This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The music of Will Holshouser defies easy categorization. Streaming services have variously filed his albums as jazz, folk, even easy listening. There's more than a ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It's easy to describe what 644 accordions playing at the same time sounds like. "It's loud," ...

Hundreds of musicians hoisted their accordions in the air in St. John's, Nfld., Saturday to celebrate the setting of an unusual record â the greatest number of people to play accordions simultaneously ...

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host the appearance of all-time driving legend Mario Andretti, along with 3-time World Accordion Champion Cory Pesaturo on Monday, May 30 during Indianapolis 500 ...

Accordion musician and enthusiast Doris Osgood moved with her husband to Forest Grove many years ago. For a time she thought she was the only accordion player in the area. "Some of us still had young ...

Everybody has a story, but sometimes you need the right media to hear it properly. Thanks to friendly offers from a couple of strangers — an Oregon record shop owner and a loyal Columbian subscriber — ...

A grand accordion performance is staged in Tacheng prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, to challenge the Guinness World Record, August 20, 2016. [Photo/cnr.cn] A total of 1,517 accordion ...

MARTIN JOHNSON: Accordionist Will Holshouser has played in a wide variety of bands - from violinist Regina Carter's jazz hybrid group Reverse Thread to singer/songwriters like Suzanne Vega and Rufus ...

Holshouser turned to accordion when a college pal gave him one as a gift. Martin Johnson reviews his latest album, then Terry Gross hosts Holshouser in the studio for conversation and some music. This ...

JOHNSON: There aren't many rules for what you can and cannot do on a solo accordion recording, but it seems essential to address the Cajun tradition, and Holshouser covers the New Orleans waltz "Chez ...