The hum of an accordion might transport you to the streets of Paris or a drafty Italian restaurant with red and white checkered tablecloths and candles stuck in Chianti bottles. Maybe polka comes to ...

The accordion’s journey from immigrant stages to mainstream America was shaped by Italian performers, makers, and teachers.

Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her wonderful instrument and its colourful history. Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into ...

The accordion is not a punchline. Between bad jokes (What's the difference between an onion and an accordion? People cry when they chop up onions), double entendres (as the Who sang, "Mama's got a ...

In the local lore, it has become known as the Night of the Accordions, a memorable Friday evening last June when Tom Torriglia led his band of a dozen accordion players on a series of daring raids ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. In 1974, when Anthony Schulz was six years old, his father Werner bought him an instrument at a North Melbourne music shop. Instead of a ...

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 ...

Google Doodle celebrated the ‘accordion’ on Thursday, a German musical instrument patented on this day in 1829, referring to it as a folk musician's “main squeeze.” This free-reed instrument with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Matthias Matzke describes his accordion music as 'symphonic rock'Sonja Hübner Accordionist Matthias Matzke has a deep passion for ...