St James Infirmary Rides Again...and Again

A backstage moment in Easton, MD with trumpeter Dominick Farinacci. Thanks to Jazz on the Chesapeake for having us, and to Jaymes Poling for the capture!

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.

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

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.

Oh Matey

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

St. James Infirmary live @ TED Conference

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