In particular, the accordion was adopted by Tejano folk musicians at the turn of the 20th century, and it became a popular instrument for amateur musicians in Texas and Northern Mexico.

The Acorn Theatre is a 200 seat performing arts venue in Worksop town centre, providing a full programme of professional and amateur live theatre and folk music.

As a result, bard tunes usually made their way around as folk lore, from mouth to mouth, or via the copying of amateur recordings ( sometimes referred as magnitizdat ) made at concerts, particularly those songs that were of political nature.

In particular, the accordion was adopted by Tejano folk musicians at the turn of the 20th century, and it became a popular instrument for amateur musicians in Texas and Northern Mexico.

The Chequer Mead Community Arts Centre includes a modern 349-seat purpose-built theatre, which stages professional and amateur plays and music ( local rock groups to chamber music orchestras ), opera, ballet, folk music, tribute bands, and talks.

Dragonboats are the basis of the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing an amateur watersport which has its roots in an ancient folk ritual of contending villagers held over the past 2000 years throughout southern China.

Although there is a rich pool of folk songs in this region, traditions are not being cherished and most zagorian folk music available is performed by amateur groups.

There are literally hundreds of amateur choirs throughout Denmark, usually specialising in traditional Danish songs or folk music.

In pre-1949 Shanghai, Lu worked a trishaw driver, but was also an amateur musician, performing the Jiangnan sizhu folk ensemble repertory.

Ranging from Jazz standards to Brazilian folk music, these arrangements have made their way into the repertoire of both professional and amateur guitarists.

Rosemåling became widespread as amateur artists in rural areas often imitated this folk art.

Metelko was also a collector of folk songs and an amateur poet.

From the 17th century the Hoklo immigrated from Fujian to Taiwan and took with them informal folk music as well as more ritualized instrumental and operatic forms taught in amateur clubs, such as beiguan and nanguan.

A typical Palace contained one or several cinema halls, concert hall ( s ), dance studios ( folk dance, ballet, ballroom dance ), various do-it-yourself hobby groups, amateur radio groups, amateur theatre studios, amateur musical studios and bands, lectoriums ( lecture halls ), and many more.

It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by amateur and professional Ukrainian dance ensembles, as well as other performers of folk dances.

Also known as " Goosfest ", the week-long showcase comprises a wide variety of events promoting the cultural life of the village, consisting of amateur and professional practitioners ( many of whom are local ) across a wide range of the arts, including stand-up comedy, classical, folk and contemporary music, pottery, photography and paintings.

Despite the Russian cultural dominance in the city, enthusiasts among ethnic Ukrainian nobles, military and merchants made recurrent attempts to preserve native culture in Kiev ( by clandestine book-printing, amateur theater, folk studies etc.

Although an enthusiastic amateur musician and patron of the ballet, Alexander was seen as lacking refinement and elegance.

Hopkinson was a reputed amateur musician.

* 1666 – James Sherard, English apothecary, botanist, and amateur musician ( d. 1738 )

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician who was born in Queens, New York, and Connie McHugh, a nurse.

She read widely, did fine needle work and was an amateur musician.

His father was a successful jack-of-all-trades in the arts, a painter of miniatures, sculptor, decorative stonemason, and amateur musician ; his mother was the nearly illiterate daughter of a master wigmaker.

Brown was also a bon viveur, amateur musician and genuine British eccentric.

Michael Brown provides an insight into what contemporaries thought of James I. Walter Bower abbot of Inchcolm lists James's accomplishments as a musician —' not just as an enthusiastic amateur ' but a master, ' another Orpheus.

Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, () ( born April 9, 1971 ), is a Canadian automobile racing driver and amateur musician.

His father, Robert Victor Britten, was a dentist, and his mother Edith Rhoda Hockey, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation.

In 1872, Whistler credited his patron Frederick Leyland, an amateur musician devoted to Chopin, for his musically inspired titles.

His father, Niels Jørgensen, was a house painter and amateur musician who, with his abilities as a fiddler and cornet player, was in strong demand for local celebrations.

His father was a mailman, his mother a talented amateur musician.

His father was an amateur musician.

More important than this praise was that among the work's admirers was a wealthy timber merchant and amateur musician, Mitrofan Belyayev.

* date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer ( b. 1746 )

* Sir Gilmour Jenkins ( 1894 – 1981 ), civil servant and amateur musician, ex-Vice President of the Royal Academy of Music ;

Carpenter's other abilities included being a talented amateur jazz musician and an accomplished player of the piano, the saxophone, and the double-bass, playing the last instrument professionally in a dance band in the 1970s.

It is generally agreed that Runjanin, an amateur musician, composed the music for Mihanović's patriotic Croatian song Lijepa naša domovina in 1848 using inspiration from Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor.

Formed in the summer of 1964, by amateur avant-garde musician George Hunter and music major Richard Olsen, the earliest line up of The Charlatans featured George Hunter ( autoharp, vocals ), Olsen ( bass, vocals ), Mike Wilhelm ( lead guitar, vocals ), Mike Ferguson ( piano / keyboards, vocals ), and Sam Linde ( drums ).

The Baron led a multifaceted career as a diplomat, librarian in charge of the imperial library, amateur musician, and generous patron of music and the arts.

His father, Fred, was a barber, while his mother, Olive Agnes ( née Johnson ), was an amateur musician.

Interestingly, Campbell was not hired as a musician but as security ; because of rivalries between fans devoted to a particular sound system, the parties sometimes could become quite rough, and Campbell had been a skillful amateur boxer as a teenager.

William ( Bill ) Colvig ( 1917 – 2000 ) was an electrician and amateur musician who was the partner for 33 years of composer Lou Harrison, whom he met in San Francisco, California in 1967.

A Beauvoir trader involved in legal and financial matters, Mathurin was also an amateur musician.