This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The music of Will Holshouser defies easy categorization. Streaming services have variously filed his albums as jazz, folk, even easy listening. There's more than a ...

The accordion playing of Flaco Jimenez, seen here performing during the 2014 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tenn., came to define contujo and ...

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.

Josphat Wanzala playing the accordion at his home in Lutonyi on the outskirts of Kakamega town. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard] The melodious sound of an accordion playing welcomes you to the home of ...

When I heard about the Seattle Accordion Social, a monthly meetup on Beacon Hill for accordionists and accordion appreciators, I called the event’s co-director, John Giuliani, 71, on his landline (he ...