Joe Szabo first started to learn the accordion when he was six years old. He would never have guessed that when he was 60 he would be playing his accordion for others fulltime. When Szabo was laid off ...

This 9-year-old club's nearly 400 members are working hard to maintain Milwaukee's historic accordion music heritage. Think of Milwaukee music and what comes to mind? Perhaps the Violent Femmes or ...

Everybody has a story, but sometimes you need the right media to hear it properly. Thanks to friendly offers from a couple of strangers — an Oregon record shop owner and a loyal Columbian subscriber — ...

Legend has it that when the Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492, they brought their house keys in the hope they would someday return. They also held onto their culture. And perhaps no one alive is ...

Jim Gilman is ready to rage. Playing to a crowd chomping on schnitzel and gulping down lagers in the dining room of Old World during the weekend of Karneval (the German equivalent of Mardi Gras) on a ...

Camaraderie and a shared love of the sometimes misunderstood instrument are what bond members of the Chicago Accordion Club. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Members of the Chicago Accordion ...