We’re going to the show. I’ll report later.
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Gaby Haas and his Barndance Gang
From the Canadian Encyclopedia: Haas, who was given the appellation ‘Canada’s Mr. Polka’ (and latterly shared it with Walter Ostanek), began recording in 1950 with his band, The Barndance Gang and made over 50 albums and 60 singles, mostly of polkas and waltzes, many his… Read More
Galope à Benoit Dufresne
These boys are making some tasty jam. Very nice.
Le quadrille de Rivière-du-Loup
Looks like this fellow is playing a chromatic button accordion.
Starting the Day off Right
I can’t get enough of this melody
Clever, clever…a digital orchestra
I found this over at The Presurfer, a place where anything is possible. It is a digital orchestra created by putting together 20 YouTube videos of musicians playing music in Bb. You can start any or all of them at any time to adjust the… Read More
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
Waltz Time
Here’s some players who handle a waltz beautifully… This one below is on a “helicon” box, a diatonic accordion with long bass reeds for that oom-pah sound.
An Accordion Festival in Toronto?
Toronto needs an accordion festival. The city just doesn’t know it yet. Tuffy P and I are starting the conversation. How can we make this happen? I think the first step is to put together a group of organizers to brainstorm it out, make a… Read More
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