{"id":104352,"date":"2019-07-29T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104352"},"modified":"2019-08-15T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:00:44","slug":"fritzs-polka-band-returns-to-the-largest-free-festival-in-united-states-for-fifth-year-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=104352","title":{"rendered":"Fritz’s Polka Band returns to the largest free festival in United States for fifth year in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pictured from left are Fritz Scherz, Gabe Vaccaro, Mike Faraino and Frank Nelson. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Fritz’s Polka Band from Verona returns to Musikfest in\nBethlehem, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 4. FPB will perform on the Festplatz Stage from\nnoon to 3:30 p.m. Musikfest is the largest free festival in the United States; last\nyear more than 900,000 people attended this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe guys in Fritz\u2019s Polka Band are anxious to return to\nMusikfest for the fifth year in a row,\u201d said Fritz Scherz, band leader of\nFritz’s Polka Band. \u201cEach time we\u2019ve played this festival, the crowds have been\nreally big! A neat thing about this festival is that there are so many\ndifferent musical genres and the audience welcomes it. It\u2019s so thrilling to get\nbooked to play at the largest free festival in the United States! I\u2019m glad the\npromoters like my band\u2019s eclectic musical style and I want to thank them once\nagain for having my band return.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oct. 14, 2018, marked the 40th anniversary of Fritz’s Polka\nBand. FPB made history in 1999 by becoming the first polka band to play at a\nWoodstock Festival.  FPB appears on\n“The Manchurian Candidate” DVD, released in 2004. FPB was inducted into\nthe Syracuse Area Music Hall of Fame in 2010. \nIn 2011, FPB had two songs \u2018Grandparent\u2019s Polka\u2019 and \u2018Here Is Fritz\u2019s\nPolka Band\u2019) included in two episodes of the TV show, \u2018Breaking Bad.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, FPB released their 18th recording, a double live CD\nentitled, \u201cThe WSKG Sessions.\u201d In August 2018, FPB and each band member were\nagain nominated for national awards by the Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Fritz\u2019s Polka Band\u2019s performance at\nMusikfest, including directions to the venue, visit musikfest.org\/event\/8401\/fritzs-polka-band.\nFor more details on FPB, visit fritzspolkaband.com, facebook.com\/fritzspolkaband,\ntwitter.com\/fritzspolkaband or instagram.com\/fritzspolkaband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fritz’s Polka Band from Verona returns to Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pa., Sunday, Aug. 4. FPB will perform on the Festplatz Stage from noon to 3:30 p.m. Musikfest is the largest free festival in the United States; last year more than 900,000 people attended this event. \u201cThe guys in Fritz\u2019s Polka Band are anxious to return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-r96","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/FPB-promo-photo-Fritz-Gabe-Mike-Frank.jpg?fit=3586%2C2018&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}