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Gary's Ridgeland Dutchmen

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Gary’s Ridgeland Dutchmen hail from Cashton, Wisconsin, which is 30 miles east of La Crosse, Wisconsin. This band has traveled all over the US including Las Vegas, NV, Branson, MO, the Caribbean as well as Europe. They were also named Wisconsin Polka Hall of Fames Horizon Award winner in 1998, and BAND OF THE YEAR for 2003 and 2008.The band consists of Gary Brueggen, “Wisconsin’s Concertina Kid” on concertina, button accordion and vocals, Willard Brueggen, Gary’s father on Tuba, Dennis Nadherny on drums, and Laurie Solberg on piano, sax and vocals.The concertina, is an instrument that came from Chemnitz, Germany in the late 1800's. Gary, his wife Lisa and his mom and dad, went there last year on a history tour of the Chemitzer Concertina!They have numerous CD’s and cassettes available as well, and can be contacted here: 608-654-5240 or 608-343-1317 Email: [email protected] will be inducted into the World Concertina Congress Hall of Fame 2008, AND the band just got ALBUM of the Year from http://www.wisconsinpolkamusic.comTrumpet Echoes

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Member Since: 18/07/2006
Band Website: http://www.geocities.com/nashville/rodeo/2361/
Band Members: Gary Brueggen/"Wisconsin's Concertina Kid"--concertina, button box, vocals, Willard Brueggen--tuba, Laurie Solberg--piano, sax and vocals, Dennis Nadherny--drums
Influences: Ray Dorschner, Eddie B, Syl Leibl, Don Gralak, Marv Herzog, Brian Brueggen, Karl Hartwich, Larry Rysavy, Scrubby and the Dynatones, Pete and Paul Wendinger, Tom Brusky, Ed Hause, Steve Meisner, Gordon Hartmann, Eddie Klancnic, Ron Likovic, Roger Bright, Dan Witucki, Rodney Ristow, Don Lipovac, Asleep at the Wheel, my grandparent and parents just to name a few. Also, thank you to my wife, Lisa for being a huge support and backbone to what I do for this music, and the time and energy also put into this as well, AND all of the fellow IJ's over the "World Leader in Polka Entertainment, The Jammer Network".My show airs over the Jammer Network on Sunday's from 4-6 PM CST, and is again rebroadcast on Friday's from 12-2 PM CST here: http://www.thejammer.org
Record Label: RY Productions, Willard, WI
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

GOING ON A CRUISE!! Come along with us!!!!

It's a done deal!!  Gary's Ridgeland Dutchmen, Becky's Ivanhoe Dutchmen and the Barry Boyce Band are all going to be entertaining on a cruise next January 25 thru February 1st, 2008 on the Carniv...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:30:00 GMT

Trumpet Echoes Video

ALSO, a huge THANK YOU to Michelle from PolkaVideos.com for sharing the video of our band at the Tee Pee banquet Hall here on this site.  This is part of a DVD collection we hope to release later...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:23:00 GMT

Many Things

Hey gang, Well, the band has survived the road trip to Iowa and Nebraska and many places in between. Now things start to heat up a bit the next few weeks, starting on Thursday abd Friday with gig...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:14:00 GMT

My First Blog

Hey there gang, Well, here is my first blog ever!  The band makes our first appearence this Saturday night in Des Moines, IA at the Hessen Haus from 6-10 PM, and then we pack up and head to Omah...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 19:14:00 GMT