The accordion is not a punchline. Between bad jokes (What's the difference between an onion and an accordion? People cry when they chop up onions), double entendres (as the Who sang, "Mama's got a ...

First came National Polka Month in January, then the zydeco and Cajun strains of Mardi Gras in February, then local shows by The Klezmatics, Those Darn Accordions and C.J. Chenier last month. And ...

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: ...

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Joe Szabo first started to learn the accordion when he was six years old. He would never have guessed that when he was 60 he would be playing his accordion for others fulltime. When Szabo was laid off ...

Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for ...

Not everybody likes the sound it makes, but Elwyn Ellis describes the accordion as a gift to music. “The accordion makes such beautiful music,” said Ellis, 61. “You don’t really need a group, but it’s ...

Ah yes, the 555 piano project. Be it the Atari Punk Console, or some other 555 based synthesizer, Hackers just love to hear what the 555 can do when attached to a few passives and a speaker. It’s a ...

Accordionist Tom Torriglia of San Francisco has declared June to be "International Accordion Awareness Month." He joins New Hampshire accordionist Gary Sredzienski in trying to explain why they love ...