The hum of an accordion might transport you to the streets of Paris or a drafty Italian restaurant with red and white checkered tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles. Maybe polka comes to ...

A musical family history inspired Helmi Harrington to create Superior's accordion museum. Helmi Harrington's mother survived World War II by entertaining troops with accordion music and taught ...

EVERETT — Strap on this 25-pound musical breastplate, give it a squeeze, and you’re guaranteed to be the life of the party. Why sing the blues when you can play the accordion? With undertones of ...

Jim Gilman is ready to rage. Playing to a crowd chomping on schnitzel and gulping down lagers in the dining room of Old World during the weekend of Karneval (the German equivalent of Mardi Gras) on a ...

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and ...

This week, finely honed competitors from around the globe descended on the Washington, D.C. area for the World Cup of accordion music. (Soundbite of accordion music) ELLIOTT: It's America's turn to ...

NEW HAVEN - Southern Connecticut State University president Joe Bertolino decided in 2019 to resume accordion lessons so he could play for his aging parents, but little did he know how profound that ...

Daniel Weber of Altoona plays his accordion “at 10 places a month” for nursing home residents in addition to holding down a full-time job as a service engineer at Blair Sign Co. “It makes them happy,” ...

Ott said playing without music allows the musician to concentrate on the music and the sound. "And it's a hassle dragging music around" Ott said with a grin. Accordion playing has been very ...