Here in Canada, this is Thanksgiving weekend. What better time to sit back and listen to some accordion music? Here’s a definition of Hambo from Wikipedia: The hambo is a traditional dance that originated in Sweden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It… Read More
I enjoy listening to Portuguese folk music. Maybe it’s because I lived in a mostly Portugese area of Toronto for quite a while and have a fondness for Portugese culture. Here’s a player named Raul Godinho who really knows his way around the chromatic button… Read More
Here’s Glen Qvarnström
So there I was, surfing around YouTube, listening to Finnish accordion music, when I came across a video featuring a most interesting instrument, apparently called a nyckelharpa. Check it out: I consulted Wikipedia. The internets know everything, right? A nyckelharpa (literally “key harp”, plural nyckelharpor… Read More
Here is a player named Graham Irvine performing Argyll pipe tunes on button accordion. It looks to me like the box he’s playing is a three-row chromatic button accordion. I don’t listen to a lot of Scottish music but I’m not sure why, as I… Read More
Here it is the first day of fall as we wait to see who loses the space junk lottery. Listening to the radio this morning, we were advised not to worry, the space junk was going to fall into the ocean somewhere off the coast… Read More
I’ll take that to be a silent request for me to post more accordion music. Here’s a lovely little Mazurka I found over on YouTube, called Perles de Brume.
I had the great pleasure of performing for two groups of kids at an early learning centre this morning. The kids, kindergarten age and younger, love the music and have a chance to play along. I bring a variety of percussion instruments along, from my… Read More
Soldier’s Joy is an old tune that has been performed in every way imaginable and recorded countless times. It’s one I enjoy playing on my triple row button accordion. Here’s some interesting versions I found on YouTube. This version makes me want to have a… Read More
I came across this great piece on YouTube, uploaded by HaileISela and featuring bagpipe, accordion and bass. Very nice work!
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