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    The Shanes were formed in 1991 in Trier, Germany. The musical influences that they plopped on the table constituted a wide and sometimes dissimilar range of Irish and Eastern European folk, country, rock, punk, and French chansons. Collectively, when impregnated with a polka beat, the Shanes carved a real niche in the German indie scene. The term "hardpolka" was coined to describe their style. In ...more


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