Posts Tagged ‘concert’

Accordion Apocalypse, Dallas Performances Squeeze Blog

1. I’m playing today in Lambertville, NJ, Monday in Lumberville, PA and Wednesday in Germantown, PA. 2. Listen to this great San Francisco Public Radio Story about Skyler Fell and learning to repair accordions from her mentor at her shop Accordion Apocalypse. And apparently, the accordion is the official instrument of San Francisco. 3. IRead more..

Get Out and Hear Some Accordion!

Here are some more shows coming up in the next couple weeks (June and July 2010.)

2 Kinds of Beauty: John Gart, Amsterdam Girls Band

1. This past Thursday I was a guest performer at the Acme Accordion School’s awards ceremony/performance.

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?!?!?!

My accordion has a mic!

1. My accordion has a mic now. Put in lovingly by Acme Accordion School of Westmont, NJ. 2. I will be playing this Today, 24th and Tomorrow 25th, at John Murdoch’s studio. Solo accordion from 12-4. Should be good accoustics and good art. You need tickets, $10 per group of people. 5113 Anderson Road (rearRead more..

Accordionist Deaths: Art Van Damme – Father of Jazz Accordion

Famous for his masterful block chords and vibraphone arrangements, in addition to ridiculous dexterity. No relation to Jean-Claude Van Damme.
VAN DAMME, Art
Art passed away at age 89 on February 15, 2010, in Roseville, Calif. Born in Norway, Mich., Art had been a resident of Roseville for 12 years. Art was a pioneer in the use of the accordion as a jazz instrument, and as a prominent jazz accordionist,

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..

Edith Piaf

She has in her voice that truth and honesty, an unrelenting torrent of emotions. She lived with her Grandmother in a whore house. She sang on the street with her street-acrobat father. She stood 4’8″. L’Accordioniste tells the story of a prostitute who is in love with an accordionist, because of the way his musicRead 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: