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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=09-Dec-2016&lang=ru&s=12480
09-Dec-2016
by Rob Howard
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| The Guardian newspaper includes articles about readers’ musical choices, and the accordion was recently featured. Excerpts: Here is this week’s playlist – songs featuring accordion picked from your suggestions. Accordions are everywhere. From Odessa in Ukraine to Odessa in Texas, from Mombasa to Mumbai, you’ll hear them on street corners and in concert halls. Our first extra-terrestrial contact will probably be with a little green man playing Bobby Shafto on a squeezebox. I thought selecting this playlist would be relatively easy, a piece of cake: I’d just pick the accordion-based songs and tunes I’ve known and loved and that I’d have nominated myself had I not been in the chair. What could be the problem? People were bound to nominate them – I’d only have to put them into a pleasing running order and write a few words about them. It turned out to be a lot more difficult than that. Some of my prospective choices did turn up; some songs turned up but with different singers. But all in all, not that many. What I did get was a tumultuous variety. A bit of Havana here, a bit of Kinshasa there. And it set me thinking. |