CANCELED: LynnMarie & the Nashville Polka Guys

Polka. Free.

press release: Dubbed “The Dixie Chick Of the Accordion” by Jay Leno, LynnMarie, the squeeze box player and vocalist and first female artist ever to win a Grammy nod for Best Polka Album, fuses high-energy rock, pop, country and the traditional music of her Slovenian heritage to wow crowds everywhere: from Oktoberfests, to music festivals, coffee houses and all over Europe!

When Pete Townshend wrote The Who’s “Squeeze Box” in the mid-'70s, he originally planned for it to be performed on a TV special by the band accompanied by 100 topless accordionists. 30 years later, LynnMarie—the first and only female ever to be Grammy nominated for Best Polka Album—is not only singing and playing her own “Squeeze Box” (aka the Button Box Accordion) on a hip, new, country rock version of the classic tune, but appears on the cover of her Grammy nominated Party Dress album wearing only a sassy smile and her beloved traditional instrument.

Talking about her generation? Well sort of, but LynnMarie is passionate about taking the genre out of the stereotypical image of portly, kielbasa scented dudes in lederhosen and to a younger generation starved for exciting and original new music. 

And she’s succeeding. US Weekly may have said it best in a write up of Squeeze Box, the 2000 album that earned her the first Grammy nomination: “this is not your grandfather’s polka.” Jay Leno called her “the Dixie Chick Of Polka.” And Austin O’Connor of The Sun, a newspaper based in Lowell, Massachusetts where LynnMarie & The Boxhounds have played the National Folk Festival, called her “undoubtedly the sexiest player ever to strap on an accordion!” Rolling Stone chimed in: “LynnMarie is one soulful polka diva.”