Notably, the Finnish symphonic folk-metal band Turisas has always had a full-time accordionist, employing classical and polka-style sensibilities alongside a violinist.
He also plays accordion in the bands Shamalamacord, Polkacide, and Red Hot Chachkas.
It contains covers of popular Michael Nyman tracks from Letters, Riddles and Writs, Drowning by Numbers, Prospero's Books, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Draughtsman's Contract, and The Piano, as well as an original track by Janusz Wojtarowicz, leader of Motion Trio, who also arranged the works for accordion.
Born in Malatya but he was raised in Ankara, where he started to gain fame too, but the proper fame story begins with him playing Accordion at the Bora Bar in Didim.
Augie Meyers – vox organ (2), piano (3), accordion (6)
Darrell Scott – vocals, mandolin, guitar, accordion, pedal, lap steel guitar, and banjo
Knopfler's tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Richard Bennett (guitar), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Jim Cox (piano, organ, accordion), Michael McGoldrick (whistles, uilleann pipes), John McCusker (violin, cittern), Glenn Worf (bass), and Ian Thomas (drums).
John Whooley – tenor, alto, baritone and soprano saxophones, flute, vocals, throat singing, percussion (congas, clave, guiro, shaker, tambourine, woodblock, cowbell), accordion, piano, cp-70, electric piano, clav
One of the high points in Mr. Carrozza's distinguished career was a concert in The Town Hall in New York City where he performed all original accordion works by many outstanding American composers including Robert Russell Bennett, Paul Creston, Virgil Thompson and many others.
Later he toured the Midwest in a fleet of white buses with his nine performing children, "Jay Gould's Million Dollar Circus." Documents also show that he gave Lawrence Welk of TV fame one of his first jobs as an accordion player.
East Meets East is a collaborative studio album released through EMI Classics in 2003 by violinist Nigel Kennedy and the Kroke band (Jerzy Bawoł on accordion, Tomasz Kukurba on viola and Tomasz Lato on double bass), surrounded by several guest artists of international reputation such as Natacha Atlas, Mo Foster, and the Kraków Philharmonic Orchestra.
Franz Nicolay – additional vocals on "Wessex Boy", Accordion on "Rivers"
Juancho De la Espriella (born 1973), Colombian musician, interpreter of vallenato on the accordion
He did the music and appeared as an accordion street player in the film Born in East L.A. starring Cheech Marin.
Other premieres include: Paraphrase for accordion and strings orchestra composed by Branko Okmaca, Aproksimato no. 2 and Zujalica composed by Bashkim Shehu (scored for bayan and symphony orchestra) among many others.
Gary Innes is a product of the Feis movement and has had a professional career playing the accordion since 2003.
Music Master (Udo Kier): He has music-themed villain with an accordion-shaped sonic boom-generator.
Another chance meeting with film music composer Michael Kamen led to Carroll being asked to play accordion on a movie called Don Juan DeMarco, featuring Marlon Brando and Johnny Depp.
The Joel Rubin Ensemble features Kálmán Balogh on cimbalom, David Chernyavsky on violin, and Claudio Jacomucci on accordion.
She is the main piano accordion tutor at the World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland and a regular tutor at the BMus Degree in folk and traditional music at Newcastle University and The Sage Gateshead.
In 2009, Kat Flint formed the band Shipwreckers for live shows, featuring two members of London indie/rock band Revere - Nicholas Hirst (guitar; piano; accordion; percussion) and Kathleen McKie (cello) - and her former bandmate Andrew Thompson (bass; vocals; percussion).
La Cucina was an English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers".
Luciano Biondini is an Italian jazz and folk music accordion player that has appeared on the albums of various musicians, including Gabriele Mirabassi, Fratelli Mancuso, Ivano Fossati and Rabih Abou-Khalil.
Outside from reporting, he was once a Wrigley Field usher, accordion player, and played in a band called "News Hole".
His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion, travel, and women was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one featured on Fox's MadTV (season 5, episode 20).
Singing and playing both piano and accordion, she began to make a name for herself as an entertainer in London, and broadcast on radio for the first time with Jack Payne's band.
Collaborators have included Rob Sullivan (bass), Andy Sullivan (vocals), Suzanne Roberts (violin, viola), Rob Bochnik (guitar), Dylan Posa (guitar), Dudley Colley (guitar), Joss Moorkens (drums, accordion, musical saw), Bill Murphy (drums), Jim Grabowski (keyboards), Dan Sylvester (drums, percussion), Justus Roe (programmed drums), and Keith Hanlon (drums).
