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 ...

The accordion is the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments. It don’t get no respect. It’s dismissed as a fixture of polka bands, yet most people don’t realize how in the hands of a capable player, the ...

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Still, Kansas City has a rich accordion history thanks to Joan Cochran Sommers, an icon who is still conducting, teaching and playing the accordion. In Joan Cochran Sommers’ day, accordion salesmen ...

Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the ...