Lou Gamber plays his digital accordion at Narcisi Winery in Gibsonia on June 26, 2025. Some may know him as Lou, but to many around Pittsburgh, he’s known as the Accordion Man. Louis Gamber is 85 and ...

As a child, Noé Álvarez “wandered the orchards under the spell of corridistas — musicians whose spitfire fingers flew over their three-row accordion keys,” he writes in his memoir, “Accordion Eulogies ...

He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music. By Richard Sandomir Guy Klucevsek, a masterly accordion player ...

By the time he was about 20, he had been teaching accordion at a now-defunct Tonawanda music store called Slater's and decided to join the Navy, then enroll in the Navy music school. He was in ...