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 ...

The accordion’s journey from immigrant stages to mainstream America was shaped by Italian performers, makers, and teachers.

“My brother and I — he was a year younger — we both had accordion lessons right away, and we started on the little 12 bass and classes, and then we got to the bigger instruments,” she says. “It was ...

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 ...