Sixteen-year-old Matt Frank just wanted to be heard at the Slovenian Society Home in Euclid. The Concord Township teen’s fingers whisked across the keys on his diatonic button box accordion. “I just ...

As one of a handful of newcomers to the accordion, Alfonso Hall put the instrument on his lap Thursday and began tapping the buttons during his first lesson from the Conjunto Heritage Taller. Hall, 81 ...

The village of Terchová in north-west Slovakia is renowned for its collective vocal and instrumental music, performed by three-, four- or five-member string ensembles with a small two-string bass or ...

Jim Gilman is ready to rage. Playing to a crowd chomping on schnitzel and gulping down lagers in the dining room of Old World during the weekend of Karneval (the German equivalent of Mardi Gras) on a ...

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 ...