The Brooklyn Accordion Club presents Jeremiah McLane on Sunday, November 1, 2020 from 2-3:PM (EDT) via Zoom. Jeremiah will present “La Cadence in French Traditional Dance Tunes”

‘La Cadence’ is a term used by french traditional dance musicians that has a similar sense to the English word groove. In this workshop you will learn some tunes from Central and Northwest France and look at how accordionists supply the groove for different types of tunes including the bourrée, mazurka, schottishe, and gavotte.

Jeremiah McLane is a composer, accordionist, pianist and teacher with a diverse musical background including blues, jazz, Celtic, Québécois, French and other roots influenced music. He has a Master’s Degree in Contemporary Improvisation from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

He has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, in bands such as Cassotto Duo, The Clayfoot Strutters, Nightingale, Allos Musica, Le Bon Vent, Wheezer & Squeezer, and Triton. In 2005 he started the Floating Bridge Music School, which is devoted to teaching traditional music from the British Isles, Quebec and Northern Europe, and North America, all genres that have influenced the music of his native New England. 

The Montpelier Times-Argus music critic Art Edelstein named Jeremiah musician of the year for 2016, citing his contributions in teaching, recording and performing is his various configurations. Since 1990 Jeremiah has released over thirty recordings, including three CDs in the past year alone: a solo project entitled The Grinding Stone; Gnossienne with Chicago-based Allos Musica; and most recently The Wind Among the Reeds with bagpiper Timothy Cummings, which won the Montpelier’s Times-Argus Vermont album of the year award for 2016. His second solo recording Smile When You’re Ready, was nominated by National Public Radio in their “favorite picks”, and his fifth release Hummingbird, with Ruthie Dornfeld, received the French music magazine “Trad Mag” Bravo award, as did Goodnight Marc Chagall with Le Bon Vent.

Jeremiah has composed music for theatre and film, including Sam Shepard’s A Lie Of The Mind, and been awarded the Ontario Center For The Performing Arts “Meet The Composer” Award, and the Vermont Council On The Arts “Creation Of New Work” grant. He has served on the faculty of the Sate University of New York in Plattsburgh, New York and currently teaches the Summit School for Traditional Music in Montpelier, Vermont and at the Upper valley Music Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. He also teaches regularly at summer music programs throughout the United States including Ashokan, Centrum’s American Festival of Fiddle Tunes, Swananoah, Maine Fiddle Camp, Lark in the Morning, John C. Campbell Folk School, Pinewoods, Bay Area CDSS Camps, and many others.

For further information: brooklynaccordionclub@gmail.com