Making the Accordion Cool
Thursday, 29 October 2009 | by Pat's Picks
A Rhode Island man is on an improbable mission: to make the accordion hip. Cory Pesaturo is taking the instrument away from its “polka music and Lawrence Welk” roots and using his accordion to make jazz - and to turn heads. The Boston Globe says after two successful albums, a handful of gigs at the White House and dozens of YouTube videos, Pesaturo is well on his way to making the “world’s geekiest musical instrument” cool again.
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