Your favorite accordion players?

[Zooberwerx]

Local celebrity Sid Sward:

 

[Fredrik E. Nilsen]

Stian Carstensen (here with his group Farmers Market and the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra) from Norway.

 

[Roland GR 88]

Cabbage rolls and coffee anyone .....?

 

[DirtDog]

It's the end of the world as we know it:

https://www.roland.com/us/products/fr-8x/

I was convinced this was an April Fools prank. But I see that many shops are selling this. Despite that, I still think it's a prank!!

 

[dindinbre]

Serbians are BY FAR the most superior accordion players in the world. In metal there is shredding guitar, in Serbian music there is shredding accordion. My favorites are:
Bane Vasic

Perica Zdravkovic

Mirko Kodic (on the right)

 

[Gravedigger Dav]

This is all pretty thin . . . . . here's the real thing, albeit Cajun squeezebox, with Jo-El Sonnier in an old clip from Sanborn's 'NIGHT MUSIC' NBC Series: I love to see him play this 95mph fastball version of Richard Thompson's 'Tear-Stained Letter' with a stage full of NYC session stalwarts (and Richard himself) hangin' on for dear life ! Turn this up LOUD ! !

It will be one of the regrets of my life that I never lived somewhere between the Texas line and Baton Rouge along Interstate 10 in Acadiana. Wonderful people, great food, and they love music and musicians. If you EVER get a chance to gig down there or spend time there, GO !

Love me some Cajun music. I grew up on the Texas Louisiana border. It is always a happy sound that make you want to grab another beer and dance.

 

[40Hz]

What happened when someone broke into the accordion players car??!!



They left another accordion.

Perfect pitch - when you toss an accordion out a second story window into the apartment's dumpster and it hits the set of bagpipes already in there.

 

[Richland123]

Those Darn Accordions

 

[Afc70]

Pretty cool

 

[eJake]

Perfect pitch - when you toss an accordion out a second story window into the apartment's dumpster and it hits the set of bagpipes already in there.

Yessss!!!

What's the range of an accordion??

Bout 30 feet if you have a good arm!

 

[Richland123]

Alex Meixner Band

Who else can play the accordion and trumpet at the same time?

 

[40Hz]

Love me some Cajun music. I grew up on the Texas Louisiana border. It is always a happy sound that make you want to grab another beer and dance.

Yeah! Creole and Zydeco both. (Although the differences between those two are mostly academic.) Great music those bands crank out!

The Pogues too. Trad Irish-Punk anyone?

 

[BassBrass]

Corey Pesaturo: I see him yearly in Lexington MA where he plays a for a children's music lessons benefit, he's one of the best all around musicians I've ever had the pleasure to see, and he's normal (although though of as superhuman after he plays) even does a TED Talk and consults with Rolland.
Pauline Oliveros: classical music/minimalist ambient artist who taught something she called "deep listening" to her many students. not entertaining, more spiritual perhaps here's Her TED Talk
Guy Klucevsek: I first heard him on ECM recordings in the 80s. Amazing musician. Here he is with Dave Douglas. I didn't look for his TED Talk.

 

[ScrewDevil]

 

[foolforthecity]

Hey, I'm from Texas… What can I say? Flaco Jimenez! And a really cool dude as well.

 

[Richland123]

Terrance Simien plays the button box

 

[ScrewDevil]

Momma's got a squeezebox...

 

[Fxpmusic]

Celso Piña is a rockstar.

 

[Fxpmusic]

This is also a great documentary. I believe there's a subtitled version as well . It tells the story of how a German shipment to Argentina ended up in coastal Colombia leading tothe adoption and funkification of the accordion.

 

[4SG]

Danny Federici
Garth Hudson
Jenny Conlee
Various members of Arcade Fire
Jerry Harrison (on 'Road to Nowhere')
Pete Townshend (for about 10 seconds on 'Squeezebox')
...and, of course, Weird Al.