Art Edelstien in Times Argus, 2016
Special Award “Jeremiah McLane, of Sharon, who has been making music for 30 years or more, earns the Special Award for Best Musician. He trained for classical piano but is also a noted piano accordion player. In the early 1990s,
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Interview with WCAX
The accordion is enjoying a comeback. The instrument is gaining in popularity and more youngsters are taking lessons. Steve Bottari sets the stage with Jeremiah McLane, a composer and teacher in southern Vermont and master of all things accordion. Watch the
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Strafford’s Accordion Playing Legend
When former Vermonter and Pulitzer prize winning author Annie Proulx wrote “Accordion Crimes,” it was because she heard in that instrument the essence of immigrant America. Here was an instrument with as many varieties of song as there were nationalities
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A review of Going Elsewhere
Rambles: What’s a classically trained musician such as myself supposed to make of a band that describes its music-making process as a deconstruction of Irish tunes followed by a reassembling “with the aid of second-and-third-world blueprints?” When the little blurb
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‘Hummingbird’ Jeremiah McLane and Ruthie Dornfeld
Dirty Linen: With a mix of courtly and spirited dance numbers, the depth and skill of these two players is matched only by their obvious love and respect for the traditional music they play. Both world-renowned virtuosos on their respective
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Nightingale ‘Three’
Nightingale is a Vermont-based trio comprising fiddler Becky Tracy, guitarist/vocalist Keith Murphy and accordionist Jeremiah McLane, and Three is, aptly, their third recording together – not including various combinations of them in other bands. (McLane, for example, is a co-founder
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Nightingale ~ Three
Fans of the Vermont-based trio Nightingale have had to wait a long time for Three, the band’s third CD. It has been eight years since the last recording (Sometimes When the Moon is High; the first CD was entitled The
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Jeremiah McLane – Rambles.NET
When I first saw this CD, I was not quite sure of what to expect. The album cover — a picture of bare trees on a hillside — gives no clue as to what lies ahead. A photo of the
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Chicago Tribune – Le Bon Vent
By Aaron Cohen – Special to the Tribune October 29, 2006 When accordionist Jeremiah McLane and clarinetist James Falzone talk about an early tour of their group, Le Bon Vent, both bring up a minor act of vandalism that turned
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