Not sure what a button box is? Don’t worry, we had some experts on the show to tell us just exactly what it is. A button box is a type of accordion with three or four rows of buttons on the right-hand ...

Johann Strauss Jr. wasn’t called The Waltz King for nothing. The Austrian composer wrote more than 500 waltzes, polkas and other dance pieces during his lifetime. You can get a sampling of Strauss and ...

Three residents with connections to the Metrocom are using the Internet to keep traditional German-style music alive, as they aim to pass on to listeners the music they love. For the past six years, ...

LOS ANGELES — It’s enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few tears in his beer. The waltz is over for ...

What’s the difference between an accordion player and a terrorist? Terrorists have sympathizers. Yes, that’s a joke, but you can forgive the polka community for not laughing right now. On June 4, the ...

If you never would have guessed that high school students could get excited about polka music, guess again. "I love polka band," said Jared Aspegren, 16, a Washburn Rural High School sophomore. "The ...

CLEVELAND -- Lou Trebar, a button-box accordionist, known for incorporating elements of Viennese waltzes and American jazz into traditional Slovenian polka music, died Thursday at the Slovene Home for ...

Approaching the entrance of the Chandelier Ballroom in the Heights, I began to hear the faint echoes of accordions and trumpets and a pang of dread surged in my spine. I was entering the world of ...