Archives: Jukeboxes
An online concertina video jukebox curated by Paul Walker. Please share your favourite YouTube links of concertina players (any system or genre) with him at vjb@concertina.org.
Published on 14 Jun 2017 Rhosymedre by Vaughan Williams played by the Hawkwood Concertina Band in January 2017. Conducted by S. Ellis. Published on 14 Jun 2017 The Lost Chord by A.S. Sullivan played by the Hawkwood Concertina Band in January 2017. Conducted…
January 2017
Mairead Hurley – concertina – “Two jigs, The Geese in The Bog and Cnocán Teampaill” Another stunningly good young Irish player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68EExhy-3c
“Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines” – This recording is by a 32 piece Concertina Band gathered at a residential weekend run by Banding Together and held at Hannah’s at Seale-Hayne near Newton Abbott. The guest conductor at the 2015 weekend was John Hammonds, whose arrangement this is.
September 2016
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town on Anglo German concertina ( or is it? … the Godfather waltz???). Featuring Japanese player Toru KATO – currently well known to FaceBook readers.
June 2016
Hugo Diaz Trio – El Choclo -here’s a Tango from Uruguay that we played at Hawkwood recently (here on the Bandoneon)
January 2016
Bootle Concertina Band Parade (16/08/08)-Loyalists in Liverpool. View the concertina in a military/political setting, marching in the rain.
October 2014
Paul Walker
YOUTUBE is wonderful. At the click of a mouse, you can have front seat at an Irish session or be a guest of the Ngoqoko Cultural Group.
For Internet novices: Google YouTube; then type in the artiste’s name opposite the icon that looks like a magnifying glass.
Bootle Concertina Band Parade (16/08/08)-Loyalists in Liverpool
August 2014
Paul Walker
YOUTUBE is an Aladdin’s cave. At the click of a mouse, you can take a trip round the world; also back to the world of b/w movies.
For Internet novices: Google YouTube; then type in the artiste’s name opposite the icon that looks like a magnifying glass.
A 20 min clip on the concertina in Bolivia – fascinating footage at 12 min of the ‘tina in a street carnival. (Thanks to Martin Henshaw)
August 2015
Swaledale Squeeze 2015 links to ICA YouTube channel videos
March 2015
by Paul Walker
YOUTUBE is an Aladdin’s cave. At the click of a mouse, you can dance at an Irish house party, be transported to South Africa or visit a Labor Day concertina jamboree in Wisconsin. And all on free WiFi.
For Internet novices: Google YouTube; then type in the artiste’s name opposite the icon that looks like a magnifying glass.
First up a rousing 1945 Jo’burg anthem from Willie Gumede & His Concertina Band ・UmgobotI -taken from taken from 2011 comp, “Echoes of Africa.”
December 2014
More from the marvellous resource: YOUTUBE, by Paul Walker.
(For Internet novices: Google YouTube; then type in the artiste’s name opposite the icon that looks like a magnifying glass.)
Melodies of today and yesterday
Music Hall star Percy Honri and his daughter play “Two Lovely Black Eyes” et al.
Percy and Mary Honri (1936) British Pathé