When he grew up in this city in the 1940s, people hired live bands for weddings, not DJs, and accordions were a versatile asset. Now that he is retired from Matt's Music on Oliver Street, his daughter ...

Go check out squeezebox sounds from across the world at SA’s International Accordion Festival this weekend. Like the instrument itself, the International Accordion Festival is one of the most unique ...

It’s hard to say why the accordion brings a smile to someone’s face and gets the toe tapping. Maybe it’s the whimsical shape. Perhaps it’s the unique sound. Scott Goree, the executive director of the ...

Hamilton Middle School band teacher Priscilla Shaw poses with instruments she's picking up from the Bringing Music to Life instrument distribution day. Music teachers from across Colorado gathered ...

Accordionist "Weird Al" Yankovic this week put a Houston date on his upcoming tour: He'll play July 14 at the Alice and George Brown Theater. That tour is part of the parodist's surprise resurgence: ...

Musicians of Sound Trek, a multinational traditional Korean music band based in Seoul, perform ahead of an interview with ...

Kevin Solecki, a Grammy-nominated accordionist who owns Carnegie Accordion, sells his own brand of the instrument and plays some of the most renowned brands. Solecki also offers private lessons.

The last time I spoke on the phone with Weird Al Yankovic, in 2004, he predicted the accordion would once again become America’s most popular instrument. I laughed, thinking he was kidding, but it was ...

The Kongos bring a sound you don’t often hear in rock music: accordion. The band, made up of brothers Johnny, Danny, Jesse and Dylan, is getting lots of attention on rock radio with the hits “I’m Only ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Antonio Romero had waited all night in a packed arena here for the band to play his favorite song, a brassy, sultry cumbia he had danced to as a teenager in Mexico City. It had been ...