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About Me

I have been a lifelong musician- first performing in public at age 6 with my 2 sisters as the Meixner Kinder, accompanied by my father's band. From these early performing experiences, I have gone onto lead a life immersed in music. I have performed and recorded with a multitude of artists from all around the world and teach music students ranging in age from 6 to 76. A versatile performer on trumpet, piano accordion, diatonic button accordion, keyboards, bass and drums- in addition to other horns and the occasional vocal (or yodel), I currently work with numerous groups including The Alex Meixner Band/ Meixner Music (formerly touring as The Al Meixner Trio- now with an added 4th musician); Jazz Visions; Polka Freak Out and various configurations with creative musicians. Outside of music, I enjoy working around the house (sometimes) and hanging out with my wife, Jamie, and our daughter Zoey as well as eating good food!

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Member Since: 4/4/2006
Band Website: alexmeixner.com
Band Members: The bands I play with have a wide range of characters. I'm also always looking to jam with or add more players to the pool.
Influences: I have had many influences from jazz to polkas, ethnic folk music from around the world to pop, classical, rock, country and just about anything in between... Some of my current favorites include: Don Lipovac, "Pan Jozef" Joe Oberaitis, Cannonball Adderly Quintet (W/ Nat, Louis Hayes, Sam Jones and Joe Zawinul-RIP), Aretha Franklin, Los Lobos, GlobalKryner, Sandy Lopicic Orkestar- "Border Confusion", Frank Sinatra, Lee Morgan, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Norah Jones, Brave Combo, Stevie Wonder, Lou Monte, Steve Meisner and my Dad's "Music of Al Meixner Volume 2".
Sounds Like: Meixner Music
Record Label: www.meixnermusic.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

In the schools...

So I've been laying low gig wise for the last few weeks-- getting the opportunity to hang out with my 11 month old daughter and my wife a bit more... Sure has been an adventure as Zoey is getting her ...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:02:00 PST

The Grammys.....

So by now we all know Jimmy Sturr has won Grammy number 17 for his cd, Come Share the Wine. Of course, I'm disappointed that "Polka Freak Out", my cd with Bubba Hernandez didn't take home the award-- ...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:43:00 PST

Merry Christmas y’all!

Just wanted to wish a Merry Christmas to everyone... we're having a nice, relaxed one here in FL with my wife's family... the next few months are a little light on gigs so I can get a little down time...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 02:17:00 PST

Grammy Nominated!!!!

I am very proud to announce that my latest cd, Polka Freak Out w/ Bubba Hernandez and Alex Meixner has been nominated for the Best Polka Album category. Thanks to the members of the Academy for the no...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:33:00 PST

Wurstfest!!!! and more

So I'm enroute home from the last trip to Texas for 2007... as always, the trip was well worthwhile! We started out with some technical difficulties before even leaving PA- when my regular midi accord...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:12:00 PST

Texas calling....

Hey everybody... the big November trip is just about here (actually hitting the road on Oct. 30)--Can't wait to get back to New Braunfels for Wurstfest...Meixner Music will be ready to Polka like craz...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:59:00 PST

home for a few weeks....

So I just got home from a few days out in NY and RI playing some Oktoberfest gigs-- 1st at a golf club in White Plains and then 3 days in Newport, RI on the waterfront. It was my first time in Newport...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:10:00 PST

Oktoberfest!

So-- last weekend Ed Klancnik and I were a power duo at Helen GA's Oktoberfest-- "the world's longest Oktoberfest". It had been 3 years since I had the opportunity to work down there, so it was nice t...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:42:00 PST

some more time slips by...

August seems like it was a blur... here it's already nearly the middle of September and whole bunch of gigs have just flipped by.... some pretty cool ones too.... sorry for not updating the blog! Anyw...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:04:00 PST

Music camps, Musikfest, western PA and more Musikfest

It seems like everything has been going non-stop... I did a nice little jazz camp at the Center for Arts in Homer, NY and got home in time to see my sweetie (Jamie and Zoey of course!) and start up an...
Posted by Alex Meixner on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:37:00 PST