{"id":63195,"date":"2015-08-06T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63195"},"modified":"2015-08-05T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:13:04","slug":"fritzs-polka-band-to-perform-at-largest-free-festival-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63195","title":{"rendered":"Fritz\u2019s Polka Band to Perform at Largest Free Festival in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_63196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63196\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FPB-4-6-15-Frank-Fritz-Mike-Gabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63196\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FPB-4-6-15-Frank-Fritz-Mike-Gabe.jpg\" alt=\"Fritz\u2019s Polka Band from left are Frank Nelson, Fritz Scherz, Mike Faraino, and Gabe Vaccaro.  \" width=\"400\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FPB-4-6-15-Frank-Fritz-Mike-Gabe.jpg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FPB-4-6-15-Frank-Fritz-Mike-Gabe-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/FPB-4-6-15-Frank-Fritz-Mike-Gabe-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fritz\u2019s Polka Band from left are Frank Nelson, Fritz Scherz, Mike Faraino, and Gabe Vaccaro.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(Verona, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band from\u00a0Verona, will return to Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pa on Saturday, Aug. 8. Fritz\u2019s Polka Band (FPB) will perform on the Festplatz Stage from\u00a0noon to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Musikfest is the largest free festival in the United States. Typically, more than 900,000 people attend this annual festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guys in Fritz\u2019s Polka Band look forward to returning to Musikfest,\u201d said Fritz Scherz, band leader of\u00a0Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band.\u00a0\u201cWe were in awe the first time we played at this festival as there were so many people! A neat thing about this festival is that there are so many different musical genres represented and the audience welcomes it. To think a little band like mine out of Verona, NY gets booked to play at the largest free festival in the United States is pretty cool! I\u2019m glad the promoters like my band\u2019s eclectic musical style and I want to thank them once again for having my band return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more info on FPB\u2019s performance at Musikfest, including directions to the venue, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musikfest.org\/event\/581\/fritzs-polka-band\" target=\"_blank\">www.musikfest.org\/event\/581\/fritzs-polka-band<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Verona, NY \u2013 Aug. 2015) Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band from\u00a0Verona, will return to Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pa on Saturday, Aug. 8. Fritz\u2019s Polka Band (FPB) will perform on the Festplatz Stage from\u00a0noon to 4 p.m. Musikfest is the largest free festival in the United States. Typically, more than 900,000 people attend this annual festival. \u201cThe guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63195","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=63195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}