Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

Just days before sending me a copy of the new Brave Combo album, Carl Finch was busy trying to make a CD that will listen seamlessly, without any pauses to between songs, so that I can get what he ...

Silver-haired fans in worn Brave Combo T-shirts polka alongside toddlers, teenagers and other couples under an August sun beating down on a rooftop bar on Denton’s downtown square. As the dancers ...

Polka music has taken Brave Combo from Denton, Texas — the latest stop in our Sense of Place series — to some wild places: from Japan to being featured in an episode of The Simpsons to playing at ...

What happened to the internationally recognized percussionist Joe Cripps is a still an unanswered question. Cripps was best known for his work with Denton-based, Grammy Award-winning polka band Brave ...

The utter fabulousness that is Brave Combo must be experienced in person to be truly enjoyed. Sure, the 32-year-old group, a musical mainstay of the Denton-Dallas-Fort Worth triangle, has won two ...

John Butcher: The great British free jazz saxophonist makes his second appearancae with an ocean-crossing ensemble that includes German synth wizard Thomas Lehn and percussionist Gino Robair from San ...

Brave Combo, the Denton-based "nuclear polka" band that's been chugging along for more than 35 years, is going to sound — and look — a little bit different. Jeffrey Barnes, who has played sax, ...

Percussionist Joe Cripps has been missing since October 2016. A concert is being held on Friday — his birthday — at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. Ed Steele Courtesy Percussionist Joe Cripps, once a ...

When: 8 p.m. Saturday March 30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Where: Royal Theater, 113 E. Main St. Information and Tickets: Royaltheater.org or 574-2489 It will be a night for a world of dancing when ...

Former Brave Combo percussionist Joe Cripps, third from the left, is shown playing with Brave Combo at McDavid Studio in 2008. Rachel Parker Star-Telegram Percussionist Joe Cripps, a former member of ...