Sixteen-year-old Matt Frank just wanted to be heard at the Slovenian Society Home in Euclid. The Concord Township teen’s fingers whisked across the keys on his diatonic button box accordion. “I just ...

Close to 70 Lõõtspill (diatonic button accordion) players congregated on Saaremaa on Saturday, the largest to have done so, according to participants. Musicians traveled to Estonia's largest island in ...

As one of a handful of newcomers to the accordion, Alfonso Hall put the instrument on his lap Thursday and began tapping the buttons during his first lesson from the Conjunto Heritage Taller. Hall, 81 ...

The Slovenian Society Home in Euclid will become the “Woodstock of Polka Music” when the 38th annual Super Button Box Bash takes place April 24. Sixty accordions will take the stage throughout the day ...

Famed accordionist Flaco Jiménez turns 75 just days after performing in Houston Saturday. Jiménez has spent nearly all of those years playing music, first as a child standing on a Lone Star beer box ...

In 1962, teenager Carlos “Chalito” Johnson and his brothers Juan, Raul and Gabriel formed Los Paisanos in San Antonio. The legendary conjunto group was honored at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's ...

The village of Terchová in north-west Slovakia is renowned for its collective vocal and instrumental music, performed by three-, four- or five-member string ensembles with a small two-string bass or ...