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a doving having made anything not able.

Speaker 2: To take.

Speaker 3: Nothing, anything, anything that difference.

Speaker 4: That was Polka vitegar from Ron Pivovar starting us off

on this episode of Tom's Polka Party. Well, it is

Memorial Day weekend. It takes me back to those wonderful

times that we had in Fontana for the Far West

button box jamborees that were held Memorial Day weekends. And

now Ron Pivovar has his National Button Accordion Festival going

on back in Pennsylvania this same weekend, and they're in

their twentieth year of doing that. So on today's program,

we're gonna celebrate the way we always have Memorial Day Weekend.

A lot of fine button box music, a lot of

fine artists that we saw in Fontana and then now

in Pennsylvania for this wonderful weekend of accordion playing. Well,

let's stick to Ron Pivovar and do this one called

Canoe around the Moon.

Speaker 5: Let's Canno go to the Moon that a live past

the sun by a love starting.

Speaker 6: Start in of the world.

Speaker 5: Please fun, that's the charm. Let you beyond and above,

we know it.

Speaker 3: It's boot vine that.

Speaker 5: Love the sun no not not shine.

Speaker 2: That's a charm, my love.

Speaker 7: Let you be onondabom.

Speaker 2: We know it.

Speaker 5: It's booth stevine that the sun.

Speaker 7: No not that shine, say.

Speaker 5: Long because it's fly, travel form more means of light.

Speaker 2: It past.

Speaker 1: Round the harder savingly Bob.

Speaker 8: That's the tar of ale she be on, and the

boll he knowed his group be on.

Speaker 2: That the sun of mon child. That's a chill love.

Speaker 6: That she be on.

Speaker 2: And we know this by.

Speaker 7: Someone Hi.

Speaker 3: Dance and sing.

Speaker 6: Come dance and sing. Get up and put your feet

on the floor.

Speaker 5: Hold on to your partner and spin them some more.

Speaker 3: To the right to them and not at the door.

Speaker 2: Dance and sing.

Speaker 7: Come dance and sing.

Speaker 3: We're friends and so much more, can't you.

Speaker 2: Now?

Speaker 6: The games are he.

Speaker 9: Dance and sing, Come dance and sing.

Speaker 2: Get up and get your.

Speaker 10: Feet on the floor, Hold on to your partnerendspin them

small to the right to that and the door.

Speaker 2: Dance and sing.

Speaker 5: Come dance and see we're friends.

Speaker 1: And so much more than me.

Speaker 11: And you.

Speaker 5: Now the games are here.

Speaker 11: Me and you.

Speaker 4: Dance and sing. From Julie Tabbi, Tony Trontel, Solaris providing

the vocals. Well, like I mentioned earlier, mem Royal Day Weekend,

it was always about fun at Accordion festivals. For me,

it started with and I started going to the Far

West Button Box Jamborees with the Fontana and Box Club.

Part of those wonderful weekends were times where Frank Vitegar

got together with his kids, Frank Junior and Lisa on

some great great polkas. Here is the trio of Frank Senior,

Frank Junior and Lisa song about those happy times, happy

times Polka from the Vinegar.

Speaker 12: Family and.

Speaker 13: Now inductions.

Speaker 4: Instating trumpet echoes bolka coming from the Fontana Button Box

Club featuring Frank Vinegar Senior, Junior and Lisa, and that

takes you back to those wonderful wonderful times with the

Fontana Button Box Club and Far West Button Box Jamboree

over Memorial Day weekend and seeing Frank, Frank Junior and

Lisa of playing in unison and just the smiles on

their faces and always highly entertaining the crowd that was there.

Speaker 14: After the game, after school, after work. Applebee's is where

you want to be to enjoy their bold, savory grilled

steaks salmon or chicken. Applebee's is located where Beaumont meets Banning,

just off Sixth Street near Highland Springs Avenue. Applebee started

with the same philosophy they follow today, focus on serving

good food to good people in a neighborhood style setting.

