Although accordion music had been made popular by groups such ... Ayala is the perfect magnet for this mix. General wisdom among club managers is that tejano fans refuse to pay high cover charges ...

using call and response songs that “made music with their beaten bodies, never relinquishing the sounds of their homelands.” The accordion added its rich sound to this mix. Similar stories ...

Longtime local accordion teacher Marjorie Konrad ... “It’s fun to do and we get in free. The music is such an amazing mix from all over the world, and it’s a friendly crowd.” ...

Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into your head is an old man in a beret playing beautiful folk music in the corner of a French café, you ...

NEW YORK -- If you've heard music with an accordion, chances are you've heard Bill Schimmel playing it. Schimmel is a virtuoso accordionist and composer who's called New York home since attending ...

I’ve played most of my life and I have a son who took over my band. I was brought up with button accordion music; my grandpa played and my dad played and my brother played — and I played and ...

Guy Klucevsek, an accordion virtuoso who ventured far beyond polkas with experimental compositions, minimalistic structures and wide-ranging collaborations such as backing performance artist ...

And so forth. I hear your repair guys playing in the background there. Do you ever get sick of accordion music? Yeah, we do the repairs. And then Yakov is a very fine teacher and repair man.

Photo by Getty Images Meanwhile, as musicologist Joshua Horowitz observes, the accordion was “present at every stage of klezmer music in both the Old and New Worlds for at least the last hundred ...

When it comes to Texas music, the guitar gets all the attention, thanks to a long line of six-string immortals such as T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Clark Jr. But frankly, the ...