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Saturday, 05 August, 2006
Concertina Pandemonium
(with comments)
I don't know why this album caught my attention: Concertina Pandemonium.
There are folks who enjoy this music, and the larger genre of Polka in general, but I caution you that these fans are often drinking large quantities of beer when they listen.
Not much is known about the 47th Street Concertina Club. You can listed to a short sound clip here. I did find this blurb at Chemnitzer Concertina:
In the past 30 years there are many individual concertina players, using a variety of styles, that have made names for themselves with polka bands. In the 1970s, Chet Lasik and His 47th Street Concertina Club graduated from being a "gathering of musicians at Eddie Slats' Tavern," to becoming a recording concertina band. With their numbers swelling to 32 at times, the club rooster contained names like Tadziu Kiewicz, Ed Nowak, and Stan Mikrut. They recorded several albums and performed at polka festivals throughout the country.
I had no idea Tadziu Kiewicz played with them!
- By WRC. Comment posted 05-Aug-2006 @10:12am:J-Walk: I had no idea Tadziu Kiewicz played with them!
No, no --he was the club rooster.
Clubs like these, always gotta have a club rooster. They all love to play with their roosters. And their synonyms. - By wally the duck. Comment posted 05-Aug-2006 @02:19pm:A couple more photos of Tad here:
http://www.polkamemories.com/gallery5.html
He looks like a pretty happy guy, generally. - By concertinist. Comment posted 05-Aug-2006 @04:52pm:These are Chemnitzers, usually used for oom-pah polka music up in the Midwest. Bandoneons might be concertinas, too, used for tangos in Argentina. The concertina for shanties or Irish music is usually, but not always, an Anglo, the push-pull squeezebox the pirates use (this is of course Hollywood folklore). The English concertina was first used for concert and music hall, too snooty for folk music. Now we're all low-brow.
- By . Comment posted 06-Aug-2006 @12:33am:*I had no idea Tadziu Kiewicz played with them!*
I thought that was Ron Jeremy. - By Guy. Comment posted 06-Aug-2006 @07:22pm:
- By concertinist. Comment posted 06-Aug-2006 @08:04pm:[Columbian Rock, with Squeezebox]
That's some form of piano accordion. A squeezebox, to be sure, but we concertinists disavow kinship. That Ted Mack/Lady of Spain association, you know... - By . Comment posted 07-Aug-2006 @03:13pm:The English concertina was too used for folk music from the start - people played what they could get hold of! Oh, and don't forget the Duet concertina - very popular with the Salvation Army