Toe-tapping music and happy melodies keep members of the Central Wisconsin Concertina Club on the move. Local band leader Dan Gruetzmacher started the Concertina Club in 1971, and the group has grown ...

Is everybody happy.” Larry Olsen yelled out that more than once when he played his concertina with his brother Leon, who was also working his magic on the musical instrument well known in polka ...

Did you know that the English concertina, that hand-pumped bellows instrument favored by sailors both legitimate and piratical in the Age of Sail, was invented by none other than [Sir Charles ...

Perhaps the best concertina player New Ulm ever had – Elmer Scheid – died at age 90 on Friday, May 4, in St. Paul. Scheid, whose polka band performed for 50 years, learned to play the concertina as a ...

Damián Guttlein is the only person in the world who can tune by ear the bandoneon, a unique instrument that powers the perfectly imperfect sound of tango music. A bandoneon, a type of concertina, is ...

Wild abandon and emotional depth charges. These are what characterise Cormac Begley’s second solo album, B. He takes a wry pleasure in describing it as the world’s first solo bass concertina album: ...

As musical instruments go, the Thummer doesn't exactly scream simplicity. Two blocks, one side of each covered in a pattern of concertina-esque buttons, are connected nunchaku-style by a single cord.

West Kerry has yielded more than its share of fine musicians and influenced many others far beyond its bounds. Its riotous polkas and slides have so often been sent skywards by box players who spent ...