The hippest cat ever to swing an accordion, Art Van Damme dared go where no man had gone before: jazz accordion. He started taking accordion lessons at the age of nine, and moved on to classical ...
With our brains set on “shuffle,” programmed now to process (if not to crave) a constant barrage of random sounds and images, a quartet such as the Four Bags no longer seems like the desperately jokey ...
Place the word “jazz” next to the word “accordion” and you have what most jazz fans would agree is an oxymoron. The sound, the style -- even the look -- of the instrument are far more commonly ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Straight-ahead swing, the kind of classic jazz that's an old friend to many, fills the Friday, Oct. 17, Just Friends concert that kicks off Purdue University Bands' jazz season.
The resurgence of the accordion during the past decade, in jazz in particular, seems almost to rival the instrument's popularity during the 1950s, with mainstream artists like Art Van Damme and Angelo ...
In 2002, 15-year-old Cory Pesaturo became the youngest person ever to win the U.S. National Accordion Championship. Since then, the Cumberland-bred virtuoso has picked up a slew of additional honors, ...
ATTLEBORO — Those who think cool music can't come from an accordion may want to stop by the studios of cable TV station DoubleACS and radio station WARA sometime between 11 a.m. and 6:42 p.m. on ...
San Diego has plenty of music festivals, but none are as stylistically diverse as The Carlsbad Music Festival. Friday and Saturday, I heard old time fiddling from Clinton Davis, the genial solo guitar ...
The squeeze was on in Costa Mesa on Sunday, which was a good thing for fans of accordion music, who got a big helping of it during the seventh annual Orange County Accordion Festival at the Orange ...
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