anymore. She's an 83 year old widow, and gives piano lessons, accordion lessons, plays her accordion in a polka band when she has time and the inclination, she's substitute organist for several churches, goes around to the Veteran's Home in Grand Island and nursing homes both in Grand Island and surrounding towns and plays her accordion to entertain the residents, and maybe some other things I haven't heard of. She's probably older than a lot of the residents she entertains at the Vet's Home and the nursing homes. Like I said, she's 83 and I don't know if I'd want to try to keep up with her.
