I haven’t been playing much button accordion lately. Here’s a tune I used to play quite a bit.
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Now that’s a funny looking banjo….
In my early 40s I had this idea that I should learn to play diatonic button accordion. I was living in a Portuguese-Canadian area of Toronto and from time to time I heard some of the old Portuguese folk/dance tunes – corridinhos, viras and so… Read More
Roger Lanteigne on accordion
I think we all need something to get our minds off the American election. I haven’t shared much button accordion music lately, so I’d like to remedy that today. Here’s the excellent Acadian player Roger Lanteigne tearing it up. Might fine, mighty fine. I believe… Read More
Star of Logy Bay
Back when I was playing a lot of button accordion, and hadn’t yet fallen hard for clawhammer banjo, I did a little busking in places like Kensington and St. Lawrence Markets. I played a hodgepodge of material, squeezebox music from various countries. I think the… Read More
Mazurka time
Back when I played a lot of button accordion, there was a lovely little mazurka I used to like to play. I don’t recall the name of it. It may be that wherever I found it, it was just called Mazurka. If you’re unfamiliar with… Read More
Winse Saunders
I stumbled across Winse Saunders on the YouTube machine this evening. I don’t know anything about him except he’s from Newfoundland and he squeezes the hell out of that accordion of his. If any readers know anything about Mr. Saunders, please comment.
El Parche
I came across a nice little NPR piece on the YouTube machine about “El Parche”, the late Esteban ‘Steve’ Jordan. Mr. Jordan was an individualist, very hard to pigeonhole into a category. Conjunto? Latin jazz? Cumbia? He had a very distinctive accordion sound. Mr. Jordan… Read More
Teaching or not
I’ve been teaching a young fellow how to play the triple row button accordion for about a year and a half. He’s doing quite well. That is to say he has all the tools he needs to be a good player. Just add practice. He’s… Read More
Mussels in the Corner/The Leaving of Liverpool
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
Around the world by button accordion
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
27th Street 