People ask how I keep going day after day writing OTBKB but all it takes are the melifluous strains of the Famous Accordian Orchestra practicing in the front yard of Bob Goldberg’s apartment building on Third Street to send me running home to my computer.

Three members of the group were playing a nostalgic dirge-like melody that infused me with a sense of small village life in Eastern Europe.

Goldberg told me they were practicing a traditional Serbian tune called Kumen field (meaning carnation) that they will be playing on Monday as Part of Make Music New York.

The Famous Accordion Orchestra (plus multitudes of additional accordions) will present a massive accordion event, open to all squeezers and free to the general public!

Starting at 6:00, Soloists and groups of accordions will fill JJ Byrne Park to create “Accordion Forest 2”, in which listeners are invited to stroll around the park and here a mind-blowing collage of accordion styles.

At 6:30 or so, the players will collect at the park’s central square to perform “Square Dance at the Old Stone House”, a site-specific piece for as many accordions as are available,

Monday, June 21, 2010
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Old Stone House/JJ Byrne Park
3rd Street and 5th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

Accordionists are invited to participate in “Accordion Forest 2/Square Dance” a musical environment directed by Bob Goldberg. Accordion Forest 2 is a collage in which each player (or small group) performs from his/her/their personal repertoire. Square Dance creates an intense sustained texture as it moves around the Park’s central square.  Non-accordionists are invited to participate, provided their instrument can be heard along with accordions without amplification.

How To Join
For information, email famousaccordions@earthlink.net, identify yourself and describe what you do as an accordionist. Bob Goldberg (director of the Famous Accordion Orchestra) will contact you with instructions.