Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define the Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hohner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the ...

Music has been my life ever since I grabbed the accordion,' he told Texas Monthly a couple of years back. 'I can talk to my accordion ... I can make it happy or make it cry.' ...

Flaco Jimenez, the legendary accordionist from San Antonio who won multiple Grammys and helped expand the popularity of conjunto, Tejano and Tex-Mex music, died Thursday. He was 86. Jimenez’s death ...

Over a career that spanned 70 years, Jimenez' playing came to define Tex-Mex music and carried the tradition-drenched conjunto sound all over the world and across genres.

Others at the Apollo Maennerchor Club in Sharon quickly joined in playing their instruments. Friday was the start of the weekend-long National Button Accordion Festival at the Maennerchor Club.

The right side of an accordion has a button or piano keyboard, while the left side has buttons that play bass notes and chords. Each button or key controls a different reed inside the instrument.

Judy Tenuta, Accordion-Playing ‘Love Goddess’ of Comedy, Dies at 72 She cracked comedy’s top ranks with a memorably outlandish act in the 1980s, when the stand-up scene was largely male.

Accordion music brings her back to those days when her husband persuaded her to play hooky from her job as a teacher. She’d hop onto his motorcycle with his button box—a style of accordion ...