Go check out squeezebox sounds from across the world at SA’s International Accordion Festival this weekend. Like the instrument itself, the International Accordion Festival is one of the most unique ...

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The genre is most closely associated with Louisiana, but one musicologist points out its entire "corridor" runs from the Bayou City up to Lafayette.

Ah, the homegrown heroes. Emerging from South Texas, tejano and conjunto often get jumbled into the same category, so we’ll break them down first by instrument. Conjunto is played with the accordion, ...

The 34th annual Cotati Accordion Festival returned to La Plaza Park Saturday for the first of two days of live music on five stages that ranged from zydeco and jazz to rock, polka and cumbia.

Playing folk music in an urban setting in the 21st century is a tricky business. Christian Kuffner, the ringleader of New Orleans' Zydepunks, has seen it go bad. "We saw a zydeco band in Massachusetts ...

When you think of accordion, you think of European polka or folk music. Hanzhi Wang wants you to think of Bach and Piazzolla. On Sunday, Oct. 13, the China-born Wang brings her accordion to Leo Rich ...

Celso Piña, one of Latin America’s most beloved accordion players and singer-songwriters, died of a heart attack in his hometown of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. His record label, La Tuna Group, ...