Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

Linus Akesson’s “Commodordion” — an electronic accordion made with two Commodore 64 computers and floppy disks for bellows!

Leave it to Linus Akesson, 8-bit music maker extraordinaire and creator of other retrofitted instruments such as the  Sixtyforgan and Qwertuoso to…

2 years ago

Playing accordion at ng-conf’s first karaoke night

Here’s a photo of Yours Truly playing AC/DC’s You Shook Me All Night Long at the first karaoke night for…

2 years ago

If you go out drinking the night before and call in sick the next day…

And hey, you have even less of an excuse if you can work from home.

2 years ago

I’ll be playing at Clearwater’s Ukulele Fest in the District on Saturday, April 23rd!

Two Saturdays from now, I’ll be the one of the distinctly non-ukelele players at the Ukulele Fest in the District,…

3 years ago

Four years ago today…

Four years ago today, I was flying into Washington, DC to both attend and give presentations at RWDevCon, a conference…

3 years ago

What happened with the accordion on Saturday night

To celebrate our seventh anniversary, we took a a Thursday-to-Sunday road trip to St. Augustine. We had a great time,…

3 years ago

Playing accordion at the Glazer Children’s Museum Birthday Bash (September 25, 2021)

This was a fun one: The Glazer Children’s Museum celebrated its 11th birthday with a big party at Curtis Hixon…

3 years ago