
If I were going to project what two instruments would make the biggest splash in 2009, I would say the ukulele and the accordion . (As a side, both instruments can be heard on Coconut and The Duke's " In The Bamboo Forests Of Pennsylvania ".) The Vagabond Opera hail from Portland. You'll hear plenty of the latter instrument on their album "The Zeitgeist Beckons". I usually don't quote other people on this blog, but the Washington Posts sums up Vagabond Opera better