Her action embodied a principled stance not only against the authoritarian slide, but also in the context of the deeper struggle between the politics of hate and the politics of care. Rev. Budde’s ...

This concept isn’t new—in fact, it is the essence of representational state transfer (REST). Instead of converting to a ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

Flaco Jiménez, the legendary accordion player who was perhaps the foremost ambassador for regional Tejano music in the 20th century, died at 86 on July 31st. According to a statement, Jiménez died ...

The late Ken Hopkins amassed a huge private collection of his beloved instruments Known to many throughout Europe as "the accordion man" – Ken Hopkins from County Down dedicated decades of his life to ...

A North Eugene High School student crosses the stage with a beaming smile at the Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration. The accordion strapped across her torso is nearly half her size, but ...

He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music. By Richard Sandomir Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion player ...

Before there were robots, self-driving cars and AI, there were automated mechanical music machines: self-playing pianos, organs, even banjos and violins. And sitting in a piano storage warehouse in ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

An ancient Chinese quote from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) beautifully states, "Strings are not as good as bamboo flutes, and bamboo flutes are not as good as the human voice (丝不如竹，竹不如肉)." This ...

The news that Maugein, the last accordion manufacturer in France, will cease doing business, raises the question of whether the “box of sobs,” as the French call it, is more Gallic or Jewish in its ...