Saturdays on 620 KHB-AM, and Moose Rosana, aka “The Big Moose,” has been doing it since the mid-1980s as the host of the “ Polka Party” radio show on Bigfoot 102.1-101.3 FM. Tady does that by way of his “ Polka Place Radio Show,” from 12:30-2 p.m. Part of that effort involves spreading the music far and wide. It’s really great seeing younger people get excited and dance to polka music.” “And the average age of the crowd is a lot different from the people at your average polka festival. “We’ve been there now for 13 and a half years,” he said. Performing at Hofbrauhaus is a step in that direction, he said. “That was me at one time, and I have great memories of other bands letting me fill in along the way, sit in and play a few songs.” “We’re always trying to encourage younger musicians to get involved with it,” said Mike Grkman, 45, of Canonsburg. “I’ve been playing polka music since I was 14 years old,” he said.Īnd like any niche genre of music, getting the next generation interested is a key part of keeping the music alive. Tady has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, was given the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and has appeared in several movies, including the recent Showtime series “American Rust,” where his band portrayed a polka group at a wedding. My mom had Frankie’s records and albums from a whole lot of other bands.” ![]() ![]() “My inspiration came from Frank and a lot of the Cleveland bands. “I was contacted by Frankie to come to Nashville and record with him,” said Tady, who also was a longtime music teacher in the Deer Lakes School District before retiring in 1999. Jack Tady, 84, of Cheswick is about as close to polka royalty as it gets in the region, having been nicknamed “Western Pennsylvania Polka King” by none other than America’s Polka King himself, Frankie Yankovic. “If you traveled within 10 miles of my house in Yukon when I was growing up, you could find about 30 places with live music, and a lot of it was polka.” “You had your ethnic clubs, Moose clubs, firemen’s halls - it was all over,” Grkman Jr. It’s a far cry from the small gigs polka bands used to play at ethnic social clubs across Western Pennsylvania, but it is keeping the tradition of polka music alive. and his son Mike are both part of the house band at Hofbrauhaus in Pittsburgh’s South Side, playing old and new polka music for crowds of all ages with several groups housed at the “ Grkmania” website. and his friend would play polka tunes, and, in 1967, his son and two cousins joined him and formed a polka band, starting with gigs at the former Slovenian ballroom in Herminie. “He’d have a friend come over to play guitar along with him,” said Grkman, 70, a Westmoreland County native living in Venetia. can recall his father playing the accordion as far back as he can remember. I almost didn't buy the Highlander kit because of that very issue.Joe Grkman Jr. If you want to try a different shader you'll need to change the UV set again after 'cause it will most likely reset it to default. (The buckle doesn't need to be changed if you don't want, it was fine). So, load the kilt, apply the shader or fabric tile you want, then in the surface tab change the UV set to "Seamless_Tiling" for all the material zones. There is a seam on the UV on the top portion by his left hip (had to be there to keep the scale consistant across the whole thing), if you keep your tiling repeats even numbers (2,4,6 etc) you won't get a visible seam there, if you use an odd number you might depending on your fabric tile's pattern. It's designed to take seamless tiles without showing seams (with the exception of the leather belt part, that still has a seam in the back but at least it's straight now). Just drop this in your content and you'll have the extra morph and the alternate UV show up when you load the kilt. ![]() also made a morph to level out the hem, the front is very low by default and makes even a nice straight UV mapping look off. I addressed the weird UV issue with the Highlander kilt.
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