Jeremiah McLane was one of Vermont’s best-known accordionists and traditional musicians. Then Annemieke Spoelstra was one of the state’s finest concert pianists. “We were musically introduced by a ...
THE young lad who fell in love with piano accordions in the 1930s is still in love. His 85-year-old hands ply the keyboard and buttons, turning puffs of air into an Argentine tango. Ron Pearce sits in ...
In the downstairs workshop of a Decatur bungalow, Jack Brantley and Kyle Turner keep accordions from across the country bellowing and droning. Why it matters: Brantley and Turner run Accordionology, a ...
Cody McSherry picked up the accordion about six years ago and loved it from the start. He plays both button-box and piano accordions and has performed at the Reading Liederkranz, Valentino’s ...
Attention audio mad scientists! If you happen to have a loony tune combining a polka and techno just waiting to get out of your head, here is your new best friend. The ORLA PK 400 Piano Accordion ...
Across the street from a wine lounge and a gourmet sausage spot on Glendale Boulevard in Atwater Village, a small red-and-white neon sign reads: "DAVE'S ACCORDION SCHOOL." Inside, black and tan cases ...
SHIVAMOGGA: Go back to the 1960s, and people of that era may remember legendary Raj Kapoor carrying a bulky instrument in the Hindi film Sangam and crooning the song ‘Har dil jo pyar karega’. Piano ...
We revisit a conversation we first aired in April 2023 which was the first installment of our series on people’s professions. We’ll learn what it takes to do different kinds of jobs and how these ...