{"id":78116,"date":"2017-02-24T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78116"},"modified":"2017-02-23T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T03:21:51","slug":"fritzs-polka-band-garners-international-award-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=78116","title":{"rendered":"Fritz’s Polka Band Garners International Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured is the CD cover of the 2013 recording, \u201cThe WSKG Sessions\u201d by Fritz\u2019s Polka Band, which earned a nomination in the Best Polka Album category by the Just Plain Folks Music Organization. Also attached is a PDF version of the press release below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fritz’s Polka Band (Sponsored by Coldcock Whiskey)<\/em> from Verona, NY has been nominated for the 2017 Just Plain Folks Music\u00a0Awards by the Just Plain Folks Music Organization. After 18 months of screening 17,400 albums and 240,000 songs the JPFMO announced the nominations for both Albums and Songs in over 70 genres of music.<\/p>\n

Fritz\u2019s Polka Band (FPB) has two songs:\u00a0Polka Time In The Morning (written by the late Fred Scherz Sr. and his son, Fritz Scherz) <\/em>and The Party Continues (written by Fritz Scherz<\/em>) from FPB\u2019s 2013 live release “The WSKG Sessions” <\/em>in the Best Polka Song category, which contains only 19 other songs.<\/p>\n

In addition, “The\u00a0<\/em>WSKG Sessions”<\/em> is nominated in the Best Polka Album category, which contains only eight other album nominations.\u00a0Final voting will\u00a0be done by music industry professionals, musicians, and songwriter peers from the JPFMO. The JPFMO Awards Show will take place\u00a0April 29th<\/sup> in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n

“The guys in FPB are excited by these nominations,”\u00a0said Fritz Scherz, band leader of\u00a0Fritz’s Polka Band.\u00a0 “It’s a complete\u00a0surprise, especially given the level of competition and number of entries that were submitted.\u00a0 We had hoped we might get one\u00a0nomination, but to get three is great!\u00a0 We owe\u00a0a huge thanks\u00a0to the legion of fans we’ve made over the years, the FPB Fan Club, as well\u00a0as our former sponsor, Jagermeister and our current sponsor, Coldcock Whiskey.\u00a0 Plus, a special thanks to all the media that have\u00a0covered FPB over the years! On a personal note, I\u2019m extra thrilled that one of the songs I had helped my Dad write is one of our tunes nominated in the Best Polka Song category. Writing songs with him was always special, and I continue to miss him dearly.”<\/p>\n

Fritz’s Polka Band has been performing for 38 years and made history in 1999 by becoming the first polka band to play at a Woodstock Festival in Rome, NY.\u00a0 FPB has made 18 recordings and appears\u00a0on “The Manchurian Candidate”<\/em>DVD, released in 2004.<\/p>\n

In 2010, FPB was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Hall of Fame.\u00a0In 2011, FPB had two songs (Grandparent\u2019s Polka<\/em> and Here Is\u00a0<\/em>Fritz\u2019s Polka Band<\/em>) included in two episodes of the TV show, \u2018Breaking Bad\u2019. In 2013, FPB released their 18th<\/sup>recording, a double live\u00a0CD entitled, \u201cThe WSKG Sessions\u201d. <\/em>In 2016, Fritz Scherz was nominated for a national award by the Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of\u00a0Fame.<\/p>\n

For more\u00a0JPFMO details, all nominations are posted at: www.JPFolks.com<\/a><\/u>. For more info on FPB,visit the band\u2019s website:\u00a0www.fritzspolkaband.com<\/a>, the FPB Facebook page at: www.facebook.com\/fritzspolkaband<\/a>, the FPB Twitter feed at:\u00a0www.twitter.com\/fritzspolkaband<\/a> or call: (315) 363-3509<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fritz’s Polka Band (Sponsored by Coldcock Whiskey) from Verona, NY has been nominated for the 2017 Just Plain Folks Music\u00a0Awards by the Just Plain Folks Music Organization. After 18 months of screening 17,400 albums and 240,000 songs the JPFMO announced the nominations for both Albums and Songs in over 70 genres of music. Fritz\u2019s Polka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78116","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=78116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}