Jeff Heinz

Jeff's been involved with polka basically since he was born. His dad, Orv played with polka bands from high school on. Playing with Duke Wright to start and in the late 60's to mid 70's with Duke Wright and the "Nu Tones". Jeff got his start from his Dad and also from his Grandpa Orv, who played with Eddie Olshanski and "The Metropolitons". Jeff was very fortunate to fill in for both of these bands in the 70's. JoAnn, Jeff's mom, played the piano and dragged the family along to Orv's playing jobs..

Jeff has two brothers, Mark and Corey. Mark is also a musician, playing with the "Nu Tones", "Band Boys", Jerry Goetsch and also with The Polka Partners. He now plays regularly with The Jim Busta Band and Gary's Ridgeland Dutchmen. Corey, well, he's a polka "wanna-be" and just likes listening to the music. Jeff's first dance job was with his brother Mark, and Brian Barnetske when he was nine years old. Through the years he filled in for many bands, his main two were, "The Band Boys" and his current band "Neal Zunker and The Music Connection". He's played with this band for over twenty-four years. You can see pictures of Jeff and The Music Connection below!

Jeff has been married over 19 years. He and his wife have two wonderful boys, Alex (16) and Nicholas (13), and "Buddy" their dog. (He is a border collie/black lab mix) Diane works at Aspirus Hospital in Central billing and helps out with requests on the Polka Jamboree on occasion. Alex enjoys watching football, baseball,fishing, bow & arrow and is turning out to be quite the hunter bagging three bucks in the last 3 years, all 8 pointers or bigger. He also went to state and nationals for trap shooting. Nicholas, enjoys watching movies, baseball,football, fishing, swimming, archery, basketball and also went to the state and national trap shoot this year. Nicholas just bagged his first buck this year a nice 7 pointer. And yes, they both do enjoy polkas and texting on their new cell phones.

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