Down south in southern Texas or Mexico, TexMex still rules, and good accordionists provoke the young ladies to the Elvis-like frenzies and regularly even today fill 50,000 person arenas!
I can attest to that. I often do 1 hour workshops for band students at high schools in my area. I co ordinate this with the music director of the school and usually do 1 or 2 per school ( always band/orchestra students ). I get a very positive feedback from the students. Most of whom have never seen and accordion/accordionist in person before. They are full of questions about the accordion and show real interest in the instrument. I think it's productive both for the students ( and me).Fortunately, the people here in the US who have a negative, or inherited bias towards the accordion are dying out. Everyone else is intrigued and intetested.
We spoke about your experiences with this a couple times... I think it would be an amazing video story to make and share with the world... next time you do one, let me know and if I can make it down, we'll make it in to a mini documentary video for your YouTube channel.I often do 1 hour workshops for band students at high schools in my area. I co ordinate this with the music director of the school and usually do 1 or 2 per school
A heck of a lot of music, musicians and genres have suffered under the doctrine of "If it ain't commercial - ignore it."
When success is measured only in monetary terms and popularity dictated by mass advertising and promotion, the good gets stifled under the dross.
this is not about accordion, but I agree with you. Actually, in the big city, lots of rich people or who has extraordinary ability, they choose to stay in China, not go other western developed countries, as lots of things in there are really sucks, including not limited to medical system, education, service, traffic, online things. Also, for the child education, after immigrate to western country, most of Chinese children feel the school is too easy here, some students' grade are bad so they cannot go to the tier 1 or 2 university in China, but after immigration, it is easy for them to go to famous university. Not want to offence, but it is the truth based on my experience.I'll just say this: a Chinese migrant, father of several primary school aged kids, running a very successful recycling business here in Australia, a few years ago, sent all his kids to live with his relatives back in China because he thought our schools and education system here were crap. I had to agree with him!
My impressions entirely also!Not want to offence, but it is the truth based on my experience.
Down south in southern Texas or Mexico, TexMex still rules, and good accordionists provoke the young ladies to the Elvis-like frenzies and regularly even today fill 50,000 person arenas!
In general, there is a big influx of ladies (mostly really good looking!) in all regions of the accordion styles, and I think that each alone is going to do more for the accordion than 10 virtuosos for the image of the accordion!Good TexMex accordionists are young ladies these days, and the more the better.