balfolk

I came across this one recently and it really grabbed me so I did this recording of it last night. The piece is dedicated to Belgian farmer Jacques Covemaeker, who died while plowing a field in 1983 after striking a WWI land mine, making him last known victim of the "Great War."

After avoiding the inevitable, I’ve finally split off a spanking new YouTube channel to house just my Tradfolk recordings (as opposed to all the non-traditional things I post on my main channel). It will be a mix of Irish, English, French, Flemish, Scottish, Breton, Québécois, Scandinavian...

The European folk / dance traditions were what attracted me to the box in general and to smaller boxes in particular. Cyrille is a wonderful balfolk player and composer and I captured this take of my own improvised version of his tune last night. Apologies for the sour accordion face. Am also...

Hartwin Dhoore is a Belgian gent currently living in Estonia who I find so musically inspiring. Early on, he switched from chromatic to diatonic and is self-taught. He is a great player and an excellent composer of trad folk / neo-trad tunes. Here is my rough attempt to do one of his tunes...

Andy is such an amazing musician. I've only seen informal clips of him playing this tune posted by others (and no one is credited as the writer so I assume it is one of his originals). He plays it on a biggish 2.5 row diatonic, which is still easily 6-7 lbs lighter than my CBA. I knew the...