In 1971, he was inducted into the Michigan State Polka Music Association. He has been playing the accordion professionally since he was 14 years old and shows no sign of slowing down, even if the ...

These include a network of polka dance halls, clubs, festivals, newsletters, mail-order recordings outlets, accordion makers ... seemed to be stuck in their sheet music. Then, in 1956, Chicago's ...

Part of Texas has its own soundtrack: conjunto music. And a new generation ... Mexico over the last 150 years. The accordion influence came from the polka bands of Czech, Polish and German immigrants.

Good music, fellowship, and Just Accordions! Accordion and button box accordion players meet on every 2nd Thursday of the month for a fun night of pure accordion music of all types. You never know ...

He'd refuse, saying he'd worked his whole life to combat the corny stereotypes of polka music. "He was always trying to not let polkas be the butt of the joke, or the accordion be the butt of the ...

In the accordion's halcyon days in the United States ... still works part time in his Brisbane workshop amid small tools, dusty sheet music, pots of wax and dozens of accordions in various ...

producing music that is on par with any other accordion player who performs for polka lovers. The 17-year-old is the only student at his school, and possibly the youngest in the region ...

A casual listener would be forgiven for not knowing one kind of accordion music from another. But where two cultures in particular are concerned, the similarity comes with a century-old backstory ...