Columns & Opinions

Editor’s Log, Polkadate January 2025. Feeling a little old, but then I think of these two guys… According to the John Hopkins Medicine website, “there are few things that stimulate the brain the way music does. If you want to keep your brain engaged throughout the aging process, listening to, or playing music is a great tool. It provides a total brain workout.”

Editor’s Log, Polkadate December 2024. This is a conclusion of a presentation the George Koudelka gave at a TCHCC event in 2014. As a drummer approaching seventy years of performing in the world of Texas polka, George has experienced all the major bands of Texas and recently participated in the Baca Tribute band in the Czech Center.

Polkadate November 2024. Ten years ago I asked George Koudelka, who will be celebrating performing on drums for seventy years in the next several months, to write a history of polka. He presented this, part one, at the TCHCC heritage festival.