Stanley C. Mroz’s living room in Walker is filled with amplifiers, mixers, and all of the equipment needed to run a band. It would be easy to believe that Mroz, like any other local musician, is still ...

Of course Polish accordion player Lidia Kaminska gets this question a lot from Americans: "How about a polka?" Not a chance. Frankly, she's not interested. She's Bach, not "In Heaven There Is No Beer.

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.

He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music. By Richard Sandomir Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion player ...

In 1822 a Berliner named Friedrich Buschmann built a hard-to-handle, unpleasant-sounding musical instrument he called the handaoline. Seven years later it would be refined, patented and named the ...

It doesn't matter if your favorite music is hard rock, there is just something about an accordion polka that sets the feet to tapping. Roy Ott, pastor at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage, has ...