When I started learning button accordion there were limited online resources available to help me out. Instead I went out and found a teacher. It was an unusual situation. I found a fellow who played piano accordion and piano and guitar but wasn’t exactly a… Read More
This afternoon Tuffy and I and our friend Toni trundled down to the Bell TIFF Lightbox to see a movie called Computer Chess. It’s a film set in the early 80s about a weekend tournament in which computers play one another at chess. It is… Read More
Our friend Toni is in town (from England). She enjoys games so this morning I gave her a Go lesson. Go wasn’t the only game today though. Tonight Toni and Tuffy P and I also played Quirkle, a deceptively simple game that can be… Read More
Every now and again, I remember that I used to listen to a lot of rock ‘n’ roll and some of it was fantastically good. Let me just get it out of my system. There, I’m OK now. Pass the banjo over here…
I found myself thinking about Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee today, and it transported me way back to the time me and a buddy saw them play at the old El Mocambo. We were teen-aged blues freaks I suppose, and this was a big deal.… Read More
…it matters that you get out and vote. There is a provinical byelection coming up in my area. We live in a high profile riding, Etobicoke-Lakeshore, formerly held by Laurel Broten. We’ve been innundated by robo-polls and even robo-calls by one of the candidates. Two… Read More
It’s important to me to not stop learning. Music is one activity I started really flirting with after I turned 40 and I started playing the button accordion. How hard could it be, I reasoned. There are only 31 buttons on the right side of… Read More
When it come time to relax or have a sleep, sisters Gracie and Phyllis cuddle up together.
Our Newfoundlands Memphis and Ellie Mae love nothing more than a walk to the beach for a good swim, and today was perfect for it. Here’s a little video…
I love this poster for an upcoming Very Be Careful show in LA… I think this band would be a lot of fun to see live. They play Vallenato. It’s about time I featured some accordion music around this joint, don’t you think?
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