Tapping his foot to the beat, his fingers fluttering up and down the short keyboard, Lou Zanardi launched into a song from “The Godfather” on his glossy black, white and gold–trimmed accordion.

While in high school, Dan Biemer inherited an accordion from a great aunt, and he admitted, “I scorned it for a long time. It wasn’t cool. I liked electronic keyboards.” Now Biemer plays his accordion ...

Lou Gamber plays his digital accordion at Narcisi Winery in Gibsonia on June 26, 2025. Some may know him as Lou, but to many around Pittsburgh, he’s known as the Accordion Man. Louis Gamber is 85 and ...

When you think of accordion, you think of European polka or folk music. Hanzhi Wang wants you to think of Bach and Piazzolla. On Sunday, Oct. 13, the China-born Wang brings her accordion to Leo Rich ...

Flicking through this box set will provoke a Proustian rush if you’re of a certain age. These recordings were mostly made for EMI, though Warner Classics have wisely kept the LPs’ original sleeve art, ...

To her early 20th-century audience, Tsilye Dropkin’s Yiddish poetry was as shocking for its content as its form. A Russian-born poet who immigrated to New York City at the age of 25, Dropkin broke ...

The accordion is the Rodney Dangerfield of instruments. It don’t get no respect. It’s dismissed as a fixture of polka bands, yet most people don’t realize how in the hands of a capable player, the ...

Accordion Fest organizers Karina Inkster and Walter Martella are back at it for the fifth year, expanding the stereotype of ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — A MultiCare Deaconess Hospital nurse is brightening spirits this holiday season by sharing a heartfelt family tradition in an unconventional way. Troy Elonen, an emergency room nurse ...