COSTA MESA – Accordion lovers, unite! On Sunday, you’ll get your chance – at the 3rd annual Big Squeeze accordion festival in Costa Mesa. It features 72 musicians, 20 styles of music and 10 bands on ...

A ring of suspected con artists was charged Friday with preying on hundreds of Latino families by offering free accordion lessons to get credit information they used to bilk victims of $500,000, ...

For the first time, free accordion lessons will be taught at the annual Victoria Czech Heritage Festival. The festival will be Sept. 25 at the Victoria Community Center, 2905 E. North St. It is ...

COSTA MESA – Accordionists on five stages squeezed out tune after tune for their fans at the Market Place in Costa Mesa Sunday. The Big Squeeze accordion festival featured performers on five stages, a ...

How do you measure civilization? By its art? By its great bridges and buildings? By its ability to be more often at peace than at war? Well, maybe, but I`ll take something like Fred Anderson`s ...

Lately, I’ve been playing word association games with my friends and longtime Petalumans, regarding Petaluma of the 1950s and 1960s. I wanted to know what came to mind when I mentioned various topics.

Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Los Angeles had a well-established accordion ecosystem. Door-to-door salesmen recruited students for lessons, dozens of schools sustained them and an annual ...