The Bradford Accordion Band has been shortlisted for the 2026 Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Inspiration Award.

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.

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This versatile ...

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 instrument ...

Kevin Solecki, a Grammy-nominated accordionist who owns Carnegie Accordion, sells his own brand of the instrument and plays some of the most renowned brands. Solecki also offers private lessons.

DULUTH — This past February, celebrated accordion player Florian Chmielewski played his own 97th birthday party at the Cloquet VFW — and even tacked on a few more gigs after that in nearby Cromwell, ...

DILWORTH, Minn. - Dave Kolle estimates he has sold as many as 50,000 accordions throughout his career. Back in the accordion's heyday of the 1950s and '60s, he sold at least six or seven a day at ...

MASERU, Lesotho — Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" -– a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by ...

It’s hard to say why the accordion brings a smile to someone’s face and gets the toe tapping. Maybe it’s the whimsical shape. Perhaps it’s the unique sound. Scott Goree, the executive director of the ...