Hochzeit – Dutch Hops: Colorado Music of the Germans from Russia 1865-1965

This book covers the history of Dutch Hop in the Colorado through interviews of band members, daily accounts in the life of these musicians, and discussions about instruments.

About the Author: Mark Warren is a former News Director for KOA Radio in Denver, and currently is a regional Broadcast Executive for Associated Press (AP). Warren has won awards as a former host of the Sunday Polka Party (KFKA-AM in Greeley, 1975-1981 and KUAD/AM in Windsor, 1981-1982) for promotion of polka music regionally. Warren has performed musically with Colorado and Nebraska Dutch Hop and polka bands since age seventeen, and he led his own band for five years in the early 1980s.