What do you get when you put 14 accordionists in one room? No, this isn't just another joke poking fun at the accordion. What you get is the 14-piece Main Squeeze Orchestra, an all-female, ...

IT may give one pause to hear a middle-age man recall a dream in which 18 young women cavort around in pigtails. But the subconscious mind of Walter Kuehr added an element that transformed it from ...

Still, Kansas City has a rich accordion history thanks to Joan Cochran Sommers, an icon who is still conducting, teaching and playing the accordion. In Joan Cochran Sommers’ day, accordion salesmen ...

Young accordion phenom Yeime Arrieta Ramos is the first female accordion player to ever win the Vallenato Kings Festival. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? This Indian City Sells 3,500 ...

Champlin did audition on all three instruments, with a borrowed accordian and a song she'd perfected with the help of a book conveniently entitled How to Play Accordian Today. And she did not even ...

Since 2008, a group of international female accordion players has been publishing a photo calendar of themselves in pin-up style and touring on the strength of a CD mix included within it. Two of ...

My friends, it is time to unburden yourselves of your secret. The one you’ve been harboring for years, hot-faced with shame. Admit it: You love the accordion. Oh how its chords stab straight to your ...

THEY ALL have histories spanning centuries. But the accordion, ukulele and klezmer music are experiencing a rebirth. Those Old World, old-timey sounds that used to be more hip to your grandparents are ...

Walter Kuehr was known as the accordion guru of Manhattan's Lower East Side. He was a performer, bandleader and shopkeeper and devoted his life to accordions and accordion music. Mr. Kuehr died last ...