The early teen years are a time when many kids are taking their first band class or tooling around on a drum set they got for Christmas. Maybe they’re learning the school’s fight song on the trumpet ...

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 ...

When polka music made its mainstream debut in the Midwest in the mid-20th century, it was a hit among young crowds. Today, those crowds and accordion players at polka events (like those hosted ...