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A set of jigs from button accordion player Nuala Hehir from Ennis, Co. Clare and fiddle player Liz Gaughan, originally from Manchester, England and now living in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. They learned the first tune from Clare concertina player Gearóid O’Halloran and they associate the second with the late Joe Liddy, fiddle player and composer from Co. Leitrim.

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Recorded at the Fleadh Nua held in Ennis in 2005, button accordion player Darra Mulhearn from Ennis, Co. Clare plays the multi-part reel “The Mason’s Apron”.

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This was one of the songs played by the World Orchestra during the Coupe Mondiale in Auckland, New Zealand.

I’m playing in there with my accordion orchestra and with other accordionists around the world.

Title: “Video Games Live”
Arr.: Joan Cochran Sommers
Original Composers: “Halo Theme Song” by Martin O’Donnell & Michael Salvatori; “Civilization IV Theme Song” & “Baba Yetu” (Civilization IV) by Christopher Tin & Stanford Talisman; “Bounty Hunter Theme Song” by Jeremy Soule; “? (Hikari)/Simple and Clean” by Hikaru Utada

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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.

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#1 The Overture from I Capuleti e I Montecchi.(Bellini) Performed by: Count Guido Deiro (1886 – 1950) Italian born composer and Vaudeville headliner who introduced (1910), named and popularized the piano-accordion in America. The first to play the instrument onstage, on the radio, in film (Vitaphone) and sound recordings (Edison). Known as the virtuoso of the accordion he was the first accordionist to play the “Palace” and composed the theme music for the Broadway hit “Kismet”. Deiro discovered, professionally developed and married the teenaged Mae West. They performed on the same bill for nearly four years.(1913-1916). This 1929 Vitaphone is the first sound on film of the piano-accordion and is Part 1 of two selections. See www.guidodeiro.com for illustrated pages on the making of this Vitaphone.

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A christmas project with accordion, flutes and other acoustic “instruments”. The original music is from the Legend of Zelda series. (Mostly from The Wind Waker, full song list below.)

MP3 here: http://www.speedyshare.com/704964519.html

0:04 Medli’s Prayer (part of the opening theme)
0:21 Makar’s Prayer (also part of the opening theme)
0:40 Medli’s Prayer again
0:52 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer
1:04 Overworld (Ocean Theme)
1:28 Zelda’s Lullaby
1:34 Dark World (A Link to the Past)
1:44 Aryll’s Theme + Medli’s Prayer
1:56 Aryll’s Theme + Makar’s Prayer + Zelda’s Lullaby
2:08 An arrangement of the original Zelda Overworld theme

Most of these songs were already included in a medley at the end of the game though. (The Staff Credits music.)

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Piano accordion player Dean Warner plays a set of reels, ending with “The Sandymount”. Originally from Leeds, England, Dean now lives near Lurgan, Co. Armagh.

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A version oh this SCOTTISH (le canal en octobre) of Frederic Paris circulated already on Youtube, in spite of the bad quality of recording she is continuously visited and i do not count any more the requests to obtain the partition, what explains this new version. the harmonies are very simple 3 chords but the right hand accepts readily some effects of notes. the partition is available on my blog;

http://domriviere.over-blog.com

Dominique Riviere

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“Vegas Lights” now available on iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vegas-lights/id375334329

“PHamous Accordian Cover” now available on iTunes

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/phamous-accordion-midi-mafia/id381429848

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Featuring Joyce

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A set of jigs by piano accordion player Jimmy Keane and fiddle player Seán Cleland, both from Chicago. Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann lovers will remember the great duet between Jimmy and Liz Carroll when they won the Duets title in Buncrana in the late 1970s. Here they play “The Ships in Full Sail”, “The Bohola Jig” and “The Irishman’s Heart to the Ladies”. They were recorded at the 2008 Comhaltas North American Convention, held in the Hilton Hotel at Parsippany, New Jersey between the 26th and 30th of March.

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