Walk into a pub session in Galway on a Thursday night and the crowd around the players looks different than it did ten years ago. There are still grey heads and seasoned hands, but now there are ...

4 Review: The Stratford Festival's OTHELLO is Stirring and Powerful Only Canadian Stop for Sharon Shannon - Award-winning, Genre-Defying Irish Accordion Sensation on North American Tour - At The ...

Back when he was mayor of Baltimore, Maryland's current governor, Martin O'Malley, fired Billy McComiskey, the 1986 All-Ireland senior champion of the button accordion (as opposed to the piano-key ...

Matt Hensley of Celtic punk band Flogging Molly never got picked on for playing the accordion as a kid because he didn’t start until the age of 24. He did almost get shot for it as an adult, though.

For the second consecutive year, IAF organizers Juan Tejeda, Pat Jasper, and Eduardo Díaz have put together an amazing array of accordion music from around the world. Last year’s inaugural event ...