National Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum
605 East 222nd Street
Euclid, OH 44123
USA
E-mail: Polkashop@aol.com
Phone: 216-261-3263
Toll Free: 1-800-66POLKA
Fax: 216-261-4134
Floyd Castagneri, Minnestoa's "Mister Polka Man," immersed himseld in Cleveland-Style
polkas, hosting the Iron Range's longest-running polka radio show for eighteen years
and taking the lead in polka promotion. He fist played buttonbox at age ten. Floyd
took top honors in a Pueblo, Colorado, contest in 1981. Inspired by Joe Mlakar and
Frank Yankovic, he played for twelve years with the Wast-West Buttonaires an dperformed
for charities, nursing homes and even the Governor of his state. He served as President
of the Range Polka Club, from 1972 to 1979, and was a member of Minnesota's Polka
Hall of Fame committee. Floyd was homored by the Slovenian National Home in Chisholm,
Minnesota, in 1987, and by Ironworld USA in 1993. Durin his career, Floyd amassed
more than 1,000 polka albums and 280 accordion figurines. Floyd's own words best
express his commitment to Cleveland-Style polkas: "It aint music 'til it's polka!"
Inducted in 1994
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