Jeremiah McLane was one of Vermont’s best-known accordionists and traditional musicians. Then Annemieke Spoelstra was one of the state’s finest concert pianists. “We were musically introduced by 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 ...

That’s what you were if you played accordion in the 1970s. Jim Gilman laughs. Because that’s when he launched his lifelong career playing the world’s most maligned instrument. “I WAS a nerd,” he booms ...

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 ...

KENNEWICK -- JoAnn Bjerke turned 87 years old Friday, but she doesn't feel much different than she did 50 years ago. Not much, anyway, she said with smirk. She credits a passion for music for keeping ...

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 ...