Clarence "Junior" Martin, a renowned accordion maker, musician and member of the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame whose instruments helped shape the sound of Cajun and zydeco music for decades, has died.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A beloved icon of the Acadiana music community has died. Clarence “Junior” Martin, 85, died peacefully at his home in Scott on Sunday. Martin built a successful career in ...

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This versatile music maker is used across various genres, from tango to heavy metal.

This value coincides with the activation energy of self-diffusion along GBs in Ni (122 kJ/mol) (16), but it is well below that for Mo atoms (221 kJ/mol) (17). The crystallization kinetics were ...

In Gaeltacht Mhúscraí, where the loss of a beloved singer was still raw, a group took action to ensure the rich tradition in the area would be passed on to a new generation Liam Mac Suibhne, a pupil ...

Camaraderie and a shared love of the sometimes misunderstood instrument are what bond members of the Chicago Accordion Club. And they wouldn’t have it any other way. “Members of the Chicago Accordion ...

The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more ...

Flaco Jiménez, the legendary accordion player who was perhaps the foremost ambassador for regional Tejano music in the 20th century, died at 86 on July 31st. According to a statement, Jiménez died ...

Going for a song — one of the world’s biggest private collections of accordions is set to go under the hammer in Belfast. They belonged to Comber man Ken Hopkins, affectionately nicknamed ‘Accordion ...

We revisit a conversation we first aired in April 2023 which was the first installment of our series on people’s professions. We’ll learn what it takes to do different kinds of jobs and how these ...