Nancy
Hlad NoltkamperNancy
Hlad Noltkamper
...watch Nancy & Eric
performing at Yarnick's Farm in Indiana, PA
Nancy Hlad is a button accordion
recording artist with 3 released cassette and CD
albums. She has made several guest appearances on different CDs, including
the NEW 3rd Generation CD and the Smithsonian Folkways CD
called Deeper Polka.
Nancy started playing button accordion at age
7, influenced by her great uncle Henry Kersman, who played for
years with the Euclid (OH) Squeezeboxers. Her first button box
was an old Hohner two-row button accordion that she still picks
up now and then.
She took lessons from Frank Novak, "The Button Box
King", for a little over five years. Her name is the
last of the nearly 550 entries in his record of students.
Nancy has played with Frank Yankovic, Roger Bright, Verne Meisner, Jeff Pecon,
Steve Meisner, Bob Doszak, Jack Tady, Eddie Rodick and many
others.
She has been a promoter of polka music from the start. She
performs at
retirement homes, Oktoberfests and festivals, private parties,
dances and on bus trips. She was Cleveland television show
"The Morning Exchange" star of the week in 1989, at the
age of 15.
Nancys has hosted several radio programs over a span of over six
years, at WALN 92.1CABLE FM in Allentown, PA continuously, and at
WATJ 1560AM in Chardon, OH, WDLW 1380AM in Cleveland, OH, and
WERE 1300AM in Cleveland, OH intermittently. She is a
irregular regular on WCSB 89.3FM in Cleveland, OH.
She, along with husband Eric Noltkamper, operate
Nancy's Place For Polkas, the premier polka spot on the
Internet. They hosted dances on the Thanksgiving Friday Afternoon
for the past seven (7) years in Euclid (Cleveland), Ohio.
Nancy's Place, dedicated to the promotion of polka music, is the
world's
largest consortium of polka music artists, radio programs, band
schedules, halls of fame, equipment manufacturers and retailers,
and polka chatters.
The website offers song snippets from many fine polka bands and
allows you to purchase over 75 recordings, just by clicking on
the icon immediately below.
Contact Nancy and order products directly by writing
Nancy Noltkamper, P.O.Box
43313
Cleveland, Ohio 44143
or E-Mail Nancy