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I love going to a nice German or Polish polka bar and having a few piwos and enjoying a good polka band. I normally don't listen to it much other than when I'm at a bar though.
I agree, Polka is great drinking music. Whether at bars or large gatherings like weddings or Oktoberfests.
Bob Blecha and his Bouncing Czechs, who were very populat around Humboldt, Nebraska.
"Cousin Fuzzy" had a polka band with its own prime-time live TV show on WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, back in the 50s. In those days, you could go up and down the AM radio dial anywhere in Wisconsin, and hear polkas on at least ten stations.
I love this video, of the Michigan Tech Pep Band---it's not a polka, but it brings tears to my eyes.:
Polka might be the best music to drink to, however you can't have it be the first music you put on. At about 1am throw on some polka and everyone will like it.
Went to the East 185th Street Festival in Cleveland awhile back, and we met up with a friend's parents, who are Slovenian. We were sitting in a tent with a polka band, and my friend's dad asked me if I wanted to dance. He huffed and puffed the whole way through it, exclaiming "I can't keep up with these Polish polkas!"
We do tend to use the entire dance floor. When I was a kid and we'd go to big family weddings, my grandmother and all her sisters, and my dad's sisters and cousins, would kick off their shoes and dance the night away in their stocking feet.
I remember "Polka Varieties" show on channel 5 in Cleveland years ago.
And the Sunday morning polka parties on the radio! I used to like to crank that stuff up when I went to the beach on Sunday mornings.
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Loved the Michigan Tech Oompa-pah-pah Band! 
When I was a kid and we'd go to big family weddings, my grandmother and all her sisters, and my dad's sisters and cousins, would kick off their shoes and dance the night away in their stocking feet.
