Gogol Bordello is an American punk rock band from the Lower East Side of Manhattan, formed in 1999 by musicians from all over the world and known for theatrical stage shows and persistent touring. Much of the band's sound is inspired by Romani and Ukrainian music mixed with punk and dub, incorporating accordion and violin.
Gogol Bordello performing in 2014
Eugene Hütz live in 2012.
Sergey Ryabtsev in 2012.
Yuri Lemeshev in 2012.
Accordions are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type. The essential characteristic of the accordion is to combine in one instrument a melody section, also called the diskant, usually on the right-hand keyboard, with an accompaniment or Basso continuo functionality on the left-hand. The musician normally plays the melody on buttons or keys on the right-hand side, and the accompaniment on bass or pre-set chord buttons on the left-hand side. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist.
A piano accordion (top) and a button accordion (bottom)
An accordionist
Eight-key bisonoric diatonic accordion (c. 1830)
The first pages in Adolf Müller's accordion book