Sixteen-year-old Matt Frank just wanted to be heard at the Slovenian Society Home in Euclid. The Concord Township teen’s fingers whisked across the keys on his diatonic button box accordion. “I just ...

NAMM 2011 PRESS RELEASE: Roland is pleased to announce the new FR-18 V-Accordion, the world's first digital diatonic accordion. With this groundbreaking yet affordable instrument, traditional folk ...

Jim Gilman is ready to rage. Playing to a crowd chomping on schnitzel and gulping down lagers in the dining room of Old World during the weekend of Karneval (the German equivalent of Mardi Gras) on a ...

It's a well-known story — the one where European conquerors ravaged the New World with disease in the 15th century. That story repeated itself, in a very different way, in the early part of the 20th ...

As one of a handful of newcomers to the accordion, Alfonso Hall put the instrument on his lap Thursday and began tapping the buttons during his first lesson from the Conjunto Heritage Taller. Hall, 81 ...

This is not only one of the most favorite Russian musical instruments, which is perfect for performing folk songs and singing at the dinner table, but it also ...

Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69. The Crowley native is best known for ...

To understand the heart and soul of the rich musical tradition of Newfoundland and Labrador, it’s always going to be a bit of a squeeze. The button accordion, with its either one row of buttons or two ...

Accordion maker Emmanuel Pariselle welcomes Andy Cutting and Katie Howson to his workshop in France, with a unique insight in to how the instruments are made and played. Show more Emmanuel Pariselle ...