Welcome to the Official Website of The Penn Ohio Polka Pals. POPPs is a group of 60 musicians that have united for one goal. That goal is the promotion and perpetuation of Polka Music.
Meeting on the second Tuesday of every month at the Pacentrano Club in Youngstown, Ohio, POPP Members plan many events that in some way promote polka music.
We invite you to tour our web site and hope you find it both useful and entertaining.
If you would like information about becoming a member of the Penn Ohio Polka Pals, feel free to contact us at any time.
Thank you for your interest in Polka Music.
To contact the POPP
Email:
popp@yahoo.com
Address:
The Penn Ohio Polka Pals
993 Gary Ave.
Girard, Ohio 44420
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HISTORY of THE POPP
The PENN OHIO POLKA PALS (POPP) first saw the light of on July 27, 1976 at 7:30PM, at the American Federation of Musicians Hall, located at 2520 South Ave. in Youngstown, Ohio.
POPPS is somewhat of a patchwork quilt, bits and pieces of nationality groups. Musicians with Slovak, Polish, Slovenian, Serbo-Croation, Italian, and Hungarian backgrounds woven into a fraternal blanket that covers the greater Mahoning Valley with its blanket of energy and music. With this mixture of talent, it is little wonder POPPS has served as an incubator for a variety on tastes and events.
Their two recordings, are musical smorgasboards of sounds offered by the multitalented members of POPP.
POPPS has glanced at its horoscope for the future and is pleased at what it sees, an energetic and aggressive leadership, a responsable and responsive membership, an enthusiastic and loyal following, and a further commitment to the social and fraternal structor of the Mahoning Valley.
With the bands at stage ready, POPPS is dedicated to the preservation of its musicial treasury to future generations.
(Written by Frank Rezek, original POPP Historian)
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