Gilberto Reyes on the Remarkable Rebirth of the Button Accordion

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Gilberto Reyes on the Remarkable Rebirth of the Button Accordion

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]

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