Accordion
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Famous accordionists
Players of the accordion include:
- American Big Band leader Lawrence Welk is also well known for his accordion playing, especially on his long-running television show.
- Dick Contino, who appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show a record 48 times.
- Steve Roxton International Acclaimed Accordionist now based in Jersey and England Steve Roxton Website
- Nirvana Bassist Krist Novoselic played the accordion on MTV Unplugged Live in New York in 1993
- [2] Gorka Hermosa, composer and concertist.
- Abraham Lincoln
- Polka stars Barbie Girl, Angelo DiPippo, Myron Floren and Frankie Yankovic
- Song parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic
- Venezuelan accordionist Roberto Ruscitti
- French accordionist and composer Yann Tiersen
- Slovenian accordionist and composer, author of Europa's most played instrumental song, the Trompetenecho Slavko Avsenik
- Another Slovenian accordionist and composer Lojze Slak
- American Accordionist, Composer and Philosopher Dr. William Schimmel
- Austrian Keyboardist with Cannonball Adderley, Weather Report and The Zawinul Syndicate – Joe Zawinul
- Classical & Concert accordionists Friedrich Lips, Viatcheslav Semjonov, Yuri Shishkin, Mika Vayrynen,John Serry, Sr.,Carmen Carrozza, Henry Doktorski, Stanley Darrow, Joanna Arnold-Darrow, Sergej Osokin, Alexander Selivanov, Basha Slavinska, Josif Puritz, Rade Mijatovic, Dragan Vasiljevic , Igor Zavadsky
- Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket
- Free Bass Accordionists: John Serry, Sr.
- Rock musicians Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, Garth Hudson of The Band, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Jason Webley, Bruce Hornsby, Rob Hyman of The Hooters, Joseph Byrd, John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, Dennis DeYoung of Styx, Danny Elfman of Oingo Boingo, Neil Cicierega of Lemon Demon, Billy Joel, Pete Townshend of The Who, Franz Nicolay of The World/Inferno Friendship Society, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Gabby La La, Michel Martin host of new NPR show Rough Cuts, Zach Condon of Beirut, Patrick Wolf, Rick Wright of Pink Floyd who used one on live versions of "Outside the Wall" with Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981, Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, Keith Emerson, John Evan of Jethro Tull (band), Sheryl Crow, Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, Sweet Jonny V (Arabella) of Analog Arts Ensemble, Jeremy Barnes of Neutral Milk Hotel fame plays accordion with many Eastern European melodies in his band, A Hawk and a Hacksaw; and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir (aka Kría Brekkan), formerly of the Icelandic band múm, Jenny Connlee of The Decemberists, Wix Wickens, Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates of The Divine Comedy. Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren and the late Danny Federici of the E Street Band play accordions, all simultaneously at one concert. Federici's replacement Charles Giordano also plays the accordion.
- Brazilian forró and country music players as Sivuca, Dominguinhos, Renato Borghetti, Hermeto pascoal and Toninho Ferraguti have achieved a very unique and virtuoso form of playing jazz and Brazilian/Latin music.
- Zydeco musicians Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural of Buckwheat Zydeco, Clifton Chenier, John R. Capozello of jazz combo "The Blue Notes" and he played in US Air Force Band,[4] Beau Jocques, Kevin Hearn, Jason Webley, Boozoo Chavis, Tom Tierney of Red Sails, Jesse Rifkin and Natalie Mirsky of The Wailing Wall, and also Yuri Lemeshev of the band Gogol Bordello. Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists.
- Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly
- Argentine tango composer, Ástor Piazzolla, played the bandoneón, a cousin to the accordion.
- Basque musician and composer Kepa Junkera plays the trikitixa, a two-row diatonic accordion.
- Ivan Lenyo plays piano accordion for the ska-punk-reggae-ethnic Ukrainian band, Haydamaky.
- Cajun musician Steve Riley of Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
- Tejano musician Flaco Jimenez of the Texas Tornados.
