When Sergey Antonovich rediscovered a childhood passion for music, he found an unexpected application for his skills as an ...
More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after sitting in a library in Kiev for years, thanks to the nonprofit Klezmer ...
GRAND FORKS — Pews filled early on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 7, as many gathered to hear a wide range of performances by the Thursday Music Club, which celebrated its 100th annual Christmas Musicale at ...
The 34th annual Cotati Accordion Festival returned to La Plaza Park Saturday for the first of two days of live music on five stages that ranged from zydeco and jazz to rock, polka and cumbia.
The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...
Flaco Jiménez, the legendary accordion player who was perhaps the foremost ambassador for regional Tejano music in the 20th century, died at 86 on July 31st. According to a statement, Jiménez died ...
Co Down man Ken Hopkins repaired, refurbished, tuned and sold accordions for more than 30 years A Settimio Soprani Concert Grand accordion A Ballone Burini accordion A concertina by Lachenal & Co A ...
A North Eugene High School student crosses the stage with a beaming smile at the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration. The accordion strapped across her torso is nearly half her size, but ...
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 ...
Before there were robots, self-driving cars and AI, there were automated mechanical music machines: self-playing pianos, organs, even banjos and violins. And sitting in a piano storage warehouse in ...
When Horace Heidt brought his traveling talent show, the “Original Youth Opportunity Program”, presented by Phillip Morris Cigarettes, to Syracuse in April 1948, Gustav Rautenberg’s classmates at ...
Nestled in the charming town of Superior, Wisconsin, there’s a place where the air is filled with the melodious wheeze of a thousand squeezeboxes. It’s not a polka enthusiast’s fever dream – it’s the ...