NEW ULM — A longtime hotbed for concertina and polka music, New Ulm held its first World Concertina Congress Saturday. The annual congress and hall of fame induction devoted to the traditional German ...

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 ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - For a now-90-year-old Dan Gruetzmacher, music is everything. “It’s all I enjoyed was music,” Gruetzmacher said. “And I never let anything interfere with it.” His specialty is the ...

Not many 14-year-olds have business cards. Colton Tupy does. Colton, a concertina player from New Prague, hands them out when he performs around the Twin Cities area. For more than a year, the ...