SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...

The Slovenian Society Home in Euclid will become the “Woodstock of Polka Music” when the 38th annual Super Button Box Bash takes place April 24. Sixty accordions will take the stage throughout the day ...

Blue suede lederhosen: Spetich and Stash Franjic (left) rip through some mean Alsatian riffs. Credit: courtesy of Betty Spetich Frankie Spetich could have chosen the Americanized piano accordion as ...

The World of Music, Vol. 50, No. 3, Accordion Culture (2008), pp. 15-36 (22 pages) Irish traditional dance music players have used diatonic button accordions to play traditional dance music since the ...

Cleveland keeps proving its bona fides as a polka town over and over, largely thanks to the unflagged efforts of the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame in Euclid, which sponsors numerous ...

The 39th annual Super Button Box Bash is now set for April 16, as attendees will be able to dance to the sounds of 60 accordions on two stages, plus jam sessions all day at the American Croatian Lodge ...

SHARON – The National Button Accordion Festival in Sharon during Memorial Day weekend was a musical extravaganza that attracted top-notch musicians. Polkas, waltzes, German and Slavic music and even a ...

For eight weeks last summer, folklorist Paul Tyler was a one-man audience. In living rooms, kitchens and churches throughout Waukegan and Zion, he listened to folk musicians perform. He heard a ...

Hundreds of musicians hoisted their accordions in the St. John's air Saturday to celebrate the setting of an unusual record: the greatest number of people to play accordions simultaneously. Accordion ...