The accordion was the first instrument Joan Grauman ever heard. As the daughter of Joseph Tacchetti, an Italian immigrant and an award-winning accordionist, Grauman was handed a musical legacy that ...

Rachel Kron, 8, performs on the accordion at a youth competition March 8 during the National Accordion Association Convention in Plano. Kron, one of Elena Fainshtein’s piano students, transitioned to ...

THEY ALL have histories spanning centuries. But the accordion, ukulele and klezmer music are experiencing a rebirth. Those Old World, old-timey sounds that used to be more hip to your grandparents are ...

In Lesotho, a style of traditional accordion music called Famo has become entangled with deadly gang rivalries. Once the ...

On its own merit, the accordion is a curious combination of sound creation: the platypus, the Frankenstein monster of musical instruments. On its right side lie a couple octaves grafted from the piano ...

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Accordion music filled the air at the Orange County Market Place Sunday when The Biq Squeeze, the 2nd annual accordion festival, blew into town. Accomplished and amateur accordion players alike played ...

Matt Hensley, lifelong resident of San Diego and environs, loves the accordion. Any kind of accordion. Any kind of accordion music. Get close to him while he’s squeezing away at one, and he’ll offer ...

Before Miley Cyrus and her twerking, before hip-hop, grunge, disco and rock ‘n’ roll, there was accordion music. On Saturday, aficionados of the instrument associated with zydeco, polkas and a more ...

Walter Kuehr made his own name by making a name for what he called "the hippest instrument on the planet": the accordion. He died earlier this month at age 59. Walter Kuehr was known as the accordion ...