Accordion is popular in folk music everywhere, and it squeezes soul into the beat of Irish jigs and Argentine tango. Its bellows-worked reeds are voice-like, high wailing, bass rumbling,–dances to tell a story. Folk and Traditional Powerhouse Irish/Celtic sessions are filled with…

The accordion is the beating heart of folk music—the bellows that puts the breath of melodies that cross continents and centuries into the music. Its free reeds invented in Vienna in 1829 make a harmony by straining air, with the solo voice…