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Every once in a while, the accordion has a brief moment in the sun (see the widespread popularity of "Stereo Love" back in 2011 for the most recent example.) P ...
Yakima's Gary Malner is 80 years old and has been playing the accordion for 72 years. ... Malner’s fingers gracefully press the accordion’s keyboard and bass buttons.
AYSIA RODRIGUEZ 23 / nonprofit manager. Her hobbies: Electric bass, poetry readings, painting On a desert island, she’d bring: A trampoline, Spotify, and a body pillow 8 P.M. EXPLORATEUR, BOSTON ...
Pete Jolly, a jazz pianist and accordion player known for his disciplined work as a studio musician as well as his improvisational keyboarding in live performances, has died. He was 72.
"The accordion was invented in 1840, and this is after the classical period, the baroque period, and so on," she says. "It was designed to be played as a portable instrument, so that took it out ...
This accordion was made by Gebrüder Ludwig, in Zwota, Saxony, Germany, around 1889-1905. It has double bellows, 3 bass keys, 10 treble buttons, and 2 stops. This accordion is embossed: GEBR: LUDWIG'S ...
Randy Falcon, the legendary Cajun instrument maker who patented the double accordion, died Saturday night from complications of Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 69.
After a four-year stint in the U.S. Coast Guard, he took his one-of-a-kind Cirelli Accordion (140 bass buttons, 43 piano keys, roughly 2,000 parts, wooden guts, plastic shell, steel and aluminum ...
Leslie Molson played bass accordion in the group. She says Kuehr ignored people who made fun of accordions. LESLIE MOLSON: Part of what his dream was to spread the gospel of the accordion when he ...
Then the Accordion Keys and Bass Duo will perform original music at 8.15pm and at 9pm Trio Rondine will play their set.
On his eclectic collaboration with jazz bassist Sam Albright and percussionist James Clark, accordionist Greg Speck temporarily steps away from the zydeco-centric sphere he’s long been associated with ...
What you get is the 14-piece Main Squeeze Orchestra, an all-female, all-accordion ensemble based in New York City. The group has just released its first album. Sometime in March 2002, Walter Kuehr ...