By MARGALIT FOX “A gentleman,” a widely repeated anonymous quotation has it, “is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.” By those lights, Walter Kühr was unequivocally no gentleman. Mr. Kühr, who died in Manhattan on Jan. 2, at 59, was for decades an evangelist of the instrument, as[…]
Affectionately dubbed the “punk rock version of Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares” (NY Music Daily), Black Sea Hotel “performs with a refined emotion that hits with the magnetic pull of rock-bound sirens“ (Paul Schomer (Producer, NPR). The powerhouse Balkan a cappella trio are known for their outrageous vocal sonorities, yet[…]
BRASS & BELLOWS: Unbutton your Bond The world’s only all female accordion orchestra and a 10-piece brass band team up at the Brooklyn Bowl, for an epic, cinematic spectacle of movie music and Balkan dances. Fourteen ladies on fourteen accordions will merge into your darkness and tickle all your genre-bending[…]
Main Squeeze Orchestra’s Valentine’s Day show involves tales of true love and epilepsy, songs from The Beach Boys, Edith Piaf, Lady Gaga, Kurt Weill, Elvis and more, and fourteen ladies — all playing accordion. For one precious day, we can pretend like love is a single-edged sword that will slice[…]
Main Squeeze Orchestra at the Bowery Poetry Club By Marty If you missed our, ahem, SOLD OUT Russian Classical Music Show, you can vicariously experience it through this lovely write-up by picture-happy Marty of blog world fame. Stay tuned for a repeat performance … http://www.trippingwithmarty.com/almost-live-from-new-york-city/2012/5/7/main-squeeze-orchestra-at-the-bowery-poetry-club.html Spaciba!