Baca Band Played All Day for $50 in 1918
Baca’s performing. Other massive veteran celebrations in La Grange and Fayetteville had the Baca’s marching and playing for huge crowds.
Baca’s performing. Other massive veteran celebrations in La Grange and Fayetteville had the Baca’s marching and playing for huge crowds.
Brandon and Scott Hodde performing with the Czechaholics at the TCHCC Gala on Dec. 4. Brandon’s grandfather was George Pavelka, a member of the Pavelka Orchestra, one of the gala honorees.
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The Festival of Texas Fiddling presented Valerie Ryals with its Master Fiddler Award at the festival in Blanco on Saturday, Dec. 4. She is pictured above performing at Twin Sisters Dance Hall that day.
When the strains of Polka Time in Texas came rolling out of radios tuned to 1450 AM across Southern Central Texas from 1996 to 2013, people’s ears pricked up and concentration was shifted to hear the voice of John Zavadil wishing them a pleasant day in English, Czech, German, and Spanish.