Video: Cafe Accordion Live Mix 2021

Cafe Accordion performs on December 8, 2022 from 7 to 8:30 PM EST at
Crooners Supper Club
6161 Highway 65 NE, Minneapolis, MN 55432
763-571-9020

Cafe Accordion puts their own special spin on holiday classics from many lands. Dan Newton (accordion, vocals), Brian Barnes (guitar, vocals), Eric Mohring (mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Erik Lillestol (bass, vocals), Joe Steinger , (percussioin), Elizabeth Rowan (percussion). Dan Newton’s Cafe Accordion Orchestra (CAO) performs an eclectic mix full of French flare, Latin heat and Bohemian attitude. The heart of the CAO repertoire is the passionate sound of the French valse musette.

The group complements the musettes with swing, ballads, tangos, cha chas, rumbas, and cumbias to create a wonderfully varied show. They inject their music with good humor and expressive abandon. Their high level of musicianship and passion for performance makes them an entertaining concert act as well as a great dance band. CAO has been delighting audiences and dancers alike since 1995. They have appeared in New York at the Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing series, the International Akkordeon Festival in Vienna, Austria, the Minnesota State Fair, as well as festivals, theaters and dance halls across the United States.

Upcoming performances include:
Thursday, December 1 @ 7:PM: Pat Donohue & Prairie All Stars @ Crooners, Fridley
Join Pat and the gang for An All Star Christmas. Fresh takes on old holiday favorites and a few new tunes to boot!
Friday, December 2 @ 5:PM: Dan, Tom Wells & Dean Magraw @ Friends Holiday Sale
Dan, Dean and Tom play for an hour, you get some Christmas shopping done while supporting local artists and the Friends School. The Friends Holiday Sale is held at the Friends School on 1365 Englewood Ave, St Paul.

Saturday, December 3 @ 10:AM: McNordiques @ Swedish Institute, Mpls
McNordiques play during the Julmarknad Handcraft Market and Festival at the beautiful Swedish Institute on 2600 Park Ave, Mpls.

Sunday, December 4 @ 6 – 8:PM: Ben Cook-Feltz Holiday Shindig @ KJs Hideaway, St Paul
Dan joins the fun as Ben and his friends celebrate the season in St Paul!


“The recent boom in world music has brought a lot of new sounds to U.S. listeners’ ears. But the Café Accordion Orchestra plays the kind of gentle, enticing, low-volume world music that Americans already knew about in the Kennedy era: waltzes, French Café sounds, bossa novas, sambas and tangos.”
— Minneapolis Star Tribune

For further information: daddysqueezenewton@gmail.com