| Friday Sep 12, 2014 8:30 PM - Saturday Sep 13, 2014 12:30 AM | CA$10.00 - CA$12.50 |
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7th Annual Accordion Noir Festival: Accordion Speakeasy
Jack Garton (Maria in the Shower) hosts the Accordion Speakeasy, a celebration of the fringey underground roots of alternative accordion culture in Vancouver, featuring homegrown klezmer great Geoff Berner, alongside the festival debut of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Walt McClements, a.k.a. Lonesome Leash from New Orleans, and local east-side favorites Orkestar Slivovica. The squeezebox provocation is served up with a deep swig of Vancouver's most curiously wonderful burlesque, comedy and variety performers, who will appear throughout the festival as part of Dr. Jack's Jackpot of Cabaret Curios.
Hailed by the Globe and Mail as "The Avenging Angel of klezmer", musician and author Geoff Berner has earned his notoriety with live shows that tend to devolve into crazed, chaotic, drunken dancing and psychotic laughter. He has built a sizable cult following through extensive touring, converting international audiences to his sometimes dirty, often political approach to traditional Jewish Music. His latest offering is Festival Man, a darkly hilarious novel chronicling the underbelly of the Canadian folk festival circuit.
Splitting his time between New Orleans and Los Angeles, Lonesome Leash is quickly earning a following with a mesmerizing stage show, which sees McClements multi-tasking between sinuous accordion, lush feedback effects, drum loops and brass flourishes. A lean and gorgeously messy solo affair, Lonesome Leash trades in the heavy-breathing ecstatic joy and fatalistic romanticism that pervades New Orleans, but translates to any location and into any language.
Orkestar Slivovica brings the fabulous circle folk dances that turn everywhere they go into a Balkan wedding party. With tunes from Vancouver, Serbia, Macedonia, India and other distant lands, this collective of East-Vancouver musicians plays as if they'd been embalmed in plum brandy. They will be performing with a special guest accordionist (TBA) for this event.
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LocationThe Russian Hall (View)
600 Campbell Ave
Vancouver, BC V6A 3K6
Canada
Categories
| Minimum Age: 19 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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