SAN ANTONIO - Accordionists from Texas to China pushed and pulled on their melodic squeeze-boxes Sunday, but only one performer at the Sixth International Accordion Festival used pedal power to ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The music of Will Holshouser defies easy categorization. Streaming services have variously filed his albums as jazz, folk, even easy listening. There's more than a ...

Why is a heavy-metal-loving tuba player with a doctorate in musicology curating an interactive accordion exhibit — “Expanding Voices in the USA: The Resurgence of the Accordion” — at the Museum of ...

Steve "Esteban" Jordan was his own worse enemy and the squeezebox's best friend. The iconoclastic conjunto pioneer, called "the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion" after he introduced psychedelic phase ...

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 ...

There were Canary Islanders with an accordion in Maverick Plaza. There were guys in kilts, with an accordion, at the Arneson River Theater. There were young punk/rock/etc. players, with accordions, ...

It’s been a little more than three years since Stan Boreson died at the age of 91. If you’re of a certain age and grew up around here, you know that Everett-born Boreson was the self-proclaimed “King ...

Juan Vera's accordion has a habit of catching the light coming through the windows of the Conjunto Heritage Taller on South Presa Street. What: An annual gathering celebrating the accordion and its ...

That jaunty wheezing sound coming from Bryant Park this month? A free weekly Wednesday concert series called “Accordions Around the World,” devoted to the widely influential role of the squeezebox.

Holshouser turned to accordion when a college pal gave him one as a gift. Martin Johnson reviews his latest album, then Terry Gross hosts Holshouser in the studio for conversation and some music. This ...