Piano Accordion Player (Street Busking)

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!

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• Street
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• Nick
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• Shropshire
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• Stretton
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• Summerfest

[bbcisrubbish]

Wonderful. Did those watching on line notice how many people passing by stopped to admire and listen to the music?

[southerncrescent1401]

I have enjoyed your clip. I have two accordians that now suffer from "laryngitis" due to playing outdoors in the humid mountains of East Tennessee (United States). I would like to get an accordian like yours but I cannot seem to focus on the name of your accordian.There are no accordian dealers in my area where I can go and try one out before buying. I'm afraid to buy one from the internet before playing it. But if I could find one like yours I would try getting it. Thanks for posting. Joe

[nosztalgia1]

I enjoyed! Congratulations!

Best wishes, Zsuzsi from Hungary.

[BigRedpg51]

Very nice Nick! I've been toying with the idea of possibly doing street busking one day. How do you go about it? Do you need a license? How are you received by the public........do they like the music, or do they seem bothered by it?

Do people actually contribute to the kitty........or do they just listen without contributing?

[BigRedpg51]

Very nice Nick! I've been toying with the idea of possibly doing street busking one day. How do you go about it? Do you need a license? How are you received by the public........do they like the music, or do they seem bothered by it?

Do people actually contribute to the kitty........or do they just listen without contributing?

[darekziom5]

amazing plays .I can listen to this music for hours greet

[gerogero2006]

Grand! Merveilleux, Beau. Bravo! À propos de cet instrument de musique, l'accordéon, votre accordéon est vraiment merveilleux, stupenda. Permettez-moi, s'il vous plaît, de vous montrer que les Brésiliens et les Argentins font avec cet instrument unique et merveilleux. Si vous voulez voir, cherchez s'il vous plaît ces 3 vidéos:

1 - Marcelo e Voninho

2 - Tio Mederico- Dvd Os Serranos 40 anos- Sempre Gaúchos

3 - CHANGO SPASIUK EN FORMOSA KILOMETRO 11 -10/10/2009 (4)

[pickleby]

this is great! we seem to have a lot in common, Im just starting out on the accordion and also have a passion for mechanical music!

keep up the great playing!

[MemoriesofaDestiny]

Haha I love your sound! The love the spirit of the music. Don't ever stop!! It's people like you that keep the world from mixing. In a good way.