Buffalo in the 90s: Searching for the fragments of Buffalo’s polka culture

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo

For decades, Buffalo’s East Side was the cradle of the city’s Polonia culture. As people and institutions of Polish descent left the East Side, Buffalo’s unique blend of Polish and American traditions became spread out and not as easy to identify.

Twenty-five years ago, The News was asking whether Buffalo’s polka music culture was dead.