ARLINGTON, VA — . -- When he was 5, John Moceo announced that he wanted to play the accordion. Chalking it up to childhood whimsy, his mother pushed him to play something else, anything else -- guitar ...

MOST people think of the accordion, if they think of it at all, as a social instrument, wheezing out polkas and folk tunes. The sound of it brings to mind French cafes, Mexican plazas, German beer ...

IN ALL of the columns I've written on local music, I've never shone my Nightwatchman's lantern on an accordion player. So let me present Manny Bobenrieth, an accordion player of the highest order who ...

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fetes Krist Novoselic later this year, it'll be well-timed recognition. Not for his band—Nirvana certainly doesn't need the publicity—but for his instrument. He may ...

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 ...

Musician and accordion designer Gilberto Reyes met us at the door of Hohner’s national headquarters then located in historic Glen Allen, Virginia. He and I had many mutual friends but had never met in ...

SWOYERSVILLE – Imagine that someone told you about this little church bazaar on the West Side, with mouth-watering ethnic foods and a smokin’ band, but you weren’t sure where it was. Well, earlier ...

I remember with great clarity, as I tapped my foot to the infectious melody that Johnnie Zibert was squeezing out of his accordion last May at a polka festival in Franklin, turning to my husband and ...

The accordion is a peculiar instrument. It is cumbersome. It has a lowbrow reputation. It can be used as winter quarters by mice. It has a lamentable tendency to lure performers into horrific displays ...