Get Out and Hear Some Accordion!

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

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..

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.

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..

Musette Atache: Japan Takes Accordion Frenchly

Two great mordinary articles on the Japanese Infiltration of French Accordionist Daniel Colin.

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:

French Jazz Accordion – Translated from Taiwanese Writer

I came across this really great article written by Taiwanese radio DJ Dannyboy of Philharmonic Radio Taipei. The article is mostly a portrait of Galliano’s musical spirit, while also touching on the connection between the French and Jazz. So with Dannyboy’s permission, I have translated and re-posted the article below (you’ll love it):

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.