As part of the sister city exchange with Germany and Reading, the German-based HHC Reutlingen accordion club, Hohner Handharmonika und Akkordeon Club, will make its first appearance at the 67th annual ...

Beer flowed and brats sizzled Saturday during Vandergrift’s first-ever Bavarian-themed craft fair. “We’re hoping to do our best to bring more people to town,” said John Bieranoski, co-owner of ...

Humorist Brian Unger visits the studio of a Los Angeles accordion teacher, and learns that this oft-maligned instrument has been the key to some surprising romantic success for the few who master it.

” The music lessons didn’t take, but his lifelong love of the accordion never waned. Until COVID-19, Seeberger played twice a month for the German American Society, and regularly played at area ...

Alex Meixner is a Grammy-nominated musician and advocate...for polka music. Though he plays multiple instruments, including trumpet and drums, he's best known as an accomplished accordion player. He ...

One Chinese legend says the accordion is as old as music itself, that around 3,000 B.C., Emperor Huang Ti sent a scholar into the Western mountains charged with reproducing the song of the phoenix.

LA CROSSE (WKBT) -- The accordion is an instrument that is culturally important for many people. The instrument has been less popular in recent years, but the Tri-State Accordion Club players hope to ...

Marlin Zimmerman doesn’t think he personally popularized accordion music in Phoenix. “Someone must have been playing accordion before I got here in ’86,” Zimmerman said. “Don’t ask me who that would ...

As a young man, Erich Albus was a reluctant soldier in World War II, drafted into the German army when he was 18. “When my father went to the train with me,” Albus recalled of the day he reported for ...