{"id":125211,"date":"2026-02-27T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125211\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:28:10","slug":"pennsylvania-polkafest-will-include-tribute-to-john-stanky-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125211\/","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":[15],"tags":[1681,201,182,803,1213,28,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-125211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-entertainment","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-music-and-concerts","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125211","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=125211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125211\/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=125211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}