Results for "Accordion & Voice"

Juliet Varnedoe

Born: August 22

New York based musical artist Juliet Varnedoe writes and produces innovative Cajun French songs that reflect her pioneering, visionary spirit. She draws from her Louisiana roots to combine Acadian traditional folk songs, electronic French pop, and New Orleans jazz traditions. 

Her years of performance in New York cabaret clubs and venues such as Don't Tell Mama, the Deluxe, Montauk Club, and Pete's Candy Store, solidifies her stage persona as a Cajun French chanteuse - a unique America jazz singer sharing the joie de vivre of the Cajun people. 

Accordion & Voice

By Pauline Oliveros

Label: Important Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Horse Sings from Cloud; Rattlesnake Mountain.

Pauline Oliveros: Accordion & Voice

by Karl Ackermann
October 10, 2014

It's understandable if Pauline Oliveros is not a top-of-mind name, even after more than five decades in music. The eighty-two year old composer has been far-removed from the mainstream as a pioneer in the subculture of experimental electronic music and composition since the 1960s and her acoustic instrument of choice is the accordion. Yet her résumé ...