I’m posting the following video for my button accordion student Elliot. This clip starts out with Mr. Hibbs performing Mussels in the Corner and then The Leaving of Liverpool, two tunes Elliot plays pretty well. http://youtu.be/8jODeSgagG4 Looking back in the fullness of time, Mr. Hibbs… Read More
Here’s an assortment of nice button accordion performances from all over the place I dug up on the YouTube machine. Let’s start with a Norwegian player named Øystein Nicolaisen. http://youtu.be/-5UnmiYqL1g And now over to Ireland with a performance by Conor Keane. And to Newfoundland…Danny Benoit… Read More
I was thinking about my first exposure to button accordion and I realized it must have been as a kid of 10 or 12 watching the late Harry Hibbs and his TV show At the Caribou. I checked out the YouTube machine to see if… Read More
That was PauloPattes. Very nice performance of a tune by Y.F. Perroches. There are several performances of this tune available on the YouTube machine for your listening pleasure. Here’s one more, with a slightly different feel about it. http://youtu.be/JDM2OH-TwDQ This one was performed by Chaîne… Read More
These are a little different than the polka music we mostly hear in North America. This is Clive Williams. You may recall I posted one of his performances the other day. Now here’s Mike Smith playing a French polka on hurdy gurdy.
That was JackDiatonique. The bourrée is a French dance from the 17th century. Parts of the tune in the first video remind me of a Basques tune whose name I just can’t recall. Here’s Clive Williams… This next one has pipes and a big piano… Read More
I’ve been thinking about French Schottisches and learning to play a few of them on my button accordion. Here are some lovely examples I found on YouTube. Here is some very nice playing by a fellow whose YouTube handle is TheUniversalGenius… Now let’s move from… Read More
I realize I haven’t posted nearly enough accordion music lately and some readers will be disappointed. I’ll try to make it up to you with a Saturday morning Daily Dose. Here’s a fellow named Sean Folsom playing a 3-row chromatic button accordion from 1900. Now… Read More
Today’s Daily Dose takes us to Uruguay….La Sinfónica de Tambores http://youtu.be/eFDr79oaBkE And now, here’s Los Gauchos de Roldán http://youtu.be/ZijE-UarquA and one more…
I’ve been suggesting to one of my button accordion students that he should try to feel the rhythm of the music through his whole body. I found a delightful video of a Fogo Island kitchen party that illustrates exactly what I mean, and I showed… Read More
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