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Accordion, which is backed by Charlesbank Capital Partners and Motive Partners, has acquired FCM, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm for private-equity-backed companies. No financial terms were ...

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This versatile music maker is used across various genres, from tango to heavy metal.

SAN ANTONIO – A group of women who learned to play the accordion at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center brought their music and message to the Viva Mexico Women’s Festival on the South Side this Sunday ...

Jamey Bearb grew up with strict accordion rules. His dad, Cajun musician Ricky Bearb, demanded the accordion, handmade by pioneer builder Marc Savoy, sit a precise position in its storage box. Even ...

Camaraderie and a shared love of the sometimes misunderstood instrument are what bond members of the Chicago Accordion Club. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Members of the Chicago Accordion ...

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 ...

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 ...

Graphene is a 'miracle material': mechanically extremely strong and electrically highly conductive, ideal for related applications. Using a unique method physicists have now made graphene drastically ...

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 ...

During the first month at my new apartment in Brooklyn, my bedroom was doorless. In typical brownstone fashion, my apartment is a 1.5-bedroom, meaning there’s one big bedroom with a small room ...