If the instrument(s) you play are portable, prepare 16 bars that demonstrate your skill level on that instrument, and 16 bars of a traditional musical theatre song. Bring sheet music in your key; an ...

Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her wonderful instrument and its colourful history. Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into ...

Influences: ”They`re as diverse as the instruments we play,” Brodie says. ”Mike Kroll, Temple and I all like the Beatles, but Mike Dix and Eric hate them. Fred and I are classically trained, and the ...

It will be 30 years this summer since Paul Simon released his “Graceland” album, on which the pop and folk of America and Africa were blended into an imaginative hybrid. At the time, it seemed like a ...

Library visitors are stereotypically quiet, but a new kind of collection at the A.C. Hunter Library in St. John's might change that. The library today unveiled a collection of 150 musical instruments ...

Humorist Brian Unger visits the studio of a Los Angeles accordion teacher, and learns that this oft-maligned instrument has been the key to some surprising romantic success for the few who master it.

The Accordion Club of Natrona Heights might need to change its name. These guys and gals aren’t just sitting around playing old-timey polkas — they can really jam. “We like to get together and kind of ...

NORTH CANAAN — Paul Ramunni spent most of his life not thinking much about accordions. When he was 10 years old and living on Long Island, Ramunni’s parents wanted him to learn the instrument. “I said ...

“Santa Stop Here,” says the sign outside Laytown Garda station, and he did on Saturday for “Accordion Man”, aka Ken Hopkins (64), when gardaí returned 12 vintage accordions stolen from him in August.