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The Cajun accordion is generally defined as a single-row diatonic accordion, as compared to multiple-row instruments commonly used in Irish, Italian, polka, and other styles of music. The Cajun accordion has four reed ranks , i.e., four reeds for each melody button, and each reed bank is controlled by a corresponding stop or knob on the top of ...
Diatonic button accordion (German make, early 20th century) The term squeezebox (also squeeze box, squeeze-box) is a colloquial expression referring to any musical instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina.
Together they play fiddle, guitar, assorted squeezebox instruments, a stomp box and both sing. An album called simply Tunes came out in summer 2005 and another, Songs, followed in October of the same year. Their fifth album, Vagabond, was released in 2008. The Works was released on 11 July 2011. It's an album of re-recorded tracks from their 5 ...
Born in Cabra, Dublin, [6] Masterson grew up in a musical family, and learned to play the pipes and other instruments at an early age. He was encouraged by his parents Frances and Jim, who both played traditional music, and by his uncle Jimmy O'Reilly, a squeezebox player from Multyfarnham, County Westmeath. [7]
This is a list of Irish musicians and musical groups. Jazz and blues. Josephine Alexandra Mitchell (1903–1995) was Ireland's first female saxophonist.
Keane emigrated to New York City in 1967 [2] to play music in the Irish music scene there, part of the American folk music revival.In 1979, Keane moved to Nova Scotia [2] and began playing with Canadian folk trio Ryan's Fancy, contributing accordion to two songs on their 1979 album A Time With Ryan's Fancy [3] (credited as "James 'Skip' Keane").
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In 2020, Kíla recorded music for the 2019 film Arracht (for which they won an IFTA) [7] and the 2020 film Wolfwalkers. Arracht was nominated for 11 IFTA awards and won two, with Kíla awarded 'Best Original Score'. During the two COVID-19 lockdowns, the band performed six online concerts in a Wolfwalker-themed Saint Patrick's Day broadcast.