Milwaukee Polka Band

Tom Brusky is an authentic, third-generation polka musician from Milwaukee who is dedicated to carrying on the music of the city's great polka bands from the past, like Louis Bashell, Tony Rademacher, Ferd Buchel, and Al Roberts.

Since the 1990s, they've performed as a two- to five-piece band, but have recently scaled down to a two-piece band for almost all of their public and private performances. The duo consists of acordion and drums. Tom's accordion has integrated electronics providing bass and other sounds. With the accordion combined with drums and vocals, the two-piece band literally produces the same, full, lively, danceable sound of a three-piece band, but at a more affordable price.

As a polka band, they can entertain crowds with all the beer hall favorites like Roll Out the Barrel and Who Stole the Kishka, and strike sentimental chords with classic waltzes such as Waltz Across Texas and The Blue Skirt Waltz, but they actually boast a repertoire of over 200 polkas and waltzes. They are firmly established in Wisconsin's polka music circuit, and are regularly hired to provide polka music for Oktoberfests, festivals, fairs, and all other events wanting an authentic polka experience.

Outside the polka genre, their repertoire consists of over 200 standards, foxtrots, two-steps, rhumbas, cha-chas, swing, classic country, and Christmas songs. They are often hired by dance clubs for our variety music alone, but it is their combined repertoire of polkas, waltzes, and variety music that makes them the premier band in town for birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, and so much more.

They perform regularly throughout our home territory of Southern Wisconsin, and will travel to wherever their music is desired, providing music for all occasions: