Accordion, Art and Jellyfish, with Karen Tweed

Dec 7

About the episode

In this episode I’m speaking with English piano accordion player Karen Tweed. Karen is known for her smooth, playful style on the accordion and is regarded as one of the finest performers of Irish Music on the instrument. She regularly teaches at The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at Limerick University and the Folk and Traditional Music program at Newcastle University.

In this conversation we talk surprisingly little about the accordion, as we end up visiting a lot of different topics as diverse as creativity, art, role models, musical colors and cartoons(!) Karen is a truly inspiring person, listening to her talk just makes you want to go out in the world and create things!