“A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.” Whether or not you agree with Tom Waits on this point, the box-shaped musical instrument invented in Vienna has become such an ...

Today’s dose of reader response, in which accordion players, proud Frenchman Phillipe Ruminy and others refuse to give two figs for my thoughts. You shopped for salami and water, but you have no duct ...

André Verchuren, the French "King of the Accordion", who died this week aged 92. Photo: Frederico Rivera/Youtube A musical prodigy, old-school French romantic, and Holocaust survivor - our French Face ...

Those masters of pithy international ridicule–French diplomats and accordion players–are training their sarcastic tongues on U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert. I know this because we’ve talked with a ...

Laurent Koscielny, a footballer with a heart and a love of Made in France accordians, it seems. Photo: AFP/Photoverulam/flickr French international footballer Laurent Koscielny, who plays with Premier ...

French Accordion should be ready to strike a winning note at Limerick this afternoon. Paul Nolan's smart eight-year-old runs in the Coffey Construction Handicap Hurdle and will be spot on after a good ...