Album download includes high res album art files and polka videos!
The songs range from Dan's traditional family music to familiar polka hits, and include techno and dubstep remixes for the next generation. This six-song EP is an overture and paired with the full-length 2013 album "Just Because, Dummy".
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Dan Blajda 978-360-7889
The BEETBOX BAND from Cape Cod play high-energy roots music, including bluegrass, Americana, klezmer, and polka. Their rowdy live shows get the crowd dancing and singing along. Bandleader "Polka" Dan Blajda is a 5th-generation fiddler from a family of musicians in Poland's beet-farming region. This traditional dance band plays a fun mix of European village tunes, some of which date back hundreds of years in Polka Dan’s family. Virtuoso Clayton March also fronts the band, playing an array of instruments from banjo to clarinet to mandolin to sax to fiddle. Songwriter Greg Johnson plays bass, and wife Robin Johnson plays the piano, which was a common instrument in early polka before the accordion. Punk drummer David Silver drives the band and crowd into a frenzy at every show.
Polka Dan’s BEETBOX BAND have hilarious videos on the YouTube channel “Beetbox Band” (youtube.com/c/BeetboxBand).
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"Back to Future Polka", released May 1, 2011, was produced and engineered by Joel Hamilton (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Dub Trio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Matisyahu).

Dan's family back in the old country has retired after generations of being the village band, and their instruments and costumes hang in museums. Please join us in preserving the incredible music and culture of Polka!

A polka apocalypse is unfolding. Apolkalypse.

Traditional village polka music is all but forgotten. This rich cultural heritage encapsulates many lineages of eastern European roots music. Each year, there are fewer polka bands, and fewer record labels releasing polka music. The Grammys have discontinued the Best Polka Album category.

The Beetbox Band is on a mission to preserve all kinds of roots music and revitalize polka for the next generation. "Polka Dan" Blajda is a fifth-generation polka musician. For hundreds of years, Dan's relatives, the Pudelkow family, were a village band in Poland's beet-farming region. (The family name translates to "box", as in a box to carry beets, hence beetbox.) But, the family band has retired their instruments and band costumes to a local museum, and the music is no longer played.

Cape Cod's eclectic artist community has shown excited support of the Beetbox Band, and a new root music crowd is emerging. Shows have drawn increasing crowds, and a surprising number of younger attendees who come to dress up and dance.

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youtube.com/c/BeetboxBand

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The BEETBOX BAND
Cape Cod, MA, USA