Editor’s note: The following article, titled “The Leo Majek Orchestra – From the Czech Lands to Texas,” was written by Gary E. McKee.
The Majek Orchestra is one of the few polka and waltz bands in the United States that is still performing that can trace its beginnings back to Central Europe in the late 1800s.
Leo Majek began playing his accordion in his hometown of Slavkov, Moravia and never stoppe…