Dan Newton's Cafe Accordion Orchestra January 8, 2011

Dan Newton's Cafe Accordion Orchestra presents an evening of all French music for their 6th annual concert at The Cedar. This year they will be joined by guests Diane Jarvi, and Ensemble Limousin. They will also be celebrating "La Fete des Rois" with some delicious "Galette des Rois" (King's cake) before the show. Diane will lend her voice to classic Parisian chanson as well as French and Occitan folk songs. Ensemble Limousin (David Lee Echelard and M. Suzanne Cooley) play cabrette (French bagpipes), hurdy-gurdies and button accordion. Their repertoire is the dance music from the regions of Limousin, Auvergne, Berry and Bretagne. The Cafe Accordion Orchestra will explore more music of the French diaspora: Musette, Gypsy Swing, Cajun, Quebecois and Franco-Latino. They will also give the French treatment to some American popular tunes. Oh la la!