IOTA, La. (Daily Advertiser)— Well-worn by thousands of feet, the original Tee Mamou-Iota Mardi Gras Festival wooden dance floor features the engraved names of 56 donors who helped to launch the ...

Eva Ybarra plays her accordion with such passion that it can feel like fury. Smashing the instrument’s buttons and stretching her arms out wide, then quickly contracting, Ybarra bends air to produce ...

The accordion is the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments. It don’t get no respect. It’s dismissed as a fixture of polka bands, yet most people don’t realize how in the hands of a capable player, the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Jim Jacobmeyer was introduced to accordion music when he was growing up in Belmond. A childhood friend of his father, Howard, married a woman from France who played accordion and taught ...