- James Fearnley of the Pogues should not be overlooked as an agent in the resurgence of popularity of the accordion during the 1980s.
- Kimmo Pohjonen, experimental and groundbreaking Finnish accordionist.
- Lisko Mäkinen and Antti Laurila incorporate accordions in metal music in the Finnish band Turisas.
- Kenny Margolis, accordionist (and piano player) in The Mink DeVille band.
- Juho Kauppinen of the Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani
- Those Darn Accordions is an accordion-based rock and polka band.
- Matthew Thiessen, a member of Relient K, plays the accordion in their song Maybe Its Maybeline.
- John Lennon played the accordion when he was young. Accordion Beatles
- The Beach Boys hit songs "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows" from the album Pet Sounds has Frank Marocco and Carl Fontina playing the accordion.
- Jaleel White's (fictional) character Steve Urkel of Family Matters played the accordion.
- Drew Carey from The Drew Carey Show uses the accordion on the show.
- Members Régine Chassagne and Richard Reed Parry of the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire play the accordion in both live shows and on albums.
- Suzie Gagnon plays the accordion with Cirque du Soleil in the touring show Corteo, and previously (for 10 years) with their touring show Alegria.
- Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies plays accordion in many of the London trio's pieces.
- Joshua Camp plays accordion in the group, One Ring Zero.
- Corn Mo plays accordion and keyboards. He plays with numerous bands including .357 Lover
- Peggy Keith played accordion for Formula 4.
- Courtney Von Drehle plays accordion for the group, 3 Leg Torso.
- Mary Faber, occasional pirate/cross-dresser from the Bloody Jack (novel) by Louis A. Meyer, plays concertina, even though historically they hadn't been invented yet. An example of the "Pirate Accordion Anachronism" that has been perpetuated in popular culture and imagery since at least Rudyard Kipling's 1897 Captains Courageous, (set in 1751). Kipling squeezes in an accordion eighty years before it was invented. Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean's theme-park ride had a pirate playing a concertina, and the film repeated this, again putting post-industrial age accordions back into the hands of sixteenth century seafarers.
Some musicians have a love-hate relationship with the accordion. Famous anti-accordion comments include: "A gentleman is a man who can play the piano accordion ... and doesn't", and "An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of the assassin" (From Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary).
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Accordion organizations
- Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes
- American Accordionists' Association (AAA)
- Accordion Teacher's Guild (ATG)
- American Accordion Musicological Society
- Closet Accordion Players of America (CAPA)
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References
- ^ Cronk, Sam (1997-05-21). Accordion. CHICO Instrument Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
- ^ How Accordions Are Made
- ^ p.98, Howard, Rob (2003) An A to Z of the Accordion and related instruments Stockport: Robaccord Publications ISBN 0-9546711-0-4
- ^ http://www.offutt.af.mil/Assoc_Units/Band/htmlpages/AOBhistory.html#1951
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External links
- Steve Roxton UK Accordionist
- www.accordion-wiki.com The Wiki all about the accordion.
- AccordionFlashcards.com, sets of flashcards to learn the stradella bass system.
- XenoHarmonica, an button accordion emulator for PC.
- www.accordionradio.co.uk - Radio station where you can listen to examples of accordion music 24 hours a day
- Isidro Larrañaga Accordion Orchestra
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Accordions Worldwide website.
- Homepage of the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes, a member of the IMC, sponsored by UNESCO
- Information about accordions with Stradella bass system, table for creation of additional chords with the Stradella bass system
- Squeezebox, an open repository for squeezebox knowledge on Wikia
- Accordions A collection of media and videos of musicians playing the accordion
- Chromatic keyboard
- Accordion from Balkans in France - Jasko Ramic with BalkArt band
- Accordion and Music Blog
- "Accordionists" Blog
- Accordions in Classical Music
- UK Accordionist
- Piano Accordion
- Diatonic Accordion Academy
- American Accordion Musicological Society
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- www.accordion-wiki.com The Wiki all about the accordion.
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