An excerpt from a short documentary I made about the Seattle polka band, The Smilin' Scandinavians. Featuring Toby Hanson talking about the band's humble beginnings to their tour across the mid-west.
www.smilinscandinavians.com
Copyright 2005 Ian Lucero
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This sounds more like Klezmer music. Scandinavian it is not. We prefer Schottisches and waltzes. Accordions and fiddles, maybe a guitar. Polkas are pretty much for Germans and Czechs, and your particular style which I've checked out on your website while interesting and good, is NOT Scandinavian style.
oldtimeway1 2 years ago
i love Seattle!
VendPrekmurec 2 years ago
Why stop there? We want more!
peteseattle 2 years ago
I'm a huge fan. Thanks for the excerpt!
buddhalupana 4 years ago
Having had the privlege of hearing Toby play at our accordion club
in Vacaville, Ca. several years ago I purdhased his one CD that he had at
that time. I had been playing my Strasser Diatonic Button Accordion for
just 2 or 3 years and felt great when we had our end of the meeting jam session and Toby jamming with us next to me. Boy⁄! did I feel
great!
I would have liked to heard more of the video and also his polka band!
musky527 5 years ago