Accordionists
This Detroit Accordionist is available to make your occasion a special memory whether you need a professional musician to play a strolling accordion or you want to dance to the sound of a four-piece band. All of his music is played live.
This Accordionist was born in Chicago and, since she was 14, has been researching, performing and preserving Slavic folk music. She has traveled to Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics and Romania extensively to research folk music, record native artists, collaborate with other musicians and give concert tours.One of her passions is introducing children to Slavic folk music. She has been a singing teacher for the dance schools of the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America, and she was an outreach artist with the famous Old Town School of Folk Music’s Global Roots program.
This Accordionist is a Minnesota-based musician who specializes in international music.He studied at the University of Minnesota and found his beginnings as a classical percussionist while performing with the University of Minnesota Orchestra, Minneapolis Civic Orchestra, and the Bloomington Symphony.He later came into his own as a freelance accordionist who specializes in ethnic music, playing various types of traditional European and American music.
This Accordionist from Chicago began his studies of music at the age of 10. He was under the tutelage of a world renowned composer, arranger, and performer, Maestro Vincent Geraci. At the age of 17, Maestro Vincent Geraci asked him if he wanted to take over a schedule of 75 accordion students, which he accepted with much enthusiasm.During this period he was also playing the accordion with different bands throughout the metropolitan area. At the age of 20 he landed a great opportunity to join a well known quintet, The Melowaires. At this point in time, The Melowaires signed a contract with the famous booking agency, MCA (music corporation of America).
This Accordionist from Atlanta is a one-man-band and plays accordion and synthesized accordion, performing songs from the 1900′s to present time, as well as international music. He has performed at numerous venues throughout Atlanta, from country clubs, to the Ritz Carlton Buckhead, to the Ms Georgia Senior America Pageant.Recently, this accordionist performed in Fiddler on the Roof at Jewish Theatre of the South and in the Sewanee Summer Music Festival at University Of The South, Sewanee, Tenn. and the Intercontinental Hotel in Atlanta, Ga.