Don Bitterlich’s Chevy Caprice was loaded with everything he needed for his gig that night at an Italian restaurant in ...

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and ...

Ott said playing without music allows the musician to concentrate on the music and the sound. "And it's a hassle dragging music around" Ott said with a grin. Accordion playing has been very ...

Lou Gamber plays his digital accordion at Narcisi Winery in Gibsonia on June 26, 2025. Some may know him as Lou, but to many around Pittsburgh, he’s known as the Accordion Man. Louis Gamber is 85 and ...

EVERETT — Strap on this 25-pound musical breastplate, give it a squeeze, and you’re guaranteed to be the life of the party. Why sing the blues when you can play the accordion? With undertones of ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

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 ...

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 ...