Vesko Eshkenazi (violin)
Veronika Todorova (accordion)
Philharmonic orchestra of the city of Pleven, Bulgaria
(open air concert; time offset: 55:15)

Queen of the Night (Mozart)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury)

Introducing the first one, the violinist says he asked for this arrangement as he couldn't sing an air for a soprano himself, and if he would, the audience wouldn't want to hear it.
He introduces the second one as a bow before an eternal part of the World of Music.

<https://youtu.be/ktAatpkBqG8?t=3315>

#Accordion
#FridayMusic

Happy #EarthDay !

https://musicshop.themadmaggies.com/track/heaven-on-this-earth

HEAVEN ON THIS EARTH 🌎

"Supposin' there's no
home on high, no
great beyond up in the sky
no hereafter after all

Well then I want
this world to be
a paradise, a place of peace
I want heaven on this earth"

#theMadMaggies #Accordion
#Guitar #Bass #Drums
#Trombone #Tuba #Trumpet #Sax #Music #WomenComposers
#OriginalMusic

Looking at “Barbie Girl” (BG hereinafter) as the foreman of our morris side wants to write a new dance and it’ll need a tune… and this would fit on our instruments nicely and get the public’s attention.
By my reckoning BG has four parts. Three of those parts are eight bars each, in line with “standard form”… but the first one is 18 bars (well, 9 bars with different first/second time through endings) and includes the necessary run up for the start of the second part to feel right.
Because the run up to the B music can’t be jemmied into the end of the C or D music, we can’t just use the A music as an intro then loop the other parts (my first thought).
Do any of you internet folkies have any bright ideas to tweak BG so the A music is a multiple of 8 bars (and don’t say play it for 9x8 =72 bars, that’s much to much of it!)?
Sheet music here, (though we’d play it in G) https://sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/sheetjpg/56840.jpg

Alternatively, any suggestions for upbeat, attention grabbing, well know pop similar to BG that fits nicely into an octave and a half, is in 8 or 16 bar chunks, and isn’t beset with accidents or key changes?

#Melodeon #Accordion #FolkLife #MorrisDancing

Katy Maroue, 47, carries an accordion as she collects belongings from the rubble of her house, which she says was damaged by an Israeli strike, after returning from displacement in Sidon to gather her belongings, in Zrarieh, Lebanon, April 19. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

#photography
#Lebanon
#Beirut
#music
#accordion
#women

🎶 ☠️ 💛 Poetic Rock!

We go “round and round and round” with each other on this water-covered rock in space.

https://youtu.be/AWraHWUgXJw

#theMadMaggies #Accordion
#Guitar #Bass
#Synths #OriginalMusic #Music

This week‘s episode of @accordionnoir is a fantasy throwback to what our show would’ve sounded like if we had started when #Vancouver #CoopRadio went on the air with the playlist of all 🪗 songs from 1974 or before

Including hits from Gordon Lightfoot, and Emerson Lake and Palmer, with tunes from South Africa, Colombia, and others in styles from around the world

A lot like our show today, but barely predating the 1980s #TheyMightBeGiants #WeirdAl #accordion revival
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2026-04-15-co-op-radios-fifty-second-birthday-time-machine/ 🌍