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Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

Two seemingly opposite, long-standing Denton bands will both headline what’s being dubbed as a “polka punk apocalypse” at the Granada Theater on March 21: polka legends Brave Combo and punk band Wee ...

Carl Finch of Brave Combo in a 2014 file phot Richard W. Rodriguez Star-Telegram archives Carl Finch, the leader of Denton “nuclear polka” band Brave Combo, has been inducted into the International ...

IT ALL STARTED WITH THE GRAMMY. Two years ago Brave Combo touched off no small controversy when Polkasonic won best polka album, beating out such pillars of the traditional genre as Jimmy Sturr and ...

Polka music has taken Brave Combo from Denton, Texas — the latest stop in our Sense of Place series — to some wild places: from Japan to being featured in an episode of The Simpsons to playing at ...

Using polka as its launching pad, Brave Combo catapults listeners along a journey that makes obscure stops on the global music highway. The French national anthem might segue into a klezmer song and ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Tonight's Brave Combo concert at Bosque River Stage has been canceled due to wet grounds and a forecast of rain. When Danny O’Brien, veteran trumpeter for Denton’s Brave Combo, decided ...

When: 8 p.m. Saturday March 30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Where: Royal Theater, 113 E. Main St. Information and Tickets: Royaltheater.org or 574-2489 It will be a night for a world of dancing when ...

And whether tykes in diapers, broughams in “Czech This Out!” T-shirts or silver foxes well past AARP age, few in the audience were shy about dancing (or could withstand Combo spokesman Carl Finch’s ...

In 1979–the year WLUP hosted Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park and I learned to polka in gym class–the boys of Brave Combo turned to polka, not punk, to thumb their noses at commercial music.

What makes a man devote himself to polka music? Let us examine the case of Carl Finch in 1970s Denton, Texas. Discouraged by the monotony pervading most rock and pop at the time, he was driven to find ...