Accordion Player Entertains a Herd of Walruses in the Arctic Ocean

August 1st 2021
Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor Accordion USA News
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Video: Walruses are mesmerized by accordionist in the middle of the Arctic

You can’t make these things up! An accordionist performed a Russian Waltz while sitting on the side of his sailboat. A group of walruses gathered near the boat, barking and moving up and down to the music. They were entranced by the accordion music! This unusual event was recorded near the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago in Arctic Ocean north of Russia.

Accordionist Alexander Bogdanov sat on the edge of his boat in the middle of the freezing ocean in the Arctic Circle playing “ Eugen Doga’s Waltz”, originally produced for the 1970s Soviet film “My Sweet and Tender Beast”

Walruses are huge fans of singing, making sounds like clicks and bells while underwater. As he finishes, his friends laugh and applaud the bizarre scene, and they begin to sail off from the spot where the creatures had gathered.

Accordions are popular with all kinds of species!