QUINCY, Mass. — Christina Busso, a lawyer in the nation’s capital, does not make a habit of advertising her lifelong hobby. On the rare occasions when she does confess that she has played the ...

ARLINGTON, VA — . -- When he was 5, John Moceo announced that he wanted to play the accordion. Chalking it up to childhood whimsy, his mother pushed him to play something else, anything else -- guitar ...

IN ALL of the columns I've written on local music, I've never shone my Nightwatchman's lantern on an accordion player. So let me present Manny Bobenrieth, an accordion player of the highest order who ...

When the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fetes Krist Novoselic later this year, it'll be well-timed recognition. Not for his band—Nirvana certainly doesn't need the publicity—but for his instrument. He may ...

Dick Contino is one of the few men in musical history who have ever squeezed big money out of an accordion. When he steps out into a spotlight and flashes a smile almost as wide and white as the ...

WISHEK, N.D. -- A few miles off the Lawrence Welk Highway is a community where the sound of "O Du Lieber Augustin" is as common as anything by Britney Spears, Jay-Z or Garth Brooks. Wishek calls ...

The accordion is a peculiar instrument. It is cumbersome. It has a lowbrow reputation. It can be used as winter quarters by mice. It has a lamentable tendency to lure performers into horrific displays ...

I remember with great clarity, as I tapped my foot to the infectious melody that Johnnie Zibert was squeezing out of his accordion last May at a polka festival in Franklin, turning to my husband and ...