The Slovenian Society Home in Euclid will become the “Woodstock of Polka Music” when the 38th annual Super Button Box Bash takes place April 24. Sixty accordions will take the stage throughout ...

The diatonic accordion, known as the button box, is a traditional instrument in Slovenian folk music and has attracted nationwide popularity in the U.S. and Canada.

The Accordion: Your New Beach MusicThe annual outdoor music festival "Wassermusik" has just begun. The concerts, which will be taking place along the River Spree, will be featuring accordionists ...

After a four-year stint in the U.S. Coast Guard, he took his one-of-a-kind Cirelli Accordion (140 bass buttons, 43 piano keys, roughly 2,000 parts, wooden guts, plastic shell, steel and aluminum ...

Tchaikovsky or Devo. “You’ll find the accordion in nearly every style of music, worldwide,” said Joe Petosa Jr., third-generation owner of Petosa Accordions in Lynnwood at 19503 56th Ave. W.

Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched conjunto sound all over the world and across genres.

Over the past 15 years or so, as guitar histrionics came to seem gauche and an infusion of global folk music found its way into indie rock, the accordion has surfaced more frequently. It appears ...

Throughout the record he also plays clarinet, keys, accordion, music box, glockenspiel, and more. Indeed, Jokers is a monstrously clever collection of music. Along with guitarist Federico Casagrande ...

Ruby has watched the group transition from a vibrant gathering of accordion enthusiasts — with an additional 180 social members listening in or dancing to the music in its heyday — to a ...

It's suddenly cool again." Ippolito decried the decline of accordion music beginning in the 1960s. "Rock music knocked the accordion right out of the box," he told the Times Union in 1997.

When the gifted teen shows up at Squeezebox Night, he needs no music. "I just like the way it sounds," Esperé says, of the accordion. It is one of five musical instruments that he plays.