{"id":124947,"date":"2026-02-27T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124947\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:24:11","slug":"pennsylvania-polkafest-will-include-tribute-to-john-stanky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124947\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Polkafest will include tribute to John Stanky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PLAINS TWP. \u2014 Pennsylvania Polkafest returns to Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 8 p.m. It will include a tribute to musician John Stanky, the Nanticoke native who died on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Grammy Award winner Jimmy Sturr and his orchestra will be performing alongside Joe Stanky &amp; The Cadets and the Polka Family Band, with dancing and traditional Slovak-Polish food. The two Stanky musicians are brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Reserved table seating is $30 per person, with tables of 10 available for guaranteed seating closer to the stage. General admission is open-table seating and is $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Tickets can be purchased online at <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketsalesnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ticketsalesnow.com<\/a>, and assistance for online purchases is available by calling 570\u2011550\u20116410. Tickets are also available at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre and Dickson City, for cash sales only.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania Polkafest is an all-ages event. However, most of the casino resort is a 21-plus venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLAINS TWP. \u2014 Pennsylvania Polkafest returns to Mohegan Pennsylvania on Saturday, April 11, from 4 to 8 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1681,201,182,803,1213,28,30,29,289,802],"class_list":{"0":"post-124947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-luzerne-county","12":"tag-music-and-concerts","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","15":"tag-pennsylvania-news","16":"tag-things-to-do","17":"tag-top-stories-cvc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}