Gogol Bordello played its jubilant gypsy punk for a sold-out crowd at the Ogden Theatre on Sunday night. The band, led by pied-piper Eugene Hutz, has been mixing accordion, violin and multi-ethnic ...
If Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what’s wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in ...
Gypsy Jazz or Manouche was the invention of Django Reinhardt whose sound came from old gypsy tunes played with a swing rhythm. During the inter-war years, Django heard Louis Armstrong and Duke ...
When the Hot Club of Reading plays a Berks Jazz Fest concert Thursday night at the WCR Center for the Arts, it will welcome as a special guest a French accordion virtuoso who 20 years ago crossed the ...