Alex Meixner

Grammy Nominated Musician & Producer

Spring Break! First Festival of the Year and More!

Green BeerStarting tonight, Alex and Tommy (along with Joe for tonight and tomorrow) will be rocking the Hofbräu in Panama City Beach, FL for St Patty’s Day/ Spring Break/ perennial celebration of Oktoberfest through Sunday! If you’re in the neighborhood come on in and get a liter or 3, the best German food on the beach and Polka your brains out. If you’re not here, the weather seems to be thawing up north enough to escape now!

After PCB, Alex will be conducting some educational clinics in an elementary school in Pearland, Texas where the illustrious Brian Berlin, music teacher extraordinaire has hundreds of elementary school kids playing accordion. It’s a sight to behold!

Then continuing on into Tomball, TX– where Alex where do a special, unplugged solo concert at Landhaus Nikodemus on Thursday, March 26 to kickoff the Tomball German Festival, where The Alex Meixner Band will be appearing all weekend… Polkabeat.com proudly sponsors the band annually for our first festival appearances of the year. This is a great, intimate festival on the streets of a cool, little town– and it’s completely free admission!

Finally, Alex will have one more solo concert/ clinic in Pasadena, TX on Monday, March 30 for Heritage Arts Productions. Sheila Lee is a wonderful accordion educator in the Houston area and has presented Alex for the past few years– it’s a great little scene.  (Psst…the concert portion of the session will be broadcast via a live stream.  Stay tuned for details!)

Hope to see y’all out there.

Alex

Alex’s Notes from Edinburgh, Scotland – Part 1

Alex Meixner and Gary Blair
Alex Meixner and Gary Blair

I’ve now been in Scotland for almost 2 days and it’s been a whirlwind of activity. The little tweets, fb posts, videos, pics being posted capture some of the action– and I’m so thankful for Karen and Lori getting this stuff out to you… At the same time, I wanted to take a few moments to write a little more so I don’t forget everything– and so I can share with my friends all of this stuff.

I arrived in the middle of a rainy, cold, dreary day. Although I slept on both of my flights, the sleep wasn’t great– and I was coming off a very busy northeast band tour that was sleep deprived. After traveling through Edinburgh a bit, I got to my flat and did get to crash for a bit- before my dear friend Gary Blair arrived with the accordion I’m living with all week! I don’t get to see Gary too often, so I treasure visiting with a friend and artist I respect greatly. (and am so appreciative of him allowing me to use one of his signature accordions!) [Read more…]