All posts tagged “accordion

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I can’t say I know…

Somebody landed on this chunk of blog real estate after having entered the following question in a search engine: “Are Norwegians Happy?” Seems like a sweeping generalization to me. I wondered how that strange question would lead someone to 27thstreet, until it struck me that… Read More

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Dolly

Here’s Paulino Bernal Paulino Bernal was born in 1939. Along with his brother Eloy and their group El Conjunto Bernal, he was a conjunto innovator and a diatonic accordion master, integrating an array of musical influences. In the early 70’s he gave up the “devil’s… Read More

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Fogo Island Accordion Group

These guys make me grin…. From Wikipedia: Fogo Island is also home to the island’s one and only ‘Fogo Island Accordion Group’, which started up in the 1990s with 5 girls from the fogo island central academy with one of the islands teacher’s ‘Gerald Freake’.… Read More

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Playing for the Kids

I had the pleasure this morning to play for a group of kids at an early learning centre. First I did a short set for a group of “toddlers”. They were very quiet and seemed amazed at the sounds coming from my button accordion. Next… Read More