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Interview with WCAX
The accordion is enjoying a comeback. The instrument is gaining in popularity and more youngsters are taking lessons. Steve Bottari sets the stage with Jeremiah McLane, a composer and teacher in southern Vermont and master of all things accordion.
Watch the video: http://www.wcax.com/story/24087130/vermont-composter-and-teacher-jeremiah-mclane-talks-accordion
Strafford’s Accordion Playing Legend
When former Vermonter and Pulitzer prize winning author Annie Proulx wrote “Accordion Crimes,” it was because she heard in that instrument the essence of immigrant America. Here was an instrument with as many varieties of song as there were nationalities crowding the American shores.
The accordion, it turns out, can do a lot more than play polkas. The instrument, which comes in many varieities, has been central to the traditional music of many lands; in the hands of a master player, its possibilities are almost endless.
Luckily for central Vermont, such a master player does live here among us. Jeremiah McLane of Strafford Read More…