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Weekend Recap From March 28-30
in MN & WI |
On behalf
of Ted, Mollie & Dave, we want to thank all of you that we saw
this past weekend for our first appearances in Minnesota and
Wisconsin!
After getting caught in a bit of a snow/ice/slush storm on our way
out west Thursday night, we finally made it up to Stillwater, MN
for the Minnesota State Polka Festival. We were very pleased with
the crowd and the ballroom is really set up well! Lots of room to
dance on an authentic wood dance floor, plenty of seating and a
huge stage for the bands! Thanks again to Julianne Mossak and all
the crew for bringing us out to MN and thanks for your wonderful
hospitality! It was nice to see the crew from Polkavideos.com
/PAC come out and support the dance! |
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We left early Saturday morning for Milwaukee, and played saturday
evening at the K of C hall in South Milwaukee. Betzel and Rosie put
on one heck of a good dance! They should be commended for their many
years of hard work putting together dances for a lot of different
bands. The dance floor was filled the entire evening with the
capacity crowd in attendance, and the bus group from Chicago with
Keith Stras sure kept the spirit high! It was nice to see Janine
Adamczyk from "Polish Fest" and some fans of the late Marv
Herzog band as well as a lot of the folks that usually support the
Polish bands that perform in the area! We were especially surprised
to have some fans of ours from Michigan make the drive all the way to
Milwaukee, just so they could hear us for one evening! Simply
remarkable!!! Special thanks to our gracious hosts Dennis and Maryann
Gehring for the wonderful meals and for putting us up for the night,
(even though it was a VERY short night!)
Sunday morning, we hit the road around 6:30AM and headed up to
Wausau. We had the pleasure to visit with Jeff Heinz on his Sunday
morning polka show on WDEZ. What a great program, and great promoter
for polkas in central Wisconsin! After doing a little promotion for
the dance, we continued on to Bullshooter's in Weston, WI. This place
is REALLY great! For any of you who have not been there yet,
Bullshooter's is a country bar, with a large stage and dance floor,
plenty of seating, two bars open all afternoon, a mechanical bull....
LOADED with atmosphere! I understand that they've been running polka
dances there on Sunday afternoons for quite some time, and after
talking to the owners, they're going to try to remain diligent and
keep bringing in more polka bands! If you have not been there yet, we
highly recommend this place!!!! The most unbelieveable part: NO
CHARGE TO GET IN THE DOOR!
The crowd on Sunday was absolutely UNREAL! We were told by the owners
that this may have been the second largest crowd they've ever had for
a polka dance! It was nice to see the Raflik's from the Milwaukee
area, all our friends from the Pulaski area, Roger Kemp, the guys from
Polish Connection, Neil Zunker (and his wife) and Jeff Heinz from "The
Music Connection"..... there are so many more that I'm sure I'm
missing here, but please know your support was appreciated! It was
also nice to see fans from multiple genres of polkas come out for the
afternoon and have a party TOGETHER!!!!! I know a fair amount of
people from "the Dutchmen style world" came out to see Mollie, plus
some Marv Herzog fans, and to top it off, a lot of the Polish style
fans that Mollie and I have come to know through the years.
Once again, thanks to EVERYONE for your support this past weekend! We
could not have imagined when we left home that the 1800 miles we put
on this weekend, would have such a great pay-off: having so much fun
with so many of you! Thank-you, and we look forward to doing it
again sometime soon! |
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Preparing for our second recording & expanding our schedule!
Bring SQUEEZEBOX To a Town Near You!
Over the next couple
months, SQUEEZEBOX will be hard at work once again in the studio,
working on our SECOND recording.... (which is yet to be titled).
Stay on the lookout for this much anticipated release from SQUEEZEBOX!
Also, we're excited to
hit the road and meet some new friends and perform for some new
festivals this year. You will find us at
Milwaukee Polish
Fest and the
Ironworld Polka Fest in June, the
Hamler Summerfest in
July,
Summer Music Fest in August,
Chippewa Falls Oktoberfest and
Frankenmuth Oktoberfest in September, and
Pillar
Polkabration in October! Yes... we'll be covering some
ground this year! BUT WE'RE STILL LOOKING TO ADD SOME MORE DATES
TO OUR SCHEDULE! If you know of a festival or event in your area
that is looking for live music, please feel free to pass along our
contact info! We welcome any opportunity to perform in new areas
and new venues! Click HERE for our
contact information! |
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SQUEEZEBOX Announces release
of "SQUEEZE ME"
SQUEEZEBOX is proud to
announce the release of their debut recording, entitled "Squeeze Me"!
This new recording has a wide of variety of music, including 8 Polkas,
2 Waltzes, and 6 foxtrots/two-steps.
CLICK HERE to visit our recordings page, where you can download
samples of the songs and place your order for your own copy! |
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SQUEEZEBOX
is a live band, based in NW Ohio, that specializes in multiple genres of
music including polkas, waltzes, fox-trots, 2-steps, big band, swing,
square dances, and figure dances. With over 60 years combined
experience between the core members of the band, we're able to accommodate
nearly everyone's requests at our performances, and strive to please
everybody in attendance, both on and off the dance floor! With our diverse play list and solid
vocals in English,
Czech, German, and Polish, we are able to adapt to any venue, ranging from
town festivals, polka festivals, German festivals and Oktoberfests to
weddings, anniversary parties, church festivals and music festivals. |
SQUEEZEBOX began originally
in the late 1990's under a different name, known at that time as "The
Bratwurst Boys", which was a part time spin-off band consisting of members
from the Grammy Nominated "Toledo Polkamotion." However, as the band
and members evolved through the years, and we continually added new
material to our play list, it was evident that the name we were using
unfortunately had us pigeon-holed as a "polka only" band.... We can
most certainly play polkas and we love to play polkas.... AND MUCH
MORE THAN JUST POLKAS.... hence, the name change.
SQUEEZEBOX is made up of
three solid musicians with extensive backgrounds in the performing field:
Ted Lange, Mollie Busta, and Dave Burner. Check back soon to be able to
check out everyone's biography once that information has been added to the
site! |
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