14th Annual Slovenian Sausage Festival

Smoked sausages and polka music attracted a crowd of more than 1,200 to SNPJ Farm in Kirtland, Ohio, for the 14th Annual Slovenian Sausage Festival hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum on a warm and sunny Wednesday, September 13, 2017.

More from the Sausage Festival

Impromptu Polka Jam

Winner of judge's choice for best sausage

Slovenian? You must go to Cleveland

Slovenian Consul General Jure Zmauc spoke at a farewell event at the Polka Hall of Fame.  He is going back to Slovenia after 6 years in Cleveland and the US.  He told a story of a Slovenian family who came to the US with no money and didn’t speak English.  They were told to go to Cleveland where they were welcomed.  

http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/slovenian/slovenian.htm

Polka Hall of Fame president introduces Slovenian Consul

Joe Valencic, president of the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum in Euclid Ohio, introduced Slovenian Consul General Jure Zmauc who is going back to Slovenia after 6 years in Cleveland and the US.  

http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/slovenian/slovenian.htm

Slovenian Consul General Jure Zmauc is ‘that fellow from Stajerja’

Marie Pivik led a Slovenian song at the farewell event at the Polka Hall of Fame for Slovenian Consul General Jure Zmauc who is going back to Slovenia after 6 years in Cleveland and the US.  She chose the song Sem Fantic Z Zelenega Stajerja   which roughly translates to ‘I’m the fellow from Stajerja’ and Consul Zmauc is from Stajerja.

http://www.clevelandpeople.com/groups/slovenian/slovenian.htm

Slovenians invite you to One World Day August 23, 2015

August Pust, dean of the Cleveland Slovenian community, and Euclid Councilman Jim O’Hare encourage everyone to visit the Slovenian and other Cultural Gardens on One World Day on August 23, 2015.  This is the official, City of Cleveland approved, 70th annual One World Day in the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. The men were at the Polka Hall of Fame in Euclid, Ohio.   #owd2015.  See more at http://clevelandoneworldday.org/