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

This 9-year-old club's nearly 400 members are working hard to maintain Milwaukee's historic accordion music heritage. Think of Milwaukee music and what comes to mind? Perhaps the Violent Femmes or ...

SAN ANTONIO – The familiar sound of the time-honored accordion can still be heard at Lerma’s, the iconic former West Side nightclub that became an historic landmark. Part of the building is now a ...

Monday was World Accordion Day, but the instruments are always celebrated at A World of Accordions, the museum in Superior. Nearly 20 years ago, in 2005, Florian Chmielewski and his family played a ...

Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the ...

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 ...

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Legendary San Antonio musician Flaco Jiménez was hospitalized Sunday to deal with an unspecified “medical hurdle,” his family stated in a social media post. The 85-year-old accordion wizard and ...