“I had to be the kid who would have to go to the bedroom and play the accordion.” But now, more than 60 years later, he loves the instrument, to the point of having an accordion museum of sorts in his ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) Pulling the bellows apart with a flourish, Terry Ranstad launched into a haunting melody, right hand pausing on the accordion keyboard in firm chords. It took a second to identify the ...

"In the early 20th century, there were a lot of immigrants who came over from Sweden and Norway and that was the time that the accordion was popular," the 60-year-old accordionist said in a recent ...

The Accordion Club of Natrona Heights might need to change its name. These guys and gals aren’t just sitting around playing old-timey polkas — they can really jam. “We like to get together and kind of ...

When I heard about the Seattle Accordion Social, a monthly meetup on Beacon Hill for accordionists and accordion appreciators, I called the event’s co-director, John Giuliani, 71, on his landline (he ...

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 ...

This week, finely honed competitors from around the globe descended on the Washington, D.C. area for the World Cup of accordion music. (Soundbite of accordion music) ELLIOTT: It's America's turn to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...