A few links to other Czech and Polka music web sites not affiliated with us but perhaps of interest to you.
Internet radio stations featuring Dechovka (Czech wind band music)
- Radio Dechovka, internet radio station dedicated to beautiful Czech music. You can use Google Translate to read the articles in English.
- Blasmusik Shop Radio, the radio station of the store BlasmusikShop in Germany. Not only Dechovka, but also other wind band music.
YouTube channels featuring Dechovka
- Mistrínanka's YouTube Channel
- Herman Engelbertinck und seine Egerländer Musikanten, from The Netherlands.
- Hlubik Production. Includes bands like Moravanka, Stříbrňanka, Mistříňanka, Moravěnka, Vlado Kumpan, Blaskapelle Gloria, Túfaranka, and many more.
- Veselka Ladislava Kubeše. This is a YouTube "topic", not a channel. Topics are auto-generated by YouTube.
- Moravanka Jana Slabáka. This is another "topic" auto-generated by YouTube.
Also, you can search YouTube for specific band names or song titles and turn up many more recordings and channels.
Web sites in Texas and the USA
- Polkabeat, founded by Theresa Cernoch Parker to promote Texas polka music and heritage and honor the memory of her dad, Willie "Bill" Cernoch, a passionate polka promoter. The site is updated weekly with the latest dance schedules of Texas bands, feature stories, CD reviews, artist interviews and photo/video coverage of polka dances and festivals. Now also the home of the Texas Polka News newspaper.
- PolkaWorks of Austin, Texas creates documentaries, photography and educational programs about unique cultural traditions.
- Austin Czech Historical Association.
- Louisiana Czech Museum
- Czech song lyrics at TexasCzechs.com
- Chris Rybak, the Accordion Cowboy
- Czech Melody Masters
- Czechoslovak Society of Arts & Sciences.
- Nancy's Place for Polkas
- The Texas Music Office
Web sites in Europe
- Česká dechovka, European portal for Czech Blasmusik
- Mistrínanka
- Jan Slabák & Moravanka
- Stříbrňanka
- Blaskapelle Gloria
- Šohajka
- Ladislav Kubeš & Veselka
- Zdounečanka, a brass band that celebrated its 40 years in 2016.
- Blaskapelle Tschecharanka
- Ernst Mosch and his Original Egerlander Musicians - Mosch Musikverlag
- Herman Engelbertinck und seine Egerländer Musikanten
- Sdružení dechových orchestrů České republiky (SDOČR), or in English, Wind Band Association of the Czech Republic. Use Google Translate to read the site in English.
Publishers and Sheet Music Stores
- Music Publishers of America, home of the Vitak-Elsnic music library, and newer arragenements as well.
- RUNDEL music publisher, founded by Siegfried Rundel, composer and arranger.
- Blasmusik Shop
- Kubešovo Hudební Vydavatelství. The many wonderful compositions and arrangements of Ladislav Kubeš (1924-1998)
Composers and Arrangers Remembered
- František Maňas, 1921-2004, composer.
- Siegfried Rundel, 1940-2009, composer and arranger.
- Jiří Vrána, 1947-2006, composer for Blaskapelle Stříbrňanka.
- See many more at the "people" section of Česká dechovka, European portal for Czech Blasmusik