Efforts to Celebrate World Accordion Day

If World Accordion Day is May 6th, why is it being celebrated in: Austria on May 2nd, 7th and 6th, Canada May 16th, Finland May 8th, 5th and 6th. Lithuania on the 3rd, 5th and 6th, Ireland on the 8th, US 2nd, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 23rd?!?!?!

Bach, Barns and Eruptions

Vietty performs solo. Galliano has youtube Bach video. Douglas trapped in Amsterdam. Cirque doing MJ.

Digital Mausoleum for Deceased Accordionists

Accordions Worldwide (accordions.com) offers Accordion Memorials, an online place to post memorials for the greats of accordion around the world. As they say:

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!

Accordionist Deaths: Stéphane Delicq

Master of diatonic button accordion. Called the Piazzolla of the instrument. His waltzes he is known for.

Many in the accordion community and fans are broken hearted. Please listen to his work.

Bayan Video: Outside an Accordion – Inside a Space Station

English language Russian TV News item on an accordion factory. They make the russian bayan. Friedrich Lips also has a small cameo.

Carnegie Hall Names Mehldau First Jazz Artist for Composer's Chair

Great news if you are a fan of jazz pianist Brad Mehldau. Mehldau has been given a season-long residency at Carnegie Hall this season, 2010-2011. What this means? Alot of fantastic new Brad Mehldau music; there will be music with strings, music with words, music for two pianos! Exciting. (Thanks to Nonesuch Records site forRead more..

Classical Accordion: Great Article by Guardian UK

The article Accordion Reborn published Wednesday November 19, 2009, got my attention. From the Guardian, a thorough and highly accessible article on the state of contemporary ‘Classical’ Accordion music. Specifically Denmark, which since at least the 1970′s has been a bastion of creativity andgenius in this genre.

Contrast: My Accordion Video with the Very First Accordion Film Ever

I remember reading a huge biography of Thomas Alva Edison. The motion picture camera was amongst the many things he was credited for inventing. Then in college I mentioned that fact which was rebutted by some film student who claimed it was a French guy. Who knows? I don’t really care. Here’s the First AccordionistRead more..

World Accordion Trio – Galliano, Coba, Marocco

Finally there is something written about this concert! I had been seeing people twitter about it, and I saw some things on Coba’s blog. But I was unable to get the drift of exactly what went on. And now Elke Ahrenholz has posted a write up on accordions.com. On Octover 23rd, 2009: