iPad Accordion

Accordion App for iPad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBHeEmKQ_uI
Yikes! I may have found a reason to get an iPad. Eventually. The action on the "keys" seems surprisingly realistic!

Duckmandu plays "Highway to Hell" on accordion with a flaming hat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiNoA3fc0y4
Check out my husband Valle's youtube site for more videos from the movie screening of "Behind the Bellows" an accordion documentary by Steve Mobius!

June is National Accordion BEWARENESS Month!

In 1989 June was officially named Accordion Awareness Month. If you look it up like I did, it will likely take you to http://www.ladyofspain.com/ where you can get a run down of the accordion celebration happening at City Hall in San Francisco on June 11. I think it starts around noon! San Francisco was the first American city where accordions were built, the Guerrini accordion. There is a really great link about Guerrini here http://online.sfsu.edu/~hl/a.html
So, don't forget to be AWARE of that accordion lurking in your closet that wants to be played ....maybe you should pick it up, or give it to some nice accordion fan you know! And if you've kept it under your house for 15 years, it might look perfect now, but as you start to play it it will fall apart. Find a nice repair shop that might want it for hard-to-find parts that aren't made anymore.  Most of all, BEWARE! Accordions are insidiously cool.  Treat them with respect, because in a way they are a breathing rare creature. They just need us to live.

Up Early in the Morning, so why not work on an accordion!

This is BIG and awesome! Check it Out!

Behind the Bellows-Film & Accordion Show
Saturday, May 8 2010, 8:00 PM $5 - $10 Suggested Donation
The Fishtank
3405 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CA
Come attend this screening for a Documentary by Steve Mobia, "Behind the Bellows!" Come support this amazing film and help get it into festivals and onto public television, where i...t belongs! Also: Duckmandu will demonstrate the amazing BONVICINI CONSOL ACCORDION. Powered by a vacuum cleaner!

The following Bay Area Accordion acts will play short sets before the film:
Duckmandu
Salane and Friends
Members of the Hobo Goblins with Skyler Fell on Accordion
The Inter-Nathan-al Accordion Duo
And More!
Seven years in the making, this is the first full length American documentary about the beloved but often misunderstood squeezebox: it's history and variety as well as it's effect on popular culture. Contains insightful interviews with accordion legends such as Anthony Gall-Rini, Guy Klucevsek, and Dick Contino among many others. See the original drawings for the accordion's patent of 1829 as well as the first design of the concertina. Visit an accordion museum and a factory where the instrument's many parts are created. Venture through several types of concertinas, button boxes as well as a presentation of MIDI accordions. See historic clips of Guido Diero, Art Van Damme, Lawrence Welk and Frankie Yankovic. Discover why "Lady of Spain" is associated with the accordion. See the first attempt to make a rock-n-roll accordion. And listen to where the accordion might be headed in the future.

I really have a thing about this belly dance number by Ivo Papazov & Atanas Stoev

This is an improv piece. I wish it wasn't so I could keep listening to this as a longer version, or just over and over again. For some reason this little number I find very exciting. I wish it went on and on and on so I could have sex to it or just get a euphoric high from the weird thing this song does to my brain. I want to mesh it with my being. I'm about 20 YouTube watches into doing just that. It's lovely!