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.” ...

This week’s guest on Viva Tejano, Eva Ybarra, is a luminary in conjunto music, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who’s been playing the accordion for seven decades. For all her talent, though, she’s ...

An accordion is a wonderful musical instrument but it is quite different and a bit difficult to play this particular musical instrument in comparison to the other musical instruments. But it is very ...

Eva Ybarra is willpower personified, with the added benefit of pure talent. She is an underdog champion. She is a role model for females. She is tough and relentless and a free spirit. She is the ...

RJ Marquez got a lesson in Conjunto music, and the instruments used in the cultural music. He even learned a little bit of the accordion.

Accolades: Inducted into the Conjunto Music Hall of Fame in San Antonio in 2003 and into the Texas Conjunto Music Hall of Fame and Museum in San Benito in 2009. Background: Ybarra is mostly ...

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 ...