Applebee's also offers car side to go when you order online.

Applebee's and Beaumont serving the pass area, So fresh, so fast,

Make it Applebee's Tonight.

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Speaker 11: Hello, my fellow composers, I am, of course Beethoven. The

International Polka Association is launching this year's Young Songwriter competition,

and I want to hear what you can do. Go

to our website IPA Polkas dot com and submit your

original polka or waltz and let's see if you have

what it takes to win one thousand dollars. Check out

IPA Polkas dot com for all the details. Best of

luck to you, and now I have to get back

to decomposing.

Speaker 15: Here comes the National Button Accordions Festivals, celebrating twenty years.

It's all about Accordions. Hosted by the Apollo Manacort Club

and Sharon Pennsylvania. There we will be held on Friday's,

Saturday and Sunday, May twenty second, twenty third, and twenty fourth,

twenty twenty six. Musicians are coming from Minnesota, Virginia, New York,

North Carolina, Ohio, Alaska, Missouri, Colorado, and all corners of Pennsylvania.

There's our hardwood dance floor and outdoor of beer gardens

along with the coziest warroom morale, and we have room

for campus. The club's excellent homemade food and the very

best in Pennsylvania micro Bruise and German bear gen Draft.

For more details, so do www dot National Button Accordion

Festival dot com. This app sponsored in part by the

Mercer County Visitors Bureau Www dots visit mercercountypa dot com,

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Speaker 4: At the door, Let's talk, and that's what we're celebrating

on the program today. We're honoring all these wonderful Memorial

Day weekends we've had in Fontana as well as those

fine National Button Accordion festivals in Pennsylvania. A lot of

people always look forward to this song featuring Papa Joe

Maloccer on the vocals the Fontana Button Box Club. You

know I'm talking about oh yah.

Speaker 2: Oh.

Speaker 5: Yeah, like the slessel.

Speaker 9: Oh Yeah, don't go nay bogie, Oh yeah, ols fight

Bogie Ohiah in sample, Oh Yeah, I'm gott.

Speaker 7: Yes my groobo.

Speaker 5: Oiah in, said Bel Negro.

Speaker 2: Oh yeah, in.

Speaker 5: Ever John Nago, Oh uh.

Speaker 2: Neither not grow.

Speaker 5: Oh yeah.

Speaker 9: Go Buck Bush. Oh yeah, son, but the boy's sports.

Speaker 5: Now Oh yeah, bah ye big big Escapra.

Speaker 6: Yeah guy year Uh.

Speaker 10: Oh yeah, she.

Speaker 5: Buy me in a movie?

Speaker 11: Yeah?

Speaker 9: Did you say your Goddaiah.

Speaker 12: Sonny I kill my boy?

Speaker 5: OI can't guys here boy?

Speaker 7: Ohmertan down.

Speaker 2: American American t.

Speaker 4: That was William Hayes with Old Mill water Wheel. And

I was listening to that song, and I'm thinking about

how the old mill water wheels spun around on a

river and figured that song kind of sounds like what

you'd imagine interesting here watching that water wheel. William Hayes

from the National Button, according to All Star Volume two CD.

Speaker 10: Fourteen AM Smart Talk Radio, Kammy Banning, Beaumont and Redlands

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Speaker 16: Check us out online at KMT fourteen ninety am dot com.

Speaker 4: Well, and I think about these Memorial Day weekends and

having fun with all these accordion players and musicians all

over the world. I think back of the friendships that

started with Memorial Day weekends. One of those friendships with

me was with Steve Bailech singor Steve Bailech Junior and

the guys from the Baileach Band, specifically Tom Kazaza, who

played drums and sang with the band for many years.

I always remember when they came down to Fontana, they

listened to my radio show, and Tom Kazazza later caught

me off to the side and said, Hey, I've never

heard myself on the radio, and it was such a

joy that you played a song that I was singing on.

