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06-Apr-2018
by Rob Howard
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| Video: Foster & Allen Music Video, 40 years tour, 'We Owe It All To You'. The ever popular Irish accordion/vocals duo Foster & Allen are on tour in New Zealand from April 13th to May 6th (World Accordion Day), and their concert dates are on the poster. Foster & Allen are accordionist Mick Foster and singer/guitarist Tony Allen. They began performing together in 1975, playing ‘easy listening’ songs and tunes including some traditional Irish music. They have earned a large worldwide following, their concerts are usually sell outs, and few accordion acts anywhere are as popular with the general public. In 1979 they released the single ‘A Bunch of Thyme’ in Ireland, which became their first top-selling No. 1 single in the Irish charts, also repeating the feat in the UK. Several other hit singles and albums followed, and the duo became internationally popular. They have to date achieved album and DVD sales in excess of 22 million worldwide. Mick Foster was taught to play the accordion by Sister Agnes Murray, a nun of the Mercy Order in Ballymahon, County Longford, and by Frankie Gavigan. Main influences on his early playing were Jimmy Shand and Will Starr. In 1968 and 1970 Mick Foster won the All Ireland Piano Accordion Championship at the Fleadh Cheoil. He has stated that his accordion would be the last thing in life he would be prepared to give up. |
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