West Point preps for Black Irish invasion Jul 29, 2008
He s Irish, of course, and has been playing music for more than 35 years on banjo, melodeon, concertina, guitar and trumpet. Sicilian Richard Restivo has been teaching music to children for more than 20 years. (San Andreas Calaveras Enterprise, CA)
Rap, grime and the hurdy-gurdy Jul 16, 2008
English bagpipes jostle with hurdy-gurdy and melodeon; but the track that may yet take Moray into the mainstream is All You Pretty Girls. "I was YouTube surfing and I found [XTC's] video for it, and it lodged in my brain," he says. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Accordions Breathe Easier Since Smoking Ban Sep 28, 2007
In addition to the accordion, these pub sessions feature concertina, melodeon and Uilleann (Irish) bagpipes, all of which are bellows-driven. Anecdotal evidence had suggested that accordions subjected to heavy smoke collected particles inside, much like a person's lungs would. (Health-Finder)
Folk futureNew stars take centre stage at Cambridge's music festival Jul 31, 2007
Fusing traditional English, Irish and Scandinavian jigs, reels and polkas they played with an assurance beyond their years on two fiddles, a guitar and melodeon. There is also a lot of excitement about Lisa Knapp, who has developed a strong reputation for her modern re-workings of folk songs, as well as her own songwriting. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Singer-songwriter sees Scottish tradition in the present, too Jun 21, 2007
And while he was raised up in a musical family ---- "My mum played melodeon, my dad played a little fiddle, and my grandfather sang Gaelic songs" ---- it was still a bit of a fluke that he found a career in music, MacLean said. "I went to college to be an engineer. ... At that time, we were playing in little acoustic folk bands. We used to run a little folk club in the town where I went to school. There was a band called the Tannahill Weavers, and they had just lost their fiddle player, and they... (North County Times)
What's On: Concerts Mar 23, 2007
Andrew Downing's Melodeon performs original music to score the classic silent film The Shock Fri. 8 p.m. ($15/$10/$5). (Toronto Star)
History and faith Petersburg churches offering self-guided tours for Religious Freedom and Heritage Month Jan 12, 2007
At Trinity United Methodist Church on South Sycamore Street, visitors will be able to see the church s melodeon a pump organ that was purchased in 1858 and is believed to be the first musical instrument in any Petersburg church. Back in those days, some people were more conservative, said David Reames, chairman of the pastor-parish relations committee at the church. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
