Even after 30 years as the leader of legendary area polka act Brave Combo, Carl Finch sounds like he’s just getting started. “Every year, there seems to be some kind of new carrot dangling in front of ...

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 ...

Silver-haired fans in worn Brave Combo T-shirts polka alongside toddlers, teenagers and other couples under an August sun beating down on a rooftop bar on Denton’s downtown square. As the dancers ...

Grammy winning Texas based quintet and America’s premier dance band, Brave Combo, have perfected a world music mix that includes salsa, merengue, rock, cumbia, conjunto, polka, zydeco, classical, ...

John Butcher: The great British free jazz saxophonist makes his second appearancae with an ocean-crossing ensemble that includes German synth wizard Thomas Lehn and percussionist Gino Robair from San ...

In its 31 years, Denton-based Brave Combo has tackled a world’s worth of musical styles: polka, pop, rock, rhumba, cumbia, jazz, classical, cha cha, samba and more. Fans will hear the band’s latest ...

Locals and out-of-towners attended the last day of the 42nd Denton Arts & Jazz Festival on Sunday at Quakertown Park. National and local musicians perform throughout the three-day festival, which ...

Brave Combo From: Denton New album: Holidays In Houston: 11 p.m. Saturday at Continental Club, 3700 Main. Tickets are $12 at 713-533-9525 or continentalclub.com. There exists no greater invitation to ...

St. Louis may be without a major jazz festival this June, but fortunately there's enough other activity this weekend that many fans of jazz and creative music can probably find something to their ...

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 ...

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.