Toni Jarvis will spend today doing what she has done the last Saturday of every summer month for 70 years: playing the accordion for the fun-loving crowd at the German Park picnics. "It's not a ...

Fröhliche Musiker Blasorchester is the name of mid-Michigan’s own German Polka Band. The band’s name translates to “happy musicians in a wind band” and features 14 members, including co-founders Sara ...

Compared to electric guitars or drums, the oft-maligned accordion isn't a particularly sexy instrument ... unless you happen to play polkas. And for more than a half-century, Rockford's Virgil Baker ...

Alex Meixner is a Grammy-nominated musician and advocate...for polka music. Though he plays multiple instruments, including trumpet and drums, he's best known as an accomplished accordion player. He ...

Kevin Solecki, a Grammy-nominated accordionist who owns Carnegie Accordion, sells his own brand of the instrument and plays some of the most renowned brands. Solecki also offers private lessons.

Walt Groller’s parents gave him his first accordion when he was 4 years old. There was one problem, though. The boy played it so much that his mother became tired of hearing it and threw it down the ...