Naragonia

Biography

Pascale Rubens and Toon van Mierlo are the two members of the band Naragonia. Pascale originally studied classical violin, but when she was 19 she fell in love with the diatonic accordion. She also plays in Musaraigne and teaches courses and lessons in playing the diatonic accordion. Toon started playing uillean pipes in 2000 and soon afterwards he became aquainted with a selection of other instruments (French bagpipe, oboe, clarinet, soprano saxophone and diatonic accordion). He also plays in...

Pascale Rubens and Toon van Mierlo are the two members of the band Naragonia.

Pascale originally studied classical violin, but when she was 19 she fell in love with the diatonic accordion.
She also plays in Musaraigne and teaches courses and lessons in playing the diatonic accordion.
Toon started playing uillean pipes in 2000 and soon afterwards he became aquainted with a selection of other instruments (French bagpipe, oboe, clarinet, soprano saxophone and diatonic accordion). He also plays in Hot Griselda and Embrun and teaches playing the bagpipe and the diatonic accordion.
Naragonia formed at the Andanças Festival in Portugal in 2003. They recorded their first cd, 'Tandem', in may 2006.
It is filled with folk music that varies from energetic and powerful to modest and quiet, though it is always danceable.
They are accompanied on the Tandem album by Grégory Jolivet on hurdy-gurdy and Philip Masure on guitar.
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