Monday, 1 July 2019

Under One Sun Trio


Daniel Polletta welcomes Jamey Haddad, along with band members Billy Drewes and Michael Ward-Bergeman to the Idea Center At Playhouse Square studios in Cleveland, OH.

Monday, 12 November 2018

Amazing Grace


Amazing Grace at the inaugural New Orleans Accordion Festival, November 3, 2018.
Mark "Tuba" Smith - sousaphone and vocal
Kenneth Terry - trumpet
Malcolm Morris - bass drum
Michael Ward-Bergeman - accordion

Tuesday, 6 November 2018

Howard's Uvula

Titty Pink - Howard's Uvula from herb n renewal on Vimeo.

Lick the Frog. "Howard's Uvula" is from the album "Magic Cookie" by Titty Pink, featuring vocals by Yulene Velasquez and original compositions by MJWB. Inspired by a magic cookie and a Kambo ceremony that left Howard's uvula miraculously and permanently elongated. Images were created by Herb n Renewal using Studio Artist (Synthetik) and FCPX.

Friday, 18 May 2018

Hyper-Accordion Loops I

Melodic, Harmonic, Rhythmic Hyper-Accordion Loops. All sounds created by an acoustic accordion transformed by various sorts of digital signal processing.

Saturday, 2 September 2017

Oh Matey

Under One Sun performs Billy Drewes' Oh Matey at Clonick Studios, Oberlin, OH. 

Friday, 4 March 2016

St. James Infirmary Blues with Yo-Yo Ma, Rhiannon Giddens and the Silk Road Ensemble


This arrangement/performance appears on the Grammy Award Winning album Sing Me Home.

Much of the raw material for this arrangement was transcribed from the recording which appears on GIG 365 : MJWB. This arrangement for the Silk Road Ensemble would not have been possible without the following musicians who performed on that recording.
Ionita Manole: accordion
Cristinel Turturica: cimbalom
Mielu Bibescu: clarinet
Lucian Stoica: violin
Marius Gore: bass

St. James Infirmary Blues from GIG 365 : MJWB