This video features the late polka king, Li’l Wally, playing Chemnitzer concertina on the Lawrence Welk show. I may have posted this one once before. I really love this clip. That man was a walking party.
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The Pattern
Since there was some discussion on my previous post about the chromatic button accordion vs the piano accordion, here is a diagram I grabbed from wikipedia that shows the basic C-system pattern, which repeats up and down the button board. On many chromatics, the buttons… Read More
What’s old is new…
Some time back I decided to attempt to learn to play the chromatic button accordion. Like the piano accordion, it has all the notes in the chromatic scale available, but it has buttons instead of a keyboard. In North America, not so many people play… Read More
How to teach folk music?
I’ve mentioned on this blog my intention of taking on a student or two for triple-row button accordion lessons. To prepare for this, I’ve been putting together some materials and thinking about the best way to go about the problem of teaching what is essentially… Read More
Fontenot & Ardoin
I stumbled into this remarkable clip of Creole players Canray Fontenot on fiddle and Bois Sec Ardoin on accordion. Nice edgy blues feel about these tunes. I love the foot-stomping too. This performance is from 1966.
Hard Times
This song was written by Stephen Foster in 1854. It was first recorded in 1905. It never gets old. I love songs that can endure style, fad and fashion, that remain as powerful today as the day someone made them up, or pulled them from… Read More
The Party Ain’t Over
Wanda Jackson has a new album. And why not, this rock ‘n roller is only 73. The Party Ain’t Over is produced by Jack White and is released tomorrow. I’ll be picking up a copy. Here’s Ms. Jackson back in the day. And here’s a… Read More
Huapango
The AMPOL AIRES
thanks Candy Swir Swir Mazurek, I like that one a lot….now here’s an Oberek, the Kick the Bucket Oberek…
Lessons
I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to take on one or two button accordion students. In my trusty notebook, I’ve been putting together some notes on how to go about it. The triple row button accordion (called a concertina in Portuguese circles) is in… Read More
27th Street 