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...array of motorcycle jackets, floppy hats, and sunglasses—continued to delight with a short 10-song set. Like their attire, the Ladies’ set list was eclectic, ranging from the newly-released Bush-bashing rhyme “Fun and Games” to the accordion-driven classic “If I Had A Million Dollars.” The band displayed its humorous bent, improvising a nonsensical song in the middle of discussion with the moderator, Tracy E. Nowski ’07, and playing soothing elevator music in the background...

Author: By Jessica M. Luna, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Barenaked Ladies - Finally Here! | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...played the accordion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 9, 2006 | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...probably the first person in the world who took up the accordion to get girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 9, 2006 | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

Musical director Molly J. Hester ’08, along with Lindsay K. Turner ’07, has organized a small musical ensemble to bookend “Playboy” and to punctuate its action. The instrumentation is traditionally Irish, and certainly unique to the production. The accordion, fiddle, Uilleann (dubbed “indoor bagpipes” by Hester) and bodhran (an Irish percussion instrument) will accompany a vocal musician who, according to Spillane-Hinks, spans the gap between music and theater, and who will introduce the performance in a manner reminiscent of a Shakespearian prologue...

Author: By Mollie K. Wright, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "Playboy of the Western World" | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

...Zizkov was an organism, beer would be its blood and Borivojova Street its main artery?it's home to about two dozen bars and pubs. The sounds of live rock, punk, blues, country and Old Prague accordion pour from open windows on summer nights. And while the street still hosts old-school carpenters and hardware stores, a variety of new businesses have arrived, including a hot pink apartment building turned three-star hotel, a halal butcher and a yoga studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bohemia's Bohemia | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

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