Concertinas In Art

[Anglo-Irishman]

Interesting! I wonder if he's any relation to the Bill Badger who was (and, I believe, still is) Rupert Bear's best friend.

 

He was a friend of mine, and of my children's, and now my grandchildren have got to know him, too. However, I've never seen Rupert's Bill Badger make music of any kind.

 

Cheers,

John

 

Edited July 21, 2020 by Anglo-Irishman

[Alex West]

There's clearly a relationship between badgers and concertinas.  This book cover came up in a Zoom quiz at the weekend

 

Alex West

[Roger Hare]

4 hours ago, Alex West said:

There's clearly a relationship between badgers and concertinas...

Badgers are into Morris as well...

[Stephen Mills]

From Lilias Kinsman-Blake, who sometimes plays flute with Alistair Anderson.

Edited July 27, 2020 by Stephen Mills

[Mike Franch]

You can tell the vintage concertinas that badgers played, they're the ones with the scratches around the buttons.

[Anglo-Irishman]

I liked the badger with the banjo. Sort of gives meaning to the term "Clawhammer!"

 

Cheers,

John

[arkwright]

Do you know the name of the artist?

[John Wild]

1 hour ago, arkwright said:

Do you know the name of the artist?

There is a signature at the bottom. It is not very clear, but the last name looks like Baker, and the first name might be Lillian. I cannot identify the middle name.

[Stephen Mills]

On 7/29/2020 at 3:07 PM, arkwright said:

Do you know the name of the artist?

The artist is Lillias Kinsman-Blake of Glasgow.  The print is called Dueling Badgers.

 

link to Dueling Badgers

https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/lillias-kinsman-blake/artwork/dueling-badgers

 

link to some of her other artwork

https://kinsmanblakegallery.co.uk/lilliasandthelion

 

link to some of her music (on flute - sometimes in a group with Alistair Anderson)

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/lilliaskinsmanblake.html

[Timv]

The devil plays a concertina on the cover of John Prine's record Lost Dogs + Mixed Blessings

 

[Richard Mellish]

I thought it was harps in Heaven, accordeons in Hell.

[Gail_Smith]

but the Mona Lisa has got that concertina fixed-expression-of-concentration-linked-to-mild-panic perfectly.  I now know that she was thinking "what the hell is the b music ??..how does it start ???.. and its coming up soon..."

[David Barnert]

7 hours ago, Gail_Smith said:

but the Mona Lisa has got that concertina fixed-expression-of-concentration-linked-to-mild-panic perfectly.  I now know that she was thinking "what the hell is the b music ??..how does it start ???.. and its coming up soon..."

 

I laughed heartily at this and clicked the "Haha” button before I realized that you were referring to a post of mine in this thread from 14 years ago that I don’t even remember!

[Daniel Hersh]

Here are a couple from the American comic strip writer and artist Walt Kelly, taken from his book Songs of the Pogo.