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AccordionBruce
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Accordion Historian 🤓 🪗 Author of Accordion Revolution: a People’s History of the Accordion in North America from the Industrial Revolution to Rock ‘n’ Roll (2019) 📚 🪗 Successful Accordion Emoji sponsor (2020) 🤩 🪗 Accordion Noir Radio DJ (2006 – )
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It’s Bandcamp Friday! Here’s my old band “Beast, Please Be Still” where I met my wife (she played accordion). It’s post-rock but with violin, flute, electronic wind instrument, and cellphone feedback? Very 2007.

Enjoy: beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com/album/beast-...

#bandcampfriday
Beast, Please Be Still, by Beast, Please Be Still
7 track album
beastpleasebestill.bandcamp.com
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RIP Mark Volman, founding member of The Turtles and one half of Flo & Eddie (pictured here - Mark is on the left, Howard Kaylan on the right). I was fortunate enough to do some of my very first live performances as an opening act for Flo & Eddie in 1983 at the Bottom Line in NYC.
There could be books on every member of that Figgy Duff

Not sure they’d all want anything to do with that though! 😅
Trying to get out my vision of “what was happening with the accordion”, can obscure the labour and lives of the artists who were there when the accordions weren’t playing, or who did the work to make the scene happen, or were — frankly — more important than the accordion player sometimes
Great article! Thank you!
Figgy Duff were really interesting to read and write about in my #AccordionRevolution book. I’m pretty sure I didn’t do them justice in my urge to tell my story of folk music accordion trends

Like most Canadian bands they haven’t gotten enough attention
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Today (Aug 15) in #NLMusicHistory...

In 1979, The Newfoundland Herald profiled accordion aficionado GEOFF BUTLER. At age 19, Geoff joined Newfoundland & Labrador's premier folk-rock band FIGGY DUFF.

@geoffmeeker.bsky.social #FiggyDuff @accordionbruce.bsky.social #Accordion
Separated from our place in Gastown by a few hundred meters because everywhere East of the Sea Bus remains dedicated to industrial use / which left #DTES residents to fight for Crab Park 🦀 and it being Bob Mosesed–off from the rest of the Sea Wall all these years
#Vancouver
#Bikeyvr
Trump's ending de minimis exemption (which would add 35% tax to shipments from Canada less than $800)

Means I might have to close my #AccordionRevolution Etsy to US buyers after August 1

So if you want #Accordion books, stickers or buttons, you might want to order in the next week or so
AccordionBruce.etsy.com
Big thread over on #accodion #Mastodon (such as it is) about an electronic melodeon, somebody found

I thought you might be interested @johnspiers.co.uk

mastodon.social/@AccordionBr...
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Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
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out today - including the work of many good friends of mine. an album of new Yiddish music to benefit Abu Amsha's Gaza Birds Singing, a musical, educational, and therapeutic project in Gaza.
LIDER MIT PALESTINE לידער מיט פּאַלעסטינע: New Yiddish Songs of Grief, Fury, and Love, by lider mit palestine
17 track album
lidermitpalestine.bandcamp.com
Purchased a copy of this, with the great Daniel Kahn and a cause of our time how can we not?
This week's #bandcampfriday episode of Accordion Noir Festival radio is available for listening

With #accordionbandcamp links and recommendations for all the artists we played so you can go and load 90% of your money into their tip-jars

So pass some cash around. That's what an economy is for 🪗💸
AccNoir–2025-07-30, Bandcamp August Friday in July
(Cover image above: Just heard the great Flaco Jimenez has died. More from him next week. For now a few of his records from Smithsonian/Folkways are available on Bandcamp. And today is Bandcamp Fri…
accordionuprising.wordpress.com
First appearance of an accordion in Canadian history is at an Ursuline convent in Quebec City. We know because they kept the receipt in 1843
AccordionRevolution.org

#Accordion #Canada #Quebec #FolkMusic #AccordionRevolution
Little wave of #AccordionRevolution summer orders this week 🌞 🪗
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#Accordion #buttons #stickers
My mistake. I may have been forwarding posts from Australia or somewhere?
Oh I guess it’s today

Well there you go
I guess #WorldEmojiDay is the winning hashtag #️⃣
The day before #EmojiDay we can’t let the Flute Emoji go unappreciated 🪈