Only his son, Stanley C. Mroz Jr., 62, learned to love the polka music the way he did and now Stan Jr. plays in the band with Stanley Sr. “It has been fun to have my son play with me the last ...

After a four-year stint in the U.S. Coast Guard, he took his one-of-a-kind Cirelli Accordion (140 bass buttons, 43 piano keys, roughly 2,000 parts, wooden guts, plastic shell, steel and aluminum ...

From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett -- Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March -- From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the Cajun accordion as identity symbol / Mark F. DeWitt ...

Ask musician Ed Goldberg and the answer is simple. “It’s happy music,” the accordion player said. “People, as soon as they enter into a building and they hear a polka band, they’re happy.” ...

The Accordion Player of Apple Street sits on his stoop. He’s tucked away on the side of his black-shuttered house, hidden from view. But the melody drifts out and away. The wheeze of the four ...

Amid the hip-hop, towering over the pervasive bro-country and emo pop, musicians Addie Hejl and Jameson Brettmann stand out among peers. Both of them love the accordion, the old-fashioned, hand-held ...