A lookout was chosen to hold open the door. An invasion song was selected. "OK, when I say go, we go! No hesitation, or the maitre d' has time to throw us out," said ringleader Paul Rogers. Blasting ...

Accordion Hero controllers won’t ship until next year, but the squeezebox revival is already well under way. In fact, it’s been going for a while. Geoff Berner, nominal star and arguable founder of ...

On its own merit, the accordion is a curious combination of sound creation: the platypus, the Frankenstein monster of musical instruments. On its right side lie a couple octaves grafted from the piano ...

There were Canary Islanders with an accordion in Maverick Plaza. There were guys in kilts, with an accordion, at the Arneson River Theater. There were young punk/rock/etc. players, with accordions, ...

Since the Cotati Accordion Festival began in 1992, the yearly squeezebox celebration has demonstrated again and again that there is more to the accordion than just polka music. Drawing more than 5,000 ...

Carefree with cups of wine in hand, Fredi and Julie D’Alessio danced Sunday to the bouncy accordion harmonies of Bella Ciao in La Plaza Park in Cotati. “It’s a blast,” Fredi D’Alessio said. “The more ...

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 ...

The Squeezebox Slam in Somerville began with a noble dream. Susan Berstler, director of Somerville’s Nave Galleries and a creative force around these parts generally, “envisioned getting 1,000 ...

First came National Polka Month in January, then the zydeco and Cajun strains of Mardi Gras in February, then local shows by The Klezmatics, Those Darn Accordions and C.J. Chenier last month. And ...

Don't laugh: The squeeze box is back. The accordion was once manufactured en masse in more than a half-dozen factories in Oakland and San Francisco, but after World War II, all the factories closed ...

Before Miley Cyrus and her twerking, before hip-hop, grunge, disco and rock ‘n’ roll, there was accordion music. On Saturday, aficionados of the instrument associated with zydeco, polkas and a more ...