In Japan, An Accordion for Every Child

We’re busy moving into a new place, so “MP3 Monday” will be postponed until later in the week. In the meantime, I’ll share a fun video from Accordeonactueel which, as best I can tell, is a Dutch accordion news site. Among the videos they’ve posted is this one featuring a series of Japanese childrens’ orchestras. (It could be the same one, just with different combinations of musicians.) But these are no ordinary orchestras — they’re made up almost entirely of accordions and melodicas. Why don’t we see groups like this in the US?

2 Comments:

  1. moving?!
    AAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!

    You have all my sympathys, I’ve had to do it myself a few times since the wife and I married 32 some yrs ago and every. single. time. I swear I will make her shoot me before I go thru it again :P

    Good luck and good move – I shall kepp you the wife and the new daughter in my prayers till you’re all resettled and back in some working groove :)
    Accordionly yours
    SD

  2. Thanks for the sympathy, John. Fortunately, the accordions were the first thing we moved so we had good music at our new home from the start. :-)