Indiana Hoedown Field Recordings: Folk & Ethnic Artists
Hoagland Oktoberfest
September 14, 1979. Maumee Valley Polka Band (Napoleon, Ohio) & The Barons (Detroit).
- polka
- waltz
- schottische
- square dance
September 15, 1979. The Imperials (Toledo, Ohio) & The Vandenberg Orchestra (Holland, Michigan).
- polka
- waltz
- schottische
- polka
Balkan Music
Circa 1950. Elia Calcoff Orchestra (Fort Wayne) - 78s of Macedonian dance music recorded at a local radio station for St. Nicholas Macedonian Orthodox Church.
April 20 1980. The Kastorians (Fort Wayne) dance for St. Phillip of Macedon Greek Orthodox Church.
- syrtos
- hasapiko
- syrtos
Central European Music
New Immigrants
July 1980. Steve Duray (Fort Wayne) - concertina & piano accordion. Of Slovenian descent he plays German, Polish and Slovenian-style polkas. The first two pieces are on concertina.
- unnamed polka (from Casey "Fingers" Siewierski)
- unnamed oberek (Polish)
- Chicagoland Twirl (from Frankie Yankovich)
- unnamed oberek (major/minor)
- Slovenian Home Polka (Slovenian)
August 1980. Fritz Ehrhart (Monroeville) - button box accordion. Post-war German immigrant, Fritz leads an dance orchestra that plays regularly at the Fort Wayne Sport Club, a German club.
- Happy People Ländler
- Flower Polka (old-style polka)
- In Heaven There Is No Beer
- Snow Waltz (Schnee Walzer)
- Edelweiss Waltz (not the one you think)
Old Immigrants
August 10, 1980. Obie & Ossie (St. Meinrad). Herb Obermeyer - fiddle, and Oscar "Butch" Kunkler - guitar & vocal. The latter was a member of Joe Altman's Spaasmachers in the 1960s.
- Der Lauterbach
- Du Leigst Mir Im Herzen
August 10, 1980. The Satkamp Family (Stendahl). Wayne Satkamp - fiddle & vocal, with wife Barbara - bass, children Charlie - electric mandolin, & Lisa - tambourine, & & father Hugo - drums.