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20-Jun-2014
‘14 Years Ago’: Irish and French Music in Japan in June 2000by Rob Howard |
 The Accordions Worldwide news for the week ending June 16th 2000 included two articles from Japan. The first was about Irish music and second about French music, demonstrating how national musical genres can travel to literally the other side of the world and be adopted elsewhere. The world is becoming a smaller place! ‘Viva-Accordion’ and ‘Chanson Evening’ – Japan Contributed by Toru Katou The annual ‘Viva-Accordion’ concert was held in Matsubara, Osaka Prefecture recently. Over 190 accordionists joined together to play Irish traditional dance tunes (danced by Jack and Rose in the movie ‘Titanic’) such as The Blarney Pilgrim, John Ryan's Polka, Kesh Jig and Drowsie Maggie. Guest performers were Tex-Mex band ‘Conjunt-J’, featuring diatonic accordionist Kenji Katsube. This event, organized by the All-Kansai Accordion Association (AAA) is one of the largest accordion events in Western Japan. On June 7th French accordionist Patrick Nugier and Tetsuya Kuwayama (Japan) performed at a ‘Chanson Evening’ at Astel Plaza, Hiroshima, organized by the Japan-France Association. Patrick played and sang (both in French and Japanese) a variety of pieces including Sous Le Ciel de Paris, My Way, Love is Blue, Vie Violence, and Tango Pour Claude (instrumental). Patrick has been living in Japan for over ten years and plays the accordion on commercial television broadcasts. |