Renee Montagne speaks with Felix Contreras, co-host of NPR's Alt.Latino, about the link between Tex-Mex music and Eastern European waltzes and... How Mexico Learned To Polka A casual listener would be ...

Will Holshouser has played all kinds of music on the accordion, including Cajun, avant garde jazz and indie rock. He joins Fresh Air's Terry Gross in her studio to play features from his new album.

Beirut should win honors with this vid for 'best depiction of mustachioed debauchery set to a ukulele-accordion waltz.' The clip's preview pics had us expecting some fancy threads, S&M poses, and ...

On Summer Saturdays for more than 40 years at the SAC Park in Shrewsbury, accordion enthusiasts would come to hear Nils Lundin play polkas, waltzes and foxtrots. Lundin’s love for the accordion drove ...

Welcome to Cotati, where the accordion is king, the tuba is queen, and absolutely no one is taking themselves too seriously. Aug. 16 and 17, La Plaza Park will once again erupt in a joyful noise as ...

When it comes to Texas music, the guitar gets all the attention, thanks to a long line of six-string immortals such as T-Bone Walker, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Gary Clark Jr. But frankly, the instrument ...

HAUBSTADT, Ind. - As an 8-year-old, Helen (Kissel) Kiesel joyfully learned the accordion with help from a nun in Haubstadt. More than 60 years later, she's inspiring the same joy in others by playing ...