Los Angeles Times

Decades of Devotion Squeezed Into Three Days

QUINCY, Mass. — Christina Busso, a lawyer in the nation’s capital, does not make a habit of advertising her lifelong hobby. On the rare occasions when she does confess that she has played the ...
Los Angeles Times

Pumping up the old squeezebox

ARLINGTON, VA — . -- When he was 5, John Moceo announced that he wanted to play the accordion. Chalking it up to childhood whimsy, his mother pushed him to play something else, anything else -- guitar ...
Joplin Globe

Andra Bryan Stefanoni: Area mourns loss of accordion master

I remember with great clarity, as I tapped my foot to the infectious melody that Johnnie Zibert was squeezing out of his accordion last May at a polka festival in Franklin, turning to my husband and ...
Times Colonist

World's best accordion players are in Victoria to compete and entertain

Jelena Milojevic is a teacher and concert musician who has performed at New York's Carnegie Hall. She will be performing at the Coupe Mondiale competition in Victoria.DARREN STONE The Olympics of the ...
Berkshire Eagle

Accordion master tuned in to wedding

STOCKBRIDGE -- When Dr. William Schimmel, who has been described by some as the greatest accordion player in the world, received an email asking him to play a wedding gig, he didn’t bat an eye. He ...