If this is a polka party, there must be beer, right? . . . Beer Barrel Polka. Roll Out the Barrel. Not quite. Walt Groller, Lehigh Valley’s polka master, accepted one of Austria’s highe… ...

Groller was inducted into the Polka Music Hall of Fame in Chicago in 1986. His band has recorded about 20 albums. “We do our own style of music, but we do a lot of Austrian music,” Groller said.

The Austrian folk band Die Knoedel plays the Knoedel Polka, and the Jet Polka. And we take you into the Alps to meet up with a "Lonely Goatherd," from The Sound of Music.

Happily, Austria returned in 2007, and Global Kryner took the result on the chin and have continued to take their particular brand of pop-punk-polka to the world.

Mountain noise 02/18/2011 Austrian duo Attwenger has been chivvying Alpine music for two decades and now, once and for all, is making a clean sweep of cheesy Alps clichés à la Saturday evening ...

Every year the Vienna Philharmonic greets the new year with its annual celebration of the music of the Strauss family. And every year, the orchestra lets its collective hair down with one of the more ...

The five-piece band, which plays a Slovenian form of polka-like alpine folk music called Oberkrainer, made its American debut at one of Leavenworth’s annual Oktoberfest celebrations on Oct. 19.