Len Wallace

If there's one thing you can say about Canada's Len Wallace it's that he's one red-hot accordion player. Classically trained, he's an accomplished virtuoso in the joys of the big squeeze and a former Canadian National champion. He's been acclaimed as "The Squeezebox from Hell" for his incredible musicianship and stunning performance delivery all his own. It's passionate and powerful.

These days he's turned his accordion - what he calls "the people's instrument" to world and folk music, singing songs of social justice and the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. He's an accordion rebel.

With three recordings that have received rave reviews he's now due to release his fourth album. They blend contemporary and traditional folk and world music, a tapestry of Celtic and Slavic melodies, songs with social meaning. Len weaves it all together into a seamless whole.

Like a modern Woody Guthrie for the Millennium he's been on the line himself performing in concerts, and festivals across North America, onstage at New York's Lincoln Center, singing to 300,000 working people gathered  at Canada's Parliament Hill, on picket lines, in the pubs, rallies, workshops and on national television and radio.

In the words of veteran Canadian folk music veteran, Bob Bossin, "Lawrence Welk was never like this!" And as Bruce Hutchinson from WBAI-FM Radio in New York urged, "He should not be missed.

The Len Wallace website is:  http://worldaccordion.tripod.com

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