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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniel Radcliffe isn't going to let those accordion lessons go to waste. The Harry Potter actor learned to play the uniquely difficult instrument so he could portray Weird Al Yankovic in the wildly ...

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 ...

Lately, I’ve been playing word association games with my friends and longtime Petalumans, regarding Petaluma of the 1950s and 1960s. I wanted to know what came to mind when I mentioned various topics.

Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: "DAVE'S ACCORDION SCHOOL." Inside, black and tan cases ...