Joe Grkman Jr. can recall his father playing the accordion as far back as he can remember. “He’d have a friend come over to play guitar along with him,” said Grkman, 70, a Westmoreland County native living in Venetia. Joe Sr. and his friend would play polka tunes, and, in
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The Dreadnought’s Nick Smyth went from writing punk-polka anthem Polka Never Dies to a very insightful blog called Polka Might Actually Die a decade later.