THE BIG SQUEEZE

Of course you already know that June is National Accordion Awareness Month. Here are a few links to help you celebrate:

MP3: Joe Derrane, Humours of Lissadell/Music in the Glen/Johnson’s

Accordion Radio: broadcasting 100% accordion music, 24 hours per day

Accordion Jokes

Accordion Links

Sunday 4 June, 5:00 PM
IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC SESSION
Mike & Molly’s [map]
105 North Market Street
Champaign, Illinois
217-355-1236
Free

Hosted by yours truly. I will not be playing the accordion.

COMING UP

Every Wednesday, 7ish: SESSION @ Bentley’s, generally with accordion
419 North Neil, Champaign, Illinois [map]

10 June: LE VENT DU NORD @ Fermilab
Batavia, Illinois

A POEM

Song

A rowan like a lipsticked girl.
Between the by-road and the main road
Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance
Stand off among the rushes.

There are the mud-flowers of dialect
And the immortelles of perfect pitch
And that moment when the bird sings very close
To the music of what happens.

—Seamus Heaney

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