I no longer live in Accordion City’s Queen/Spadina neighbourhood and therefore don’t play there very often anymore. Luckily that doesn’t mean that they’re lacking for the accordion: there was a guy playing a fine little red number there earlier this afternoon:

Squeeze on, good sir!

Joey deVilla

View Comments

  • That looks like my second Accordion, from 1968! I long for it like orson wells longed for Rosebud.
    Is the new boxman busker entertaining? does he play rock and roll like you, Joey?

  • On a complete tangent, I saw Bassoon Guy, Jeff Burke, busking on Church St. during the festivities on Sunday.
    He's upped the ante though.
    He has a foot pedal sampler that he'll play the bass line into and then play it back in real time and accompany.
    At first I couldn't figure out what he was doing when I heard 2 notes at the same time.
    I thought maybe the Bassoon had a drone like a bagpipe or chords like an accordion [Yeah. I am stoopid. I know. Thanks.] and asked how the hell he was doing it.
    It was pretty cool.
    He does have a request list which includes the standard rock favorites all the way to Thelonious Monk which is, quite simply, insane...
    C

Share
Published by
Joey deVilla
Tags: buskingPhoto

Recent Posts

23rd blogaversary!

I’ve been at this “blogging” thing since the start of November 2001, which makes this…

8 hours ago

U.S. Election post #11: RFK Jr. wants to protect our precious bodily fluids

At his recent Madison Square Garden rally — yup, the grievance-fest where they let their racism…

9 hours ago

U.S. Election post #10: The Alt-Right Playbook

Here’s a set of videos produced in the first (and hopefully last) Trump era that…

1 day ago

U.S. Election post #9: Don’t let them kill the CHIPS Act

Of all the dunderheaded things the Republican party will do should Trump win the election…

2 days ago