Alex Meixner is a Grammy-nominated musician and advocate...for polka music. Though he plays multiple instruments, including trumpet and drums, he's best known as an accomplished accordion player. He ...

Polka is not the most popular, or prosperous, genre of music in the world but that hasn’t stopped musician Alex Meixner from making a living from it. You might recognize the trumpet-playing, accordion ...

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – Just because Wurstfest is canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, doesn’t mean you can’t still celebrate. One of Wurstfest’s most celebrated entertainers, Alex ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Polka player Alex Meixner returns to the Lehugh Valley to help the Pennsylvania Music Preservation Society launch The Great Allentown Memorial Day Celebration. Gators QB DJ Lagway to ...

If the one-man band polka player in the new series of television commercials for Hormel pepperoni looks familiar, it’s because it’s Lehigh Valley native and longtime Musikfest fixture Alex Meixner.

The aroma of authentic German food and the sounds of polka swirled above the mountain on Spook Lane celebrating German culture at Reading Liederkranz during Oktoberfest, the longest running, authentic ...

At 32, Alex Meixner has a masterful reputation on the accordion. He has played 10 Wurstfests in a row and garnered a 2007 Grammy nomination for his work with Polka Freak Out (the name says it all).

The Grammy nominee brings his virtuosic, if wacky, punk-polka accordion antics and band back to New Braunfels for Fat Tuesday. His multi-instrumentalist's skills — Meixner plays bass like James ...

Famed polka musician Alex Meixner wasn’t on the bill at Krause’s Cafe & Biergarten a few weekends ago, but fans there to see Soul Sessions got to hear him play when he sat in on trumpet for a set. It ...

PHOTO GALLERY: Polka player Alex Meixner returns to the Lehugh Valley to help the Pennsylvania Music Preservation Society launch The Great Allentown Memorial Day Celebration. Critics balk at ...