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
Ken Tomsick has been involved in the Cleveland cultural scene for decades as a singer,
cultural committees, videographer, and polka promoter. Ken's videotaping of the
first three Awards Show of the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame starting
in 1988 to help preserve the events for posterity at a time when video cameras were
something new. Ken was a member of the Slovenian barbershop quartet "Four Feathers
in the mid-1940s. The groups sang on the KennyBass Television show, and at cultural
programs. Ken served as treasurer of the United Slovenian Society of Cleveland in
the 1980s. He joined Tony Petkovsek's Cleveland Slovenian Radio Club, where he and
his late wife Anne volunteered for many years. Ken's five sons are all musicians,
and he has been very supportive of his youngest son Joey Tomsick and the JTO band.
Inducted in 2012
National Cleveland Style Polka Hall of Fame
Trustees Honor Roll Recipient
(CLARENCE) KEN TOMSICK, SR.
1926 - 2016
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