Toe-tapping music and happy melodies keep members of the Central Wisconsin Concertina Club on the move. Local band leader Dan Gruetzmacher started the Concertina Club in 1971, and the group has grown ...

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 ...

NEW ULM, Minn. – Chad and Angie Mack knew their son was in deep, when just before Christmas last year, he made his gift request. Third-graders don’t generally ask for lederhosen. “Every 8-year-old’s ...

SUNDERLAND—The concertinas on the shelves in the show room at The Button Box in Sunderland are more than musical instruments, they are works of art. Though they can be made in a variety of ...

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 ...