Video short
on the Circle made by TelusTV
One Less Guitar: A Film about Accordion Noir
by Pull Focus Films
 
Geoff
Berner and the Squeezebox Circle Orchestra at Accordion Noir
Festival
Bonus: National Film
Board of Canada animation - The
Necktie (http://www.nfb.ca/film/necktie/) - watch it online!
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Resources:
Where
(and how) to buy an accordion (in
and around Vancouver)
Info
about playing and
maintaining accordions
- Accordion Basics - a series of YouTube clips
- Accordion Bass
Notation - a scan of a page from the American Accordionists'
Association about how bass notation should
be written
- Accordion Cafe is a growing online resource with lessons, sheet music, how to improvise info and more. Free registration required.
- Free
online accordion
lessons
- Accordion Playing for
Beginners - 6 part video lesson series, including how to
read accordion sheet music
- Accordion Radio - UK online
radio station: accordion music 24 hours a day
- Accordion Repairs
Made Easy - 80 page printed guide published in 1956, $24.95
- Accordion Revival - website
about maintaining accordions. The author will be publishing a book in
August 2012 ($25) which can be ordered online
- Print your own Accordion Revolution
stickers onto label paper!
- Accordeon
accordion simulator with versions for
iPhone, Ipad, or iPod Touch - search iTunes App Store for other
accordion-learning apps for piano accordion, chromatic button
accordion, and button box - such as the Piano Accordion Pro
for iPad - watch this YouTube clip to see it in action!
- Accordion Trainer: learn the left-hand buttons
with this (Windows-only) computer game
- Accordion WikiBook
- an introduction to the piano accordion: history, how it works, and an
instructional guide to beginning to intermediate-level playing
- Bass range chart:
see the bass buttons for standard (Stradella system) accordions - 12,
24, 32, 48, 60, 72, 96, and 120 bass accordions. Here's the equivalent
chart for the treble keyboard side
and one to decipher the symbols on the treble
registers
- Big Nick's Cajun Button Box lessons
- Alan's article: Reading jazz
charts on the accordion. For more sophisticated options,
see: Hans
Palm's Chord Combining article and the Stradella
Bass Combining chart (how to
combine buttons to get fancy chords). New! Frank Marocco's How to Create Additional
Chords on the Left Hand
- Debra Peters
(formerly from here, now in Austin) offers 3 volumes of DVD lessons: The ABCs of Piano Accordion Basics
- Gypsy Jazz Accordion:
lessons, charts, play alongs, and more
- Dave
Evans
teaches how
to do the bellows shake
- How it's made
- Science Channel video clip (5 minutes). Also see: Making stuff - Hohner
Accordions
- How To Play Accordion.net -
tips
from Enzo Giribaldi
- How to be an
accordion player by Geoff Berner: Introduction
online
- How to Maximize the Life of Your Accordion:
Accordion Apocalypse
- How to Travel With an Accordion
- Inside an accordion
- Let's
Polka
blog about new accordion-learning books: http://www.letspolka.com/2009/07/learning-to-play-accordion/
- Piano Accordion Owner's Manual and Buyer's Guide
- Pretty Complete Guide
to Squeezeboxes: online book, with chapters including
'Repairs & Maintenance', 'Care and Feeding Your Squeezebox', and
more
- Tex-Mex song library
- 500+ songs, scales, chord charts and more in tabbed-text format - for
3-row diatonic accordion
Links-
Vancouver and area:
Links-
everywhere else:
Accordion
manufacturers and dealers
Other
Links
- Accordeonrama
- French site with links to sheet music ('partitions'), manufacturers,
and lots more (in French or Dutch)
- Accordion Apocalypse
circle (San
Francisco) mini-documentary featuring Skylar Fell and
Duckmandu
- Accordion
Association of Calgary
- Accordion backstraps
- Accordion Hero online game
- Accordion Idol - great YouTube
clip, even though it's too late to win the free accordion
- Accordion Tutor -
Accordion Course for Beginners ebook + online or CD lessons (not free)
- Accordion USA - news and more
- AccordionLinks.com
- Accordion
Museum at Alex &
Bell Accordions, New York City
- Accordion
Videos - http://accordionvideos.info/
- Accordion
Videos and Links - http://www.linkonardo.com/en/accordion/
- Accordions
Worldwide: Weekly accordion news
from around the world about accordions and other related bellows driven
instruments.
- Accordionist.org:
The Online Accordionist Community is a great place to meet other
accordionists, accordion teachers, and repairers. Share practice
techniques and repair tips; news of concerts, recordings and
competitions; music files and sheet music for accordion.
- Behind the Bellows - 60 minute documentary by Steve Mobia about the accordion with Dick Contino, Frank Marocco and many more
- The New York Times reports on the
accordion-making centre of the world: Castelfidardo
- Chromatic Accordion repairs (in Alberta): Edwin Erickson, Buck Lake, Alberta, Tel: 780-682-2368
- Bay-area
accordionist Henri Ducharme
offers accordion sheet music arrangements of punk classics and more
- Edmonton Accordion Society
- Finale Notepad - the entry level version
of this very good (commercial) music notation
software is now free and worth getting (Windows & Mac versions)
- The Great American Accordionist -
Pro tips, choosing and packing an accordion, musican listings and more
- Hohner Squeezebox App - mimics
the company's Corona diatonic models - a variety of 2 row and 3 row
accordions in different keys, for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch - even
virtual pulls and pushes.
- Infinite Accordion
- multi-genre Internet radio station playing non-stop accordion music
- K&K
Accordion miking system- order
it locally from Bone
Rattle Music on Commercial Drive
- KRVS- Louisiana Cajun public radio
- Raymond Laforest
had what might be the largest collection of accordions in Canada, with
many photos online.
- Let's
Polka- accordion directory website; events, listings, and more
- MuseScore - free music
composition and notation software for Mac, Windows & Linux
- Music Prevents
Delinquency - you better believe it! From a 1959 book of
accordion lessons for beginners.
- Quebec Accordion Museum & Carrefour
Mondial de l'Accordeon
- RareTunes
- listen to recordings of traditional tunes of Scotland, etc
- Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion
in America - by Marion
Jacobson. Newly published book considers the accordion's contradictory
status as both an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular
music in the twentieth century.
- Squeezebox Stories
- NPR audio documentary
- Virtual Accordion Museum - images and info on many models (mostly
Hohners), often with sound samples
- WWOZ-
New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage community radio
Accordion
Noir Festival: September 12-15, 2013
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Accordion Noir
Festival 5 with events including:
- September 13: The Big Squeeze - opening of the
Accordion Noir Festival, with
Norwegian alt-indy accordion siren Guro
von Germeten, Geoff Berner,
Proud Animal, Lache
Cerce, Alison Jenkins -The Cobalt Hotel, 917 Main
- September 14: Accordion Noir
Festival presents Accordion Dance Party w. The Flying Folk Army, Creaking Planks, High
Society - Grandview Legion
- September 15, 8 pm: Accordion
Noir
Festival presents Maria in
the
Shower, Geoff Berner - the Waldorf
- September 16, 4 pm: Accordion Noir Festival presents: Mistakes
I Have Lived Through + the Accordion Youth Orchestra - Anza
Club
- September 16, 9 pm: Accordion Noir Festival presents: The
Underdog Instrument Grudge Match - Anza Club
Facebook users can
stay in the ANFest loop by visiting our Facebook
page!
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Last year -
Accordion
Noir Festival 4 - Sept 23-25, 2011...
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Gone but not forgotten: click here for more information
about September 2010's 3rd incarnation of the Accordion Noir
Fest 3, a full week (plus a day) worth of accordion-friendly music and
events. Thanks to all who helped organize and volunteer to help make it
happen, to all the musicians, and to all who attended.
Click for more details
- or listen
to the radio promo from the week-long festival. Video clips of
performers at the ANFest 3's closing event at Cafe Montmartre can be viewed on YouTube.
But squeezebox playing happens all year round - After the September
festival, keep your eyes
peeled for Accordion Noir's ongoing Pleasing
Squeezing series of performances - with events
posted on squeezeboxcircle.org.
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