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 ...

Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

This Friday at Poor David’s Pub, Denton’s Grammy Award-winning polka band Brave Combo will play music introduced to America by immigrants and refugees. Mayor Mike Rawlings will be there. Band member ...

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 ...

IT ALL STARTED WITH THE GRAMMY. Two years ago Brave Combo touched off no small controversy when Polkasonic won best polka album, beating out such pillars of the traditional genre as Jimmy Sturr and ...

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When: 8 p.m. Saturday March 30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Where: Royal Theater, 113 E. Main St. Information and Tickets: Royaltheater.org or 574-2489 It will be a night for a world of dancing when ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Police in Little Rock are searching for a former drummer for the Grammy Award-winning polka-rock band Brave Combo who hasn't been seen in two weeks. Police say Joe Cripps was ...

Carl Finch sits behind three keyboards in the Brave Combo office. He’s pressing buttons to shift the beat on the smallest keyboard (with built-in vocal processor), recording a bass line on the second ...

Percussionist Joe Cripps has been missing since October 2016. A concert is being held on Friday — his birthday — at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. Ed Steele Courtesy Percussionist Joe Cripps, once a ...

Former Brave Combo percussionist Joe Cripps, third from the left, is shown playing with Brave Combo at McDavid Studio in 2008. Rachel Parker Star-Telegram Percussionist Joe Cripps, a former member of ...