This is the song I played. It's always been one

of my favorites by the Baileach Band featuring Tom Kazaza

because the interlayer Tom with singing with himself. This is

Mussoline Diffiordy from thet Bailet senior pop.

Speaker 16: Band Coumarts the Fury comarts.

Speaker 7: The Fury.

Speaker 2: Would have been.

Speaker 3: Fellow this.

Speaker 6: Bragmyvo the rage.

Speaker 7: The same.

Speaker 3: What's the same one.

Speaker 7: It's the same that one. Don't get it? S just

the same one.

Speaker 6: Don't get it? So said Sid said, don't.

Speaker 5: Say I know that, you know?

Speaker 16: Do they new?

Speaker 6: Go on, mabot frem whatever they new, go on mare

so souls be gun you wicked, don't for a good

two souls.

Speaker 10: The lam been able budget to day Marca, they move back.

Speaker 5: We need your separate no mars jacky bye jack Selda.

Speaker 9: They all fancy big one bandilla as a bunch of

looking bar.

Speaker 3: Don't jams on all the time ya meaning must perceive.

Speaker 5: Gelage of your Nina lemo.

Speaker 7: La venda go the rechi bar.

Speaker 3: One of keeping gon be gana a b sucle bar with.

Speaker 5: Tic guitar.

Speaker 16: Gesra ge of your Nina lavizza p.

Speaker 5: The retchi bar one a bag off the.

Speaker 16: Gina misipropaic guitar Gina, regina, podina, lamare la vida or.

Speaker 5: The rega bar.

Speaker 1: What of tbate off the Gina and its.

Speaker 5: In the parquetar.

Speaker 6: Ginagi rapiamina lama la.

Speaker 10: Vida da rechabar, what do te bate off the gina?

Speaker 4: Once again featuring the wonderful vocals of Tom Kazaza the

Steve Bailech Senior polk Band with the TikTok Polka, and

as I was listening to those Baileach songs, I was

thinking how Memorial Day weekend in Fontana led me to

going to the Katati Accordion Festival and meeting so many

more musicians and having some fine accordion times over the

last many, many many years. I still remember Steve Bailech

Senior walking up to me at the Button Box events

and saying, you know what, you got to come to

our festival now?

Speaker 12: And yeah.

Speaker 4: Once I started going to Katati, been there over twenty times,

missed a couple of years, but I planned to be

back there again this year with the Steve Baileach Junior

band now in the Polka tent, keeping the tradition that

was started by Steve Senior. Pick Tom's Poke a party

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Family Clinic. Doctor Isabella Posgnoli, MD is a Board certified

doctor of internal medicine and worked at the Loma Linda

Veterans Healthcare Center. Doctor Posegnoli is an expert in treating diabetes,

high blood pressure and kidney disease. Log onto Hemetfamilyclinic dot com. Today,

all insurances are accepted and same day appointments with a

doctor you can truly trust at Hemi Family Clinic. Log

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Speaker 4: Joshua Tree Accordion Festival returns for its second year on

June sixth and seventh, twenty twenty six. Spring together accordionists, musicians, dancers,

and music lovers from across the region for a joyful,

genre bending celebration of one of the world's most expressive instruments.

Set against the iconic backdrop of Joshua Tree. The festival

feature live performances, workshops, jam sessions, and community gatherings showcasing

the accordion's role across musical traditions from folk unjunto zaidiko

and polka, Depapa Americana, experimental and beyond. After a successful

inaugural year, the twenty twenty six vessel expands its programming

with two full days of music and education, highlighting both

nationally recognized artists and local favorites, while creating space for beginners,

season players and curious listeners alive. The accordion has always

been a social instrument. It brings people together, said festival

co organizer Skylar Fell, accordions performer and owner of the

Accordion Apocalypse repair shop and Joshua Tree. This festival is

about community across, pollination of styles, and celebrating the weird,

wonderful magic of the squeeze box in the desert. Festival

highlights include live accordion or performances across multiple genres, hands

on workshops and skill sharing sessions, informal jams and collaborative sets.

Opportunities connect with accordion repairers and enthusiasts. Family friendly daytime programming,

high energy evening shows. Joshua Tree Accordion Festival aims to

be inclusive, accessible and welcoming, whether you play, dance, sing

or just want to soak in the sound of bellows

under desert skies. The second annual Joshua Tree Accordion Festival

June sixth and seventh, in Joshua Tree, California. For more information,

email Accordion Apocalypse at yahoo dot com. Again, that's according

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Party at gmail dot com. Well over these wonderful Memorial

Day weekends, I always got to meet the ladies of

the Alaska Polka Chips, Arch Ford and Patty Grissich. Here

they are doing a Joe Molocker tune Rosemary's Bulkye.

Speaker 6: It's so good.

Speaker 10: Now I'm remind red satin shoes. I ain't got the

blue s in my red satin shoes. Look at me now,

I'm going ancient red satin shoes.

Speaker 7: I ain't got the blue.

Speaker 5: So now I'm wearing my red satin shoes.

Speaker 4: I ain't got the No.

Speaker 10: I'm going time now that I'm wearing mine red satin shoes.

I ain't got in my red satin shoes. Me now

I'm longing my love and my red satin shoes. I

ain't got the blues. No, while I'm dancing in red

satin shoes. I ain't got the blues. My red satin

shoes love me. Now I'm few fancy red satin shoes.

Speaker 2: I oh yeah.

Speaker 4: The wonderful ladies from Alaska Marge Ford and Patty Gersic,

known as the Alaska Polka Chips. That was their original

composition called Red Satin Shoes, and I used to hear

different polka bands playing that at festivalson I always thought

that was a jazz piece or a standard from way

back when. I never realized it was written by the ladies.

I forget where I found that out one day, but

I was like, wow, they brought a really really good tune.

Red Satin Shoes.

Speaker 11: Love that one. Well.

Speaker 4: Marge and Patty quite often a company, the Alaska Button

Box Gang. Here's the Alaska Button Box Gang with a

Gary Siebert tune called Budgie Boys.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, one of my favorite Kenny Bass numbers, Lake

Shore Polka done there from the Alaska Button Box Gang.

Let's close out the hour with the Mahoning Valley Button

Box Club. Here they are doing dreaming Waltz.

Speaker 7: I name.

Speaker 2: At night and you're so long alone?

Speaker 3: No want to.

Speaker 6: All me died?

Speaker 7: You call me on the phone.

Speaker 1: You say a love has died and you found someone.

I know I should work at, but I'm not on you.

Speaker 7: I dream me.

Speaker 3: My love that is to be.

Speaker 2: I dream that you're still here with me.

Speaker 5: I'm dreaming, that's.

Speaker 2: All I see you.

Speaker 1: Oh dreaming guys, I'm still in love with you. God regnant,

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Speaker 7: Body says Sam. NOI s.

Speaker 1: It's your chader for now, your.

Speaker 5: Bob beside your cry.

Speaker 1: You go see now, Shayo cash by many.

Speaker 7: Drag sabty.

Speaker 1: Your son and ya.

Speaker 6: What rush of you?

Speaker 3: Bob your sign Yon.

Speaker 13: Dotcy for time and.

Speaker 2: Your sign or ta rocky boy, Yeah.

Speaker 5: Sun storms are.

Speaker 6: You can not.

Speaker 2: Rocky bore a man?

Speaker 1: Monisy turned to feel my mind once more, to shine

not to low when.

Speaker 7: You walk down the door I found I'd be.

Speaker 1: So strong the day you went away and almost heard

and then my heart got in the way.

Speaker 7: I dream me of love that us to me.

Speaker 12: I dream me.

Speaker 3: That you're still with me.

Speaker 5: I'm dreaming, that's.

Speaker 2: All I seem to do.

Speaker 1: Oh dreaming cause I'm still in love with you Yet

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