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 ...

The term "accordion" finds its roots in the German word akkord (chord), as highlighted by Google Doodle. (Pic: Google) Google Doodle on Thursday (May 23) celebrated the ‘accordion’, a German musical ...

Among free-reed instruments with bellows, the accordion was developed in the early 1800s alongside others like the concertina, bandoneon, and harmonium. Google Doodle celebrated the ‘accordion’ on ...

The accordion has 233 buttons, 41 keys and 8,888 chords. George Rozwick won't claim he knows all the chords off the top of his head. Pretty much everything else, though? He's got it. Of course, he's ...

When: Sept. 17, 3 p.m. until dark. What: Annual celebration of German culture and fundraiser for the Lions Club. Food, locally brewed beer, music and the occasional guest clad in lederhosen. Where: ...

It's a well-known story — the one where European conquerors ravaged the New World with disease in the 15th century. That story repeated itself, in a very different way, in the early part of the 20th ...