Accordion renews its image as 2026's top instrument

The accordion is gaining worldwide popularity. Germany has declared it the instrument of the year for 2026. This all-rounder ...
Oregonian

Tillamook Swiss will celebrate 100 years with music, beer and a Schwingen tournament

The Tillamook Swiss Society is turning 100, and the community is celebrating with a daylong Swiss Centennial. Activities at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds on Nov. 5 will include a cornhole ...
Channel 3000

Swiss National Day celebrated at Volksfest with traditional music, food

To mark the arrival of Swiss settlers in New Glarus in 1845, the people of New Glarus celebrate Swiss Independence Day through an annual festival. That festival is called Volksfest and took place ...
Long Island Press

Swiss Culture Comes To Manorhaven School

Students of all grade levels at Manorhaven Elementary School in Port Washington kept a 26-year-old tradition alive with a variety of hands-on activities during Cultural Studies Week. The country of ...
WKOW

Swissfest in Monroe celebrated 57 years of Swiss music and culture

MONROE, Wis. — The Monroe Swiss Singers celebrated their 57th Annual Swissfest on Sunday afternoon at the Turner Hall of Monroe, bringing the sounds and traditions of Switzerland to life through a ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Accordions – cool again and increasingly high-tech – the focus of Museum of Making Music exhibit

Why is a heavy-metal-loving tuba player with a doctorate in musicology curating an interactive accordion exhibit — “Expanding Voices in the USA: The Resurgence of the Accordion” — at the Museum of ...