MONTEREY — The sound of fun-filled accordion music bouncing along downtown Monterey grew a little quieter Sunday when Mike Marotta Sr., the self-proclaimed “Mayor of Alvarado Street” died ...

Making his debut at the Monterey Jazz Festival, accordionist Buckwheat Zydeco says more and more people are interested in the sound of the accordion as a lead instrument. "Not just the older ...

The family business office had a display of about 25 accordions, including those he and his son played through the years, and others that belonged to longtime residents of Monterey who had loaned ...

In the accordion's halcyon days in the United States, which lasted most of the first half of the 20th century, a schoolboy couldn't walk through North Beach without hearing the sweet and sometimes ...

Don't laugh: The squeeze box is back. The accordion was once manufactured en masse in more than a half-dozen factories in Oakland and San Francisco, but after World War II, all the factories ...