About
Accordion Lucy is an accordion player for hire in Highton, VIC.
Every piece Lucy plays is memorised, which means no music stand and no fixed spot. She can rove through a venue on accordion, tap a foot tambourine and hold a conversation mid-tune. Her repertoire crosses Parisian bal-musette, European polkas, German drinking songs, Italian tarantellas, Irish jigs and reels, Argentine tango and Christmas favourites, with costumes to match, from dirndls to full French dress with beret. She's a regular at Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market, plays annual events for Alliance Francaise in Geelong and Melbourne, and has appeared on Sunrise and ABC's The Piano. At weddings she covers the whole day, soft pieces for the ceremony through to a group tarantella after dinner. Public liability insurance is held.
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The show
You get to pick the look as well as the music. Lucy keeps a big costume collection, bright and colourful at one end, soft or black and white at the other, traditional dirndls or something more alternative depending on what your event is meant to feel like. The repertoire is large and all of it memorised, which is why she can rove through a room instead of standing behind a stand. And if there's a particular tune you want on the day, she can learn it for you ahead of time.
On the day
Very little needed, honestly. She arrives 30 to 60 minutes ahead depending on the sort of event, and where no PA is required the set-up amounts to taking the accordion out of its case. One request: somewhere out of the way and safe to store the case while she plays, since a hard case in a walkway is a hazard and a case left in the open is a worry.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Song list
171 songs
Amor Dammi Quel Fazzolettino
Arriverdeci, Roma
Bella Ciao
Brindisi
Buonasera Signorina
Calabresella Mia
Carnival of Venice
Ciribiribin
C’e La Luna Mezzo Mare
Chella La
Ciao, Ciao, Bambina
Ciuri Ciuri
Ci Sara
Comme Facette Mammeta
Felicita
Funiculi Funicula
Godfather Waltz
Guaglione
La Donna e Mobile
La Spagnola
Ma Come Balli Bene Bella Bimba
Marina
O Sole Mio
Reginella Campagnola
