Gilberto Reyes on the Remarkable Rebirth of the Button Accordion

Object Details

Creator

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

Views

1,972

Video Title

Gilberto Reyes on the Remarkable Rebirth of the Button Accordion

Description

Gilberto Reyes is one of the most influential, modest, and under-recognized people in American regional and Mexican traditional music. He oversees all of Hohner’s accordion products and has been at the forefront of a resurgence of accordion music, especially the button accordion favored by Mexican and Mexican American musicians. Read more: https://folklife.si.edu/talkstory/the-remarkable-rebirth-of-the-button-accordion Director: Charlie Weber Interviewers: Daniel Sheehy, Margaret Salazar-Porzio [Catalog No. CFV10896; Copyright 2017, Smithsonian Institution]

Video Duration

4 min 52 sec

YouTube Keywords

culture music performance tradition folk language festival smithsonian "washington dc"

Uploaded

2017-10-25T20:11:40.000Z

Type

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

See more by

smithsonianfolklife

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

YouTube Channel

smithsonianfolklife

YouTube Category

Travel & Events

Topic

Cultural property

Record ID

yt_rlaBMgDrq-4

Metadata Usage (text)

Usage conditions apply