Big Accordion Festival Hamburg 2/13/10: Galliano, Accordion Tribe, Kimmo Pohjonen

Giant accordion festival in Hamburg Germany. Starting next week. I think the accordionists have more fun in Europe, and I’m here stuck in the snow. Well this is definitely an event I would like to go to!

(Translated from the website:)

Where else than in the port city of Hamburg should be the “Schiffer Piano” and his music just devote a whole festival? Venue of the Reeperbahn is no accident, however: For the international accordion scene, cheeky and very lively – hardly a musical genre in which they had not successfully taken root. Thus, the neighborhood festival “accordion,” the performance show that approximately 200 years old invention that has conquered the whole of the folklore of Europe and large parts of South America: Of course the “classics” are the instrument family to experience – that of the Argentine tango bandoneon, the accordion alpine folk music, the musette, the French dance music of the Viennese Quetschn Heurigenklänge. But there is no lack of the “young savages,” which is unprecedented advance into sound ground – in short, as everything turn, has to give away what joy of playing the accordion and Tanzwut.

February 13th, 8pm – Carel Kraayenhof & Sexteto Canyengue, St. Pauli Theater
14th, 8pm – Klaus Paier & Asja Valcic, with the Jurek Lamorski Quartett, Imperial Theater
15th, 8pm – Kimmo Pohjonen Kluster, Grünspan
16th, 8pm – Teodoro Anzelotti, St. Pauli Kirche
17th, 8pm – Attwenger, Safari Cabaret
18th, 8pm – Richard Galliano Tangaria Quartet, St. Pauli Theater
19th, 8pm – Accordion Tribe, Imperial Theater
20th, 8pm – The Motion Trio; Akkordeon-Orchester Hamburg-Eimsbüttel (MD Hans-Georg Beyer), Fliegende Bauten

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