Grammy Award for Best Polka Album
The Grammy Award for Best Polka Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards to recording artists for quality polka albums. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".
Frank Yankovic, the award's first winner
Three-time award winner Walter Ostanek in 2011
Members of the two-time award-winning band Brave Combo
Polka is a dance and genre of dance music originating in nineteenth-century Bohemia, now part of the Czech Republic. Though associated with Czech culture, polka is popular throughout Europe and the Americas.
A polka dance
Street musicians in Prague playing a polka
Polka, c. 1840
People dancing polka in Tampere, Finland in 2006