Guest Artists 
2007 Western Senators
2007 Western Senators
Founded in Calgary in 1976, the Western Senators continue performing and promoting Cleveland style polka music across Canada and in the United States as they approach their 30th anniversary.
The group boasts 12 albums, with five currently available, including their recently released “PolkaRama, Volume Three…PolkaMania!!”
The Western Senators have been featured in two made for TV movies…1995’s Frankie and Walter, One More Time…with America’s Polka King, Frankie Yankovic, and Canada’s Grammy winning Polka King, Walter Ostanek…as well as this year’s “Cult of Walt” which was broadcast on October 10th, 2006 on the Bravo Television Channel.
Other achievements include their own television series, PolkaRama, along with Ostanek, which has been running in several markets since 2002, and is available in VHS and DVD format. They also have signed to do an upcoming new series, due to be filmed in May of 2007, for syndication in Canada and the USA.
The Western Senators have been featured in main showrooms at casinos in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and closed the National Slovenian Style Polka Music Awards in Cleveland in 2005, along with Walter Ostanek.
Band members include two originals…Brian Sklar (keys and fiddle), and Joe Schultz (accordion), and Mark Leik (accordion and organ), Aaron Sklar (drums), Wayne Kuntz (bass), and Todd Lueck (guitar and banjo).
The group boasts 12 albums, with five currently available, including their recently released “PolkaRama, Volume Three…PolkaMania!!”
The Western Senators have been featured in two made for TV movies…1995’s Frankie and Walter, One More Time…with America’s Polka King, Frankie Yankovic, and Canada’s Grammy winning Polka King, Walter Ostanek…as well as this year’s “Cult of Walt” which was broadcast on October 10th, 2006 on the Bravo Television Channel.
Other achievements include their own television series, PolkaRama, along with Ostanek, which has been running in several markets since 2002, and is available in VHS and DVD format. They also have signed to do an upcoming new series, due to be filmed in May of 2007, for syndication in Canada and the USA.
The Western Senators have been featured in main showrooms at casinos in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, and closed the National Slovenian Style Polka Music Awards in Cleveland in 2005, along with Walter Ostanek.
Band members include two originals…Brian Sklar (keys and fiddle), and Joe Schultz (accordion), and Mark Leik (accordion and organ), Aaron Sklar (drums), Wayne Kuntz (bass), and Todd Lueck (guitar and banjo).