Posts Tagged ‘musette’
Bryant Park – Solo Accordion
I had my week playing solo accordion in Bryant Park last week from Aug. 1st through the 5th. I met alot of accordion fans and saw some friends. I played from 12:30-2:30 every day. It was a wonderful experience and it got plugged on WNYC. You can hear the radio spot here: WNYC Musette RadioRead more..
A Very Rich Night for Piano du Pauvre – Bastille 2010
Piano du Pauvre is a French nickname for the accordion, its a poor person’s piano. (I guess they didn’t have Craigslist back then.)
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..
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..
Musette Atache: Japan Takes Accordion Frenchly
Two great mordinary articles on the Japanese Infiltration of French Accordionist Daniel Colin.
French and American Saxophone Quartets
Saxophone quartets can blend like a choral group, swing like a gypsy band, and possess a range of tone from angelic breath to screeching slaughterhouse animal. They have a weight-challenging property, like the gravity on the moon or a balloon filled with a mix of helium and air.
Richard Galliano Interview
“The accordion is a traveling instrument, and that is why it is found all over the world.” opens the interview. An organ, Galliano calls it, and then plays an excerpt of a Bach toccatta.