Latvian-born accordionist Ksenija Sidorova introduces her wonderful instrument and its colourful history. Close your eyes, and picture someone playing the accordion. If the first image that pops into ...
The accordion in the Americas : klezmer, polka, tango, zydeco, and more! / edited by Helena Simonett
From old world to new shores / Helena Simonett -- Accordion jokes : a folklorist's view / Richard March -- From chanky-chank to Yankee chanks : the Cajun accordion as identity symbol / Mark F. DeWitt ...
Excerpted from Chapter Six: Out of the Closet, from Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America (footnotes omitted). Copyright © 2012 by Marion ...
Musician and accordion designer Gilberto Reyes met us at the door of Hohner’s national headquarters then located in historic Glen Allen, Virginia. He and I had many mutual friends but had never met in ...
The autobiographical Made in Louisiana tells the evolutionary journey of how Marc Savoy, a farmer’s son and chemical engineering graduate, became the world’s foremost builder of the premier Cajun ...
A musical family history inspired Helmi Harrington to create Superior's accordion museum. Helmi Harrington's mother survived World War II by entertaining troops with accordion music and taught ...
Tom Cordoni has a theory about why people are attracted to accordion music. “What sets it apart from other instruments? It’s got humor and will make you smile. When people hear it they’re ready for ...
Walk into North Canaan’s historic railroad station, and you’ll see hundreds of accordions stacked floor to ceiling. It’s a wall of gleaming buttons, piano keys, mother-of-pearl, rhinestones, and ...
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