Best Squeeze

Texas Folklife's Big Squeeze Accordion Contest Finals

Lone Star living teaches us that accordions rock as hard as guitars. Texas Folklife’s ninth annual Big Squeeze Accordion Contest Finals at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in June summoned the next generation of native firestarters. Finalists plucked from around the state by Austin’s nonprofit roots preservationists, button pushers 21 and younger pumped their wheezy squeezes for top honors in polka, zydeco, and conjunto categories. The sea of family, friends, and headlining genre queen Eva Ybarra did the rest, raising such a joyful community clatter that local history was made.

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1708 Houston St., 512/441-9255
www.texasfolklife.org