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Gigi Stok – Centenary – 100 years of great accordion music

ZZ Music has new Gigi Stok old stock music in stock! How sad that due to Covid 19 restrictions the planned concert celebrating Gigi Stok’s centenary will not take place this year in Italy.  Plans are afoot to postpone it till next year depending on how the virus behaves over this coming winter. However, ZZ Music will endeavour to mark the maestro’s centenary by making available some new, old stock music after the more recent Ricordi/BMG publications now out of print have become increasingly hard to find.

Nando Monica – Another accordion great from Parma

The large light-orchestra Bocelli with Nando Monica

Nando Monica was born in Langhirano near Parma in 1921. He started learning the accordion very young and by the time he was aged 9 he would go out to play at dances with his father, and amateur Double Bass player.

Nando Monica – Another accordion great from Parma

The large light-orchestra Bocelli with Nando Monica

Nando Monica was born in Langhirano near Parma in 1921. He started learning the accordion very young and by the time he was aged 9 he would go out to play at dances with his father, and amateur Double Bass player.

Gigi Stok – Romano Viazzani’s childhood accordion hero

Gigi Stok with Fratelli Crosio Accordion

Gigi Stok –  Romano Viazzani’s childhood accordion hero Having an accordion-playing father I was exposed to the accordion at a young age not only when my father sometimes got his accordion out to practise or when his musician friends came round for a jam. He was a keen amateur and had circumstances been different I’m […]