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 ...

Judy Santsche was 12 years old and wanted to play the piano, which was, she said, beyond the family budget. When group accordion lessons on a rented instrument became available, she remembers jumping ...

Chip learns about the different types of accordions and even gets a lesson as he previews The Milwaukee Accordion Club. According to their website, their mission is to stimulate a positive attitude ...

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Los Angeles had a well-established accordion ecosystem. Door-to-door salesmen recruited students for lessons, dozens of schools sustained them and an annual ...

Save your jokes about the "stomach Steinway." Pete Sacchi is not amused. After 54 years of teaching accordion lessons, he still bristles a bit when the instrument is maligned. "More people than not ...

Years ago, people went door to door recruiting kids to take accordion lessons and schools cropped up all over L.A. Through the years, though, almost all of them have closed down. But Dave’s Accordion ...