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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Zebrowski has been playing polka music since the mid-’70s. Not only that, but he is a multi-instrumentalist — able to play accordion, concertina, keyboard and bass. He brought his band ...

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 ...

Well, you’re in luck this weekend. The annual PorktoberQue will be held Friday and Saturday at the Houston County Farm Center in Dothan. The event, started in 2012 and sanctioned by the Kansas ...

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 ...

Conjunto has a thumping backbeat, plaintive vocals and shimmering accordion ... music is not true music because it's not on paper," he says. "They don't see it as music because there's no sheet ...