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On an unusual warm October night Manchopolis was alive, and I caught Mike Becker with members of Smoked Kielbasa, who amazed me and thousands of folks enjoying the last warm night of the season. The performance was casual and intimate yet intense, varied and fun, all the things the Bob Dylan performance three blocks (and many $'s) away wasn't. - John K
Discography
SMOKED KIELBASA - 'American Goulash' - diverse and fun! Think POLKA GRAMMY!12 great songs including 'Kiss of Fire', 'Near the Carpathian mountians', and 'Happy Go Lucky Polka'! Wear out your dancing shoes!
Smoked Kielbasa - 'Live at Pleasant View' - The magic of live Kielbasa- 15 tracks including Beer Barrel Polka and Persian Rug.
Working title for next CD "POLKA ISLAND" tell us what you think!
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Founding and guiding members, Dan & Joe Blajda, continue a musical lineage that is over 150 years old. Their cousins, the renowned and award winning "Kapela Pudelkow" (Pudelko Family Band), have been performing and sharing traditional village music of their native Rzeszow region, in southeastern Poland, for over a century and a half.
Smoked Kielbasa has evolved over the years expanding its skills, style and now has a very large and diverse repertoire. In fact its so large that the band sometimes mutates. For example at St. Patricks Day we (all part Irish) change into The Black Pudding Rovers (Irish sausage) and put on a 4 hour show of great authentic Irish tunes with fiddles aflaming. We have also done a trio presenting classical and instrumental music under the name The Vienna Sausage Ensemble.
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