Earlier this year, the Chronicle's Andrew Dansby wrote of legendary polka band Brave Combo: There exists no greater invitation to dance than the music of Brave Combo. The Texas mainstay has been ...

The 15th annual Big Squeeze Accordion Contest, presented annually by Texas Folklife, will be virtual concerts in traditional Texas accordion music genres, including conjunto, polka, Cajun, zydeco, and ...

SAN BENITO, Texas — The southern subtropics of Texas, known as the Rio Grande Valley, is a geographically and culturally distinct part of the Lone Star State — as much Mexican as Texan — with its own ...

A great tragedy has been perpetrated on the world of music. The noble polka, an art form passed down through generations of beer-bloated Germanic tribesman, has been eliminated as a category in the ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --Texas conjunto music pioneer Flaco Jimenez, 86, died while surrounded by his family at one of his son's homes on Thursday night, his family announced. Flaco was born in San Antonio in ...

Talk about taking the wind out of the accordion. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences announced last week it was eliminating the category of best polka album from the annual Grammy ...

Aaron Salinas, the 2014 Grand Prize Winner the conjunto category in the ¡Encore Pachanga! Accordion Music Festival presented by the Museum of Street Culture. (Photo by Marcy Garriott, courtesy of ...

Valerio Longoria’s accordion smells like sweet leather and is as weathered as an old saddle. On a table, she sits still, silent, inanimate, yet you can sense his soul stirring inside her bellows. Such ...

Born into a family of conjunto pioneers, Flaco Jimenez took his Hoehner three-row button accordion from San Antonio to the stages of the world, becoming the music's greatest ambassador. Jimenez died ...

LOS ANGELES -- It's enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside and shed a few tears in his beer. The waltz is over for America's Polka King, Jimmy Sturr, not to mention ...