I was surfing around YouTube when the title of this piece caught my eye…turns out it’s beautifully played on a Bayan chromatic accordion. I’m not too knowledgeable about chromatic button accordions but I think that Bayans are what they call B system or B griff,… Read More
I’ve been reading about chemnitzer concertinas. I’ve never played one of these beautiful instruments. They’re important in the “Push” style of Polish-American polka music which features the concertina, accordion (often playing “bellows-shake”), a pair of trumpets, bass and drums. Here’s Scrubby and the Dynatones from… Read More
And finally, Johnny Lowebow…
Some songs just have a lot of legs. Summer Wages is one of those…
just for fun…. Har! I like this guy…Marc Twyman Last one….
I’m playing squeezebox for some groups of kids this morning. I’ve also packed my gut-bucket bass and a big bag of various shakers and other percussion instruments like washboards and a “toad” and some guiros and my djembe. I’ll get some volunteers to come up… Read More
Here’s polka great Ray Budzilek performing the Running Wild polka… And since we’re having a polka party, here’s that great band from Buffalo, Scrubby and the Dynatones playing Blondie’s polka… And one more….The Honky Express playing The Concertina Polka I love the tiny radio studio… Read More
…we don’t have an ocean…just a big lake. So, we don’t have any real use for sea shanties. What we need are lake shanties. In the absence of lake shanties, here are some sea shanties. Just pretend they’re lake shanties, ok?
Ghost Riders in the Sky was written back in 1948 by Stan Jones. This song, about cowboys chasing the Devil’s herd, has been recorded by many many performers. Back in the day here in Toronto, I don’t know how many times I watched the late… Read More
27th Street 