You can find him on Youtube at the channel “Max Thompson Music”, which has been online since 2017. He is currently learning guitar, hand percussion, steel pans, and cajon, in addition to continuing to expand his palette with Native American Flute.
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In certain instances, he has helped merge the organ into contemporary worship with a full band as well. It’s a shame that UNO doesn’t have their own polka program.Since age 12 he has played the organ, primarily for hymn sings and funerals, with the occasional contemporary arrangement or holiday piece. “It’s something I really enjoy doing and am very passionate about. “If you went back six years ago and told me that I was going to be in my own polka band, I would have told you, ‘No way,’” Brettmann said. In the end, however, Brettmann is most content with the fact that he gets to do what he loves to do. “That legend Alex Meixner deserves a lot of credit, too, because he’s gotten us from where we were to where we are now,” Brettmann said.
Through his polka endeavours, Brettmann has met many of the elite accordion players in the world, such as national champion accordion player Cory Pesaturo, Grammy-winning polka artist Carl Finch and nationally acclaimed accordionist Alex Meixner. Steager, who is really responsible for all this.” I have many thanks for each and every one of them, along with my parents, who deserve a lot of credit, and Mr. My brother plays the trumpet in addition to the piano. “I sing in English and German, and I also play the valve trombone in addition to the accordion. “My drummer Turner, in addition to writing and arranging, sings in English, German, Czech and Russian,” Brettmann said. They have been writing their own polkas for quite some time, in addition to playing polka classics that keep the dance halls rocking. Steager came to us one day and asked for a recording of us playing to submit to the board to go play at the National Polka Festival in Ennis, Texas… we also played at a dance hall in Oklahoma while we were down there,” Brettmann said. It wasn’t long after they got the opportunity to tour through Oklahoma and Texas for the first time. Soon enough, four polka-playing preteens had their first paid performances, or gigs, as they are more colloquially known among the musical types. “We were all coming in at different times… but the people there seemed to like it.”
“My parents say that we didn’t sound that bad, but I know we weren’t that good either,” Brettmann said. They practiced one song, the “Beer Barrel Polka,” for about a month and soon enough had them playing open mics at the Kolache Korner in Prague. Steager got them playing at the Czech Heritage Days in Prague, Nebraska. “We got my brother Jackson on the piano and Luke, who I didn’t even know at the time, to play the tuba for us.” Steager teaches him the basic rhythm on the drums,” Brettmann said. Steager (the middle school’s band director) and my friend Turner comes in and is like ‘What is that?’, so Mr. “It was during marching band season, I was playing with Mr. The band’s first practice was about as inconsequential as it could be for Brettmann. However, UNO Sophomore Jameson Brettmann is living that story out in a uniquely Nebraskan way.īrettmann, a music entrepreneurship major here at UNO, has been playing in one of the hottest young polka bands in the Midwest, “The Happy Players.” They’ve played all kinds of Oktoberfests, polka festivals, weddings and any central European-style gettogethers for the past six years. To say this is something that happens every day would be something of a hyperbole. It’s almost cliche at this point-the story of a bunch of scrappy youngsters finding their way to the top by way of playing in a rock-n-roll band. CONTRIBUTOR “The Happy Players” polka band and band members Luke Eisenmenger (left), Jackson Brettmann (middle left), Jameson Brettmann (middle right) and Turner Blick (right) performed on April 24 in Norfolk, NE.
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