June is a fine time to hear the dulcet and accordions and more! The Famous Accordion Orchestra 2012 World tour of Brooklyn Gardens continues this Saturday, June 2, at the Local Produce Festival in Park Slope. At 2:PM accordionist Bob Goldberg will be playing with clarinetist Adrian Mira and percussionist Greg Burrows at the President Street Garden, President Street and Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY.
Bob will be joined by students from PS 295 for a singalong of favorite tunes, courtesy of the Brooklyn Conservatory Music Partners program. Other appearances include:
Friday June 8, 7:30 PM Dixon Place for monthly romp.
The Lounge at Dixon Place
161 a Chrystie Street
Manhattan
Saturday, June 9, 3:00 PM
Famous Accordion Orchestra
at the Jane Bailey Memorial Garden
327-329 Greene Ave
bet. Franklin & Classon Aves
The Famous Accordion Orchestra, led by composer/accordionist Bob Goldberg bridges the traditional and the post-modern. The Orchestra is flexible in size and makeup, and has appeared as a duo, trio, quartet, and larger ensemble. Their repertoire ranges from Stephen Foster, Rossini, Bach, Offenbach, Guy Klucevsek, Lars Hollmer, Paolo Conte, Duke Ellington and Kraftwerk, waltzes, marches, tangos and sound environments.
The core group consists of Bob Goldberg, with founding members Genevieve Leloup and Mark Nathanson, along with Melissa Elledge and Rachel Swaner (both veterans of Angels and Accordions and members of Main Squeeze Orchestra) and the rhythm section of Greg Burrows on drums and Joe “Tuba” Keady on tuba. As a large group, the Orchestra has performed site-specific works such as “Accordion Forest/Neighborhood Suite”, at Make Music New York 2009, and forms the musical core of “Angels and Accordions”, an annual event at Brooklyn’s Green-wood Cemetery, as well as private parties and events.
The Famous Accordion Orchestra’s 2012 World Tour of Brooklyn is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
