Eddie Blazonczyks Versatones

The Versatones classic six piece format and multi-influential roots have developed from a mixture of past Rock & Roll experience, Country & Western, Cajun, and Tex-Mex music. But it's the progressive sound which the Versatones have achieved with their six pieces which has modernized polka music. Heralded as "today's true alternative dance music", this is no longer your grandparents' polka!

Born in 1967, Eddie Blazonczyk Jr was raised in the music industry. Obviously influenced by his father's career, he followed in his footsteps playing polka music and by 1989, he was touring with the Versatones as well. In 1997, after playing and singing alongside his father the previous 8 years, Eddie Blazonczyk Jr took over the operations of the Versatones. In 2002, Eddie Blazonczyk Sr retired from the band due to health reasons. The following year, Eddie Jr and the Versatones received their 14th Grammy nomination for their recording "My Father's Shoes". Today Eddie Jr and the Versatones proudly carry on a legacy started over 40 years ago on the South Side of Chicago, the evolution and advancement of polka music and their heritage. To see Eddie Blazonczyk's Versatones perform "live", you will truly understand why they have been proclaimed the Nations 1 Polka Band!



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