How do you measure civilization? By its art? By its great bridges and buildings? By its ability to be more often at peace than at war? Well, maybe, but I`ll take something like Fred Anderson`s ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

A ring of suspected con artists was charged Friday with preying on hundreds of Latino families by offering free accordion lessons to get credit information they used to bilk victims of $500,000, ...

Nick Saban could have been one of the world’s greatest accordion players. Instead, he became one of college football’s legendary coaches. The Crimson Tide football coach said on The Dan Patrick Show ...

Judy Santsche was 12 years old and wanted to play the piano, which was, she said, beyond the family budget. When group accordion lessons on a rented instrument became available, she remembers jumping ...

Years ago, people went door to door recruiting kids to take accordion lessons and schools cropped up all over L.A. Through the years, though, almost all of them have closed down. But Dave’s Accordion ...

LOS ANGELES ― Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: “DAVE’S ACCORDION SCHOOL.” ...

Five-year-old Lily and 3-year-old Aubrii Sanchez of Eureka got to find out how the accordion works on April 29 on Eureka’s Boardwalk, where Guy Smith plays Old World dance songs on his 120 bass piano ...

Chip learns about the different types of accordions and even gets a lesson as he previews The Milwaukee Accordion Club. According to their website, their mission is to stimulate a positive attitude ...

Forty years ago, Darel Conrad shook the floor of the dance hall on First South playing his accordion with a five-piece orchestra. Now there is a post office where that dance hall used to be, and it''s ...

When Sidney Sward plays the accordion, he goes into a musical zone. The Pembroke Meadows resident said it’s similar to when an athlete plays a sport and enters “the zone.” “It’s a natural high,” said ...

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Los Angeles had a well-established accordion ecosystem. Door-to-door salesmen recruited students for lessons, dozens of schools sustained them and an annual ...