We are going to see the Motion Trio tonight at the Polish Embassy. It's the last in this season's series of embassy nights in DC, where there is a reception and some kind of musical event in one of the embassies in town. I'm on the email list and get notices all throughout the year. But what caught my eye was that there was a special "buy two get one free" for this night, and the music is accordion music! Not your typical embassy, classical kind of musical thing. It should be fun. The group, The Motion Trio, is touted as being unlike any other accordion act in the world.
My only other experience with accordions is when I was growing up and my best friend was taking accordion lessons. He had to practice every day. So, I got to listen to him a lot as I waited for him to finish, so we could do real things. Like play baseball.
We have four tickets for tonight. Got the three for two deal and then one more. Erin and Brid are down for the week, while Brid goes to a nearby string camp next week with her violin. So we get to hang out and do some nice Alexandria-DC sorts of things. Like accordion embassy visits.
Subscribe Now: Feed Icon
About Me
- Mark Gorman
- I was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, along the banks of the Susquehanna River, in the valley made up by Bald Eagle Mountain to the south, and gentle hills and valleys to the north. That place that sheltered me, gave me food and friends, and both physical and spiritual nourishment for 18 years. That is the space where I was physically and emotionally formed. Ever since growing up there . . . because of growing up there . . . I have been inexorably linked to nature . . . to the earth and to all life.