Chen Zhaojie plays accordion for old neighbors. Photo: Yang Hui/GT The accordion is not an instrument one hears often anymore in Western music, but here in China, where traditional musical instruments ...

New accordions in the Liberty Bellows showroom are stacked and arranged like jeweled beetles at a natural-history museum, some with shells as green as a lime’s rind and others with keys like red ...

Monday was World Accordion Day, but the instruments are always celebrated at A World of Accordions, the museum in Superior. Nearly 20 years ago, in 2005, Florian Chmielewski and his family played a ...

When the Spokane Accordion Ensemble performs Friday night as guest artists at the Old Time Accordion Championships in Kimberly, B.C., it will be a happy and nostalgic event for Patricia Bartell, the ...

Q: My grandmother gave me her grandmother’s cedar chest. My great-grandmother was Pennsylvania Dutch and ended up moving to Iowa. She was married to a Civil War captain and died at a home for Civil ...

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 — ...

YAKIMA – On the day the music nearly died, this living legend, Yakima Valley’s own maestro of the “macaroni box,” Al Maletta Sr., woke up earlier than normal. The 90-year-old accordion instructor ...

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 ...

MANTECA (CBS13) — A Manteca man's music hit a sour note after a thief stole his century-old accordion. It's an instrument he's had since he was a teenager. Now, with the community's help, he's hoping ...

After 13 years, Russ Davis decided his Vecchio Bar & Grille had run its course and decided to go in a new direction. His bar's new incarnation, the "Red Accordion," touches on Old World 3rd Street's ...