Word: accordion
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...chatting with the audience and using eyeliner to draw unibrows, goatees, and eyeglasses on the most unsuspecting spectators. “Fusilli the Enforcer,” Don Carbonara’s bodyguard, serenades us with “Amore” and other North End favorites on his accordion. Then, in the midst of enjoying our cheese ravioli, the lights dim and the star-crossed lovers Toni Marinara and Ditalina Carbonara enter. The couple dances palmer-kiss style until, gasp! Toni mysteriously collapses. We are informed that Toni has kicked the bucket—with some help...
...pace was moved up a gear again for the rest of the evening with a few brief ballads in between to cool the audience down. The talent of the fiddlers combined with an accordion, a guitar and a bouzouki managed to achieve an almost inhuman speed in most of their jigs, which made this a dynamic performance...
...with Altan, “the hottest group in the Celtic realm these days,” according to the Boston Globe. The Irish sextet features fiddler/vocalist Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh and the acclaimed rhythm section of Dáithí Sproule on guitar, Dermot Byrne on accordion and Ciarán Curran on bouzouki. Altan has been around since the eighties and is consistently rated among the most exciting groups in all of Irish music. Tickets $35, $30, $25. 8 p.m. Sanders Theater, 45 Quincy Street...
...moment in the Super Bowl telecast wasn't Janet Jackson's boob boo-boo. It was a commercial for Pepsi-Cola called Crossroads. In the spot it was 1953, and a young Jimi Hendrix was trying to choose between Coke and Pepsi-and, simultaneously, between an accordion and a guitar. You know which drink he picked, and you know which instrument he picked up. If you've got modern blood in your veins-and if, like me, you can remember as if it were yesterday the first time you heard the thrilling six notes that start...
Jerry McNamara sits on a ledge set into the platform wall, an accordion resting on his lap and a gray tweed hat hiding his downward-cast eyes from the pedestrian traffic. His fingers fly over the keys of his instrument as he embellishes a medley of holiday carols, tapping his foot beside a case scattered with coins and bills...