Watching Flaco Jimenez play his button accordion is like looking back in time. His grandfather started playing an accordion in cantinas and family parties along the Texas/Mexican border around the ...

SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...

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 ...

To an outsider, the scene is incredible: In the cramped living room of a first-floor apartment on scruffy East 14th Street in San Leandro, music blares and nobody complains. Los Trujillo is rehearsing ...

May 24—SHARON — Dave Bey nailed a song on the button — the button accordion, that is. "Sounded good," a fellow accordion enthusiast hollered to Bey, a Kernersville, N.C., resident. Others at the ...

ORD — The Fabulous Accordion Festival grew from a desire to keep creativity churning in Ord during the past several years of the pandemic shutdown. “During COVID and while our theater was closed, we ...

The Slovenian Society Home in Euclid will become the “Woodstock of Polka Music” when the 38th annual Super Button Box Bash takes place April 24. Sixty accordions will take the stage throughout the day ...