10/11/2026
October 3rd 2026 ~ While our members noodled, socialized, and demonstrated our instruments before our meeting, two members attempted to shanghai MAC's too-long absent President Emeritus. That mission was unsuccessful BUT it did motivate our most senior member and Founder to join us when the round robin started.
October usually gives us a beautiful fall afternoon to enjoy, meaning we don't always have a long list of performers. Nonetheless, 15 performers and a few guests whirled across continents with GUSTO!
We jumped immediately into Danube Waves and navigated to Italy where Marina fell in love on a lovely Mattinata. A dance trio reeled around W***y Nilly (a Mariners' Carol). Now present, the President Emeritus borrowed the accordion that introduced him to our Facebook admin. His Lady of Spain rocked her socks off ten years ago and continues to be his showpiece. The Founder then mirrored the admin's sentiment for that decade as My Happiness.
A mixed quartet sailed to Germany to land arpeggially on a Clarinet Polka in a Brauhaus. They continued through the Alps with a Schneewalz, stopped to polka briefly in Lichtenstein, and returned to drop a member into Las Vegas. They shared a yodel in their Tyroler Hat before finding love in a few harbors across the Continent. Back at the Brauhaus, our favorite clarinet joined that sailor to remind us there's No B**r In Heaven. With good faith, a second accordion enlarged the duo to a trio who Rolled out the Barrel as the gang sang in a happy garden.
A Cirirbiribin (cheery bitty) bird called us from Italy to the USA where we hadn't been In The Longest Time. Jim left Billy, sailing for the Philippines to see the Shadow of Your Smile. Eastern Europe called us sentimentally. Oktoberfest drew Chickens to Dance a Laendler. Anneliese arrived next, waltzing in Tennesee, before sharing a Pennsylvania polka.
Our guest ukulele followed Bonnie Over the Ocean back up in the woods where Johnnie B. Goode rocked our clarinet and accordion advocate to GO, GO, GO!!!
We'll meet again on 7 NOVEMBER at Baltimore County's LANSDOWNE LIBRARY in a slightly different time frame. WATCH THIS PAGE for that information as polkageists haunt your Halloween.
