Street Entertaining with Piano Accordion in the beautiful Shropshire town of Church Stretton (England) as part of the Summerfest 2009 event, seen here alongside my vintage car, a 1928 Morris Garages 'Super Sports'.

Meanwhile lots of other events and attractions were dotted throughout the town, including two of my mechanical organs. We were all rather busy with entertaining to do much filming on the day, but my father did capture a few minutes of my accordion playing which I've compiled into this video.

The accordion I'm playing is an Italian Crucianelli 120-bass; as well the lovely traditional musette sound from the internal hand-made reeds, now has a brand new MIDI and Mic system fitted. Used here with an amplifer just to give me some extra volume for street playing, I can also use the MIDI output signal to give hundreds of different sounds synthesised in real time with an electronic expander, or even play real pipes and percussion on a full size mechanical concert organ - please see my other videos!


Pieces played here were as follows...

Reine de Musette
Under the Bridges of Paris
Down on Jollity Farm
Nellie the Elephant
Goodnight Sweetheart
Beer Barrel Polka
Daisy Daisy
The Miner's Dream of Home

Hope you enjoy listening as much as I do playing! (less info)