Here’s a blast from the past: me with purple hair, rockin’ out at Queen’s Park on Saturday May 1st, 1999:
I had no idea what was coming up next.
Yesterday marked the 9th anniversary of my playing the accordion on the street for the first time. I’ve got a longer entry about that fateful Saturday, when my [...]
Category Archives: Accordion, Instrument of the Gods
Nine Years as “The Accordion Guy”
May 2, 2008 – 11:03 am
The OTHER Accordion Guy
April 11, 2008 – 1:56 pm
Photo by Richard Lautens, Toronto Star.
I’m not the only accordion guy in town, and I’m glad to see some younger folks taking up the instrument. Here’s an excerpt from a Toronto Star article titled Squeezing Life Into His ‘Hood:
Ronen Segall uses his bright red accordion to inject life into his Huntley St. home near Bloor [...]
An Accordion Tune About Coffee’s Chemistry
April 8, 2008 – 1:08 pm
Eva sent me a note about this video, which features an accordion performance about the chemistry behind the coffee experience:
Accordions, coffee and science — three things I love!
For the curious, here are the lyrics to the coffee song in the video (the tune used is from Where Do They Make Balloons? by They Might Be [...]
Time to Rock Out on the Accordion
April 7, 2008 – 10:54 am
It’s a gorgeous spring day here in Accordion City. Now that I’m working at b5media, which is a stone’s throw away from my old busking haunt at Queen and Spadina (you can see a panoramic view of the corner here), I think I might take the ol’ office accordion (yes, I actually do keep a [...]
My Own Private “Abbey Road”
March 29, 2008 – 10:55 am
Someone I know by way of Miss Fipi Lele took the “I Walk the Line” photo of me and with a little Photoshop, gave me the Abbey Road treatment:
The Abbey Road cover features the Beatles walking in the other direction, but thanks to the power of Photoshop (well, actually Adobe Fireworks), it’s easy to flip [...]
New Accordion!
March 26, 2008 – 2:36 pm
Photo by Sean Galbraith.
A couple of days ago, Sean Galbraith was cleaning out his parents’ house and came across his mom’s old Hohner Verdi IV accordion. She told him that it had one oiwner prior to her and she believes it’s from the early 1960s. She hasn’t played it in about 15 years and suggested [...]
Austin Travel Diary, Part 21: I Walk the Line
March 15, 2008 – 9:07 am
If I ever release an album, this Johnny Cash-a-riffic photo that Morgan Johnston took of me in Austin will have to figure into the album art somehow:
Photo by Morgan Johnston.Click on the photo to see it on its original Flickr page.
Austin Travel Diary, Part 18: Annoying Stowe Boyd
March 11, 2008 – 8:25 pm
Although he Twittered the opposite, Stowe’s a real accordion fan:
Thanks to Stowe for posing for these shots!
Austin Travel Diary, Part 10: Halo 4!
March 9, 2008 – 5:39 pm
Master Chief feels the accordion love!
Happy Birthday, Hector!
January 20, 2008 – 9:34 pm
On Saturday, the Ginger Ninja and I attended my friend Hector Catre’s birthday bash. I met Hector about thirty years ago through his brother Nic, with whom I went to high school and played in a Billy Idol/Platinum Blonde cover band. Hector’s been around for all sorts of hijinks (including the Worst Date Ever), and [...]
More Accordion Photos from Tom’s Birthday / Tom and Michele’s Housewarming
January 15, 2008 – 4:49 pm
If you missed the first set of photos, they’re in this entry.
One More Accordion Convert…
I didn’t get a photo of Anneke trying out the accordion, but Michele did:
Click the photo to see it on its original Flickr page.Photo courtesy of Michele Perras.
…and Me!
We can’t forget Yours Truly, pictured below in his Accordion Happy Place…
Click the [...]
Pictures of the Day
January 15, 2008 – 2:23 pm
I attended Tom and Michele’s housewarming party on Saturday and took some pictures. Here are my favourites…
The “College Girl Dorm Room Poster” Shot
Tom did a little birthday dance number to entertain the crowd — first solo, then joined by Michele. It concluded with this smooch, which just cried out for the Robert Doisneau black-and-white treatment:
Coming [...]
The Office Accordion
December 11, 2007 – 10:05 pm
My original accordion, a Titano student model, has been through a lot, from the streets of Accordion City to Burning Man to saving my butt from a mugging in Prague (see this story for details). In spite of a few broken chord buttons, some missing key tops and a slight air leak, I can still [...]
Once Again, a Reminder About the Accordion
September 12, 2007 – 3:41 pm
The ladies love the accordion. Would a 1960’s comic lie?
Comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
Living the Dream
August 29, 2007 – 10:19 am
(This article was cross-posted to Global Nerdy.)
What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up?
According to a Workopolis poll of Canadians, more than 80% of Canadians aren’t doing the job they dreamed of doing when they were children.
Possible dream jobs.
The poll posed these two questions to adults:
What was your dream [...]
