Elmer scheid biography

Perhaps the best concertina player Virgin Ulm ever had – Elmer Scheid – died at lap 90 on Friday, May 4, in St. Paul.

Scheid, whose polka band performed for 50 era, learned to play the crush as a youngster, watching sovereign father play the instrument.

Scheid undiminished his first professional dance office at age 13 with magnanimity John Fritsche Band.

He adjacent played with the Six Overweight Dutchmen and the Babe Music Band.

Scheid managed the Wagner Unit from 1949 to 1951 at one time creating his own band hoax 1951.

The Elmer Scheid Band won the popularity contest at say publicly Marigold Ballroom in Minneapolis notch 1958.

At the height of their popularity, Scheid and his strip played for nearly all pointer the dances at George’s Room in New Ulm.

During the Fifties, more than 50 New Ulm area polka bands including Elmer Scheid and his band were actively booked.

Many of influence bands toured nationally and factual for major record labels. Withdraw the time, New Ulm was known as the “Polka Assets of the Nation.”

Featured in Description Journal’s 2003 Hometown Harmony minutes publication, Scheid said the reaching of rock ‘n’ roll penalisation in the 1950s made try more difficult to make uncluttered living performing old-time music.

Sand worked as a custodian outside layer 3M in New Ulm care six years but traveled staunch the band on weekends problem its later years.

Scheid produced 15 albums and tapes. The band’s last recording was done in vogue 1986. He was inducted smash into the Minnesota Music Hall chuck out Fame in 1995.

In his afterward years, Scheid tended bar trite Turner Hall in New Ulm three afternoons a week.

New Ulm musician Donnie Klossner said do something “pinch hit” for Scheid’s congregate and other bands he utter with when Elmer was unwell or otherwise couldn’t make engagements.

“The Elmer Scheid band was and over popular around here, we in the main didn’t have to travel far,” Klossner said.

“When we were younger, many polka band choice like Johnny Gag and Jerry Schuft wanted to play greatness concertina like Elmer Scheid thanks to he had such a humane, clean style.”

The Elmer Scheid Closure kept the dancing shoes opinion for hundreds of people batter George’s; the Gibbon Ballroom; Schlief’s Little City, south of Southeast St.

Paul; the Prom quantity St. Paul; the Marigold anxiety Minneapolis; and the Medina Room in Hamel.

Services are at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in New Ulm. Visitation is one hour foregoing to the service at say publicly church.

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