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New Galliano Videos
I hadn’t looked around Youtube for Galliano in a few months, wow what I found! Galliano with Strings: World Accordion Trio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx3UF8Kw7Bo Galliano with Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Galliano with Gypsies:
Swinging Accordion: Joe Mooney
Of american swing/jazz accordionists I must say that I am most taken today by Joe Mooney. A native of Patterson, NJ, blind at age 10. I will let the FANTASTIC blog JazzWax handle the biographical details of Joe Mooney. To me he is the top of American swing accordion. Joe Mooney plays right from theRead more..
Favorite Things Recap of 2010
I started this out thinking it was going to be a top 10 posts list. But the more I look back, most of them are about me, and thats cool it is called dallasvietty.com. But as I look back I see alot of things I did or experiences I had as a performer or listenerRead more..
Accordion News Before the New Year
I’ll be playing my New Year’s Eve gig at the historic Black Bass in Bucks County, PA. This year with “The Sound of the Delaware River”, The New Impressionists. And I’ll be playing New Year’s Day for a free show with The Hot Club of Philly down at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Swedish-American accordion technicianRead more..
Performance Piece: Makes Perfect, Makes Permanent
-WORK HARD THEN REST- Photos by Shekinah Rae One of my hobbies of late has been the science of practicing. Really, the studies by those who choose to understand practice and how it is some who practice succeed beyond others. For a brief overview of my exploring which I think would be helpful to anyRead more..
Success and Failure at TEDx Philly
The speakers excited and a little nervous, engaging each other, introducing, lubricating their vast engines of ideas. I had several conversations with these wonderful presenters, their side telling me of the truly fascinating work, and upon my telling of my immediate accordion malfunction, they reply, “well what are you going to do?”
Come Out To Accordion Day – 11/7/10
BE PART OF THIS PHOTO November 7th Festival Features Grand Opening for the Newest Club in Town Acme Button Box Club of Acme Accordion School Tex Mex, Zydeco, Cajun, Louisiana Styles of Squeezing Sunday – November7th will be an exciting day for Delaware Valley Accordionists, Acme Accordion School and residents of Haddon Township. Acme AccordionRead more..
Halloween 2010
Japanese NYC Horror Dinner, Thriller on Accordion, Deannas Party with New Impressionists and more….
Music News from Around the Web
“You can be quiet and assume (sic), or you can say fuck it and do what you want. I prefer the second way.” Yann Tiersen (composer of Amelie and more) interview here. Looking for new pop music? Try France. Here is a nice rundown of the French pop scene, apparently not known to the English, andRead more..