Description: Polkacide, San Francisco's one and only hardcore polka band
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Polkacide has hung up their polka boots and are no longer available to play clubs, festivals and Octoberfests. But its wunderkind leader, Ward Abronski, has continued being active in the musical community, playing with Flipper at their recent SF show, as well as with his own bands. Ward's biggest venture to date is his Music is Medicine GoFundMe project, taking local San Francisco musicians to play for detainees at an ICE detention facility.
Click on this link to read more about Music is Medicine and to see how you can help.
Ward recently posted: " Music is Medicine ’s mission to take music into ICE Immigration Detention Facility gets more possible thanks to all your generous support so far. We are very close to hitting target for expenses for the first and most crucial step of this attempt. That target was to raise expenses for travel and honoraria for up to six players, round trip to Bakersfield twice, should that be necessary. It would please me no end to have that much and a small disaster cushion by the end of the week. I