Button accordion pushes cultural connections with DreamPlay

The latest concert from DreamPlay features what can only be described as musical treasures. For one thing, there’s the instrument that will be featured most prominently: the button accordion, which has played a key role in musical cultures from France to New Orleans to Ukraine. The music of all of these places and more will be on full display in Spirit Reel: The Musical Worlds of Jim Hiscott, which is the other treasured element of DreamPlay’s concert. Hiscott, who has been a Winnipegger since the 1980’s when he moved here as a producer for CBC Music. Since then, he’s become a fixture in the city’s musical community as a performer and composer, including of the piece that gave this concert its name. googletag.cmd.push(function() { if($(document).width()