Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: "DAVE'S ACCORDION SCHOOL." Inside, black and tan cases ...
As one of a handful of newcomers to the accordion, Alfonso Hall put the instrument on his lap Thursday and began tapping the buttons during his first lesson from the Conjunto Heritage Taller. Hall, 81 ...
Gino Bagala has been taking accordion lessons for 18 months, and so far, none of his West Santa Rosa neighbors has called the cops. With about 200 songs in his songbook, he has spent just about every ...
LOS ANGELES ― Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: “DAVE’S ACCORDION SCHOOL.” ...
Back in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, Los Angeles had a well-established accordion ecosystem. Door-to-door salesmen recruited students for lessons, dozens of schools sustained them and an annual ...