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Crawdad Wranglers sing Jambalaya at Bread and Roses fest, cajun accordion

admin — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 16:06:04 +0000

Ryan’s site – http://www.captainfiddle.com The Crawdad Wranglers, led by Ryan Thomson on accordion, perform at the annual Bread and Roses Festival in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The band continues to perform throughout New England. Other regular band members include Paul Mangion on percussion and vocals, Steve Brown on drums, Jeff Lind on bass, and Brian Richardson on guitar.

Duration : 0:2:6

Pipe Organ – Toccata in D Minor

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:16:11 +0000

Johann Sebastian Bach’s famous “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” performed on the pipe organ by me.
(However, I can only play the Toccata. The Fugue is mind-boggling :S)

I’m pretty sure that in some countries it’s considered a felony to be able to play a pipe organ and not perform this song at least once. I mean, it’s like the pipe organ’s trademark song!

Also, be reasonable in judging this. I haven’t had one day of organ lessons in my life, and this is probably only my fifth time playing the Toccata on an actual organ (played it on the piano all the other times), so it’s not the best performance you’re ever going to see.
If I get any better at it later, I may reupload it.

…hmmmm?! In 10 months time I’ve only uploaded 3 accordion videos?!
THAT HAS TO CHANGE, AND OH BY GEE BY GOSH BY GUM BY JOVE IT WILL!

Duration : 0:2:50

Ryan Thomson, cajun accordion, leads Crawdad Wranglers in “Bosco Stomp”

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:35:16 +0000

Duration : 0:2:24

Accordion video 1.

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:31:20 +0000

My accordion project. I will be posting more videos of this project soon. At the moment it is only playing 26 notes (no bass notes.) It’s running on a noisy blower so sorry for that but this accordion is part of a larger organ build and will not be running on this blower. If you a wondering what my next project may be, well I fancy a go at mechanical guitar or banjo.

Duration : 0:6:10