{"id":63780,"date":"2015-09-28T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63780"},"modified":"2015-09-26T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T17:12:38","slug":"members-of-fritzs-polka-earn-national-award-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=63780","title":{"rendered":"Members of Fritz\u2019s Polka Earn National Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3165Fritz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63781\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3165Fritz-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"MABL3165Fritz\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3165Fritz-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3165Fritz-150x137.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3165Fritz.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pictured are Fritz Scherz playing accordion and Gabe Vaccaro playing bass guitar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Verona, NY \u2013 Sept. 2015) Fritz Scherz and Gabe Vaccaro, (remaining founding members of Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band)\u00a0from\u00a0Verona have been nominated for national awards by the Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame (CSPHOF) in Euclid, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz (accordionist\/vocalist) and Gabe (bassist\/vocalist) have both been nominated in the \u201cMusician of the Year\u201d category, while Fritz is also nominated in the \u201cVocalist of the Year\u201d category.\u00a0 The winners will be announced during the CSPHOF Awards Show, being held Saturday Nov. 28\u00a0at the Cleveland Downtown Marriott Hotel as part of the annual Thanksgiving Polka Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3004Gabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-63782\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3004Gabe-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"MABL3004Gabe\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3004Gabe-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3004Gabe-124x150.jpg 124w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/MABL3004Gabe.jpg 330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe members of FPB were already looking forward to playing again in Cleveland on Nov. 27\u00a0and 28 as we had such a great time there last year,\u201d said Fritz Scherz, band leader of\u00a0Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band.\u00a0 \u201cNow, with Gabe and I nominated for national awards again, this has raised our anticipation for Thanksgiving Weekend tenfold. To think we get to play twice this weekend and attend the awards show as nominees is a fantastic feeling. We encourage our friends to join the CSPHOF soon and vote for us, as the voting deadline is Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band has been performing for over 36 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured are Fritz Scherz playing accordion and Gabe Vaccaro playing bass guitar. (Verona, NY \u2013 Sept. 2015) Fritz Scherz and Gabe Vaccaro, (remaining founding members of Fritz&#8217;s Polka Band)\u00a0from\u00a0Verona have been nominated for national awards by the Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame (CSPHOF) in Euclid, Ohio. Fritz (accordionist\/vocalist) and Gabe (bassist\/vocalist) have both been nominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63780","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=63780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}