Mykola Lysenko (the Department of folk instruments; specialization Accordion and orchestra conducting).
Guest artists include Maria Bethânia, Lulu Santos and Carlinhos Brown, Marcelo Camelo (leader of the band Los Hermanos) and group Aviões do Forró (represented by singers Alexandre Avião and Solange Almeida, the accordion player Valcir and drummer Pedro Riquelme), and Saulo Fernandes, Sangalo's friend and current leader of the her former band Banda Eva.
Instruments characteristic of the Ottoman café style included accordion, politiki (Constantinopolitan) lyra, clarinet, kanonaki, oud, santouri, tsimbalo, or cimbalom, violin, violoncello and finger-cymbals.
The tour lineup included Mark Knopfler (guitar, vocals), Guy Fletcher (keyboards), Richard Bennett (guitar), Glenn Worf (bass), Chad Cromwell (drums), Geraint Watkins (piano, accordion), and Mike Henderson (guitar, mandolin, violin, harmonica).
Severino (Sivuca) Dias de Oliveira (26 March 1930, Itabaiana, Brazil – 14 December 2006, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) was a Brazilian accordionist and guitarist.
In 1982 Terezka performed with the renowned Egyptian Baladi singer Ahmed Adaweyah and the famed composer and piano accordion player Hussan Abou Seoud and his orchestra from Paris.
Flute (C Flute, bass Flute and Piccolo), Recorder (sopranino Recorder, soprano Recorder, tenor Recorder, bass Recorder and Paetzold contrabass Recorder in F), Clarinet (Clarinet in Bb, bass Clarinet in Bb and contrabass Clarinet in Bb), Saxophone (soprano Saxophone, alto Saxophone and Eb Tubax), Trumpet in C (doubling Flugelhorn), Trombone, Percussion, Accordion, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass, Electronics.
The band will release their second single 'Bangarang' which features vocals from Dawn Penn and accordion from Sharon Shannon in February 2014, and Penn joined Thompson and backing singer Fordham on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny (UK TV series) 2013 to perform the track.
(They are not the original vocal group the Rosebuds who recorded for George Goldner's Gee Records in the 1950s.) Its current members are Ivan Howard (vocals/guitar/ drums/ bass/keyboards/programming) and Kelly Crisp (vocals/keyboard/drums/guitar/accordion).
The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.
He has performed or recorded, most often on accordion, with various well-known artists, including Paul Simon, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, Cassandra Wilson, Hugh Masekela, Tony Bird and Gigi.
According to journalist Andy Rooney, who was a correspondent in Europe at the time, the Red Army raided the Hohner accordion and harmonica factory at Torgau at the time.
Nakayama's music is introduced as blended world accordion music, Gypsy Jazz, Musette, Tango etc. and her voice is advertised as "miracle voice" by record label.
James Fearnley - accordion, dulcimer, guitar, piano, harmonica, clarinet, banjo
Walter Micallef u l-Ħbieb is a modern folk sextet from Malta, featuring Walter Micallef on vocals and guitar, Renzo Spiteri on percussion, Jes Psaila on acoustic and electric guitar, Eric Wadge on bass, Pawlu Camilleri on harmonica and Albert Garzia on piano and accordion.
The band experimented with many different sounds with a mixture of folk and electronic sounds using many instruments which included synth, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, glockenspiel, accordion, giving them the unique “We Voyagers” sound.
Werner Thomas (born circa 1931) is an accordionist from Switzerland credited with composing a tune popularly known as the "Chicken Dance" or the "Birdie Song" while working as a restaurant musician in Davos during the early 1960s.
Greg Flesch: Organ, (Greg also plays Guitar, Accordion, and other assorted musical instruments)
Co-produced by Willis, Alison Rogers and Jamie Oldaker, guest musicians include Oldaker (drums, percussion); Sam Bush & Tim O'Brien (mandolin, vocals); Viktor Krauss, Roscoe Beck & Freebo (bass); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Walt Richmond (piano, organ); Joel Guzman (accordion); Marcia Ball, Tommy Malone, Abra Moore & Alison Rogers (vocals).
Manners's show, featuring himself on accordion and organ, mixed comedy with Western Swing and was broadcast on Los Angeles's KMPC as well as in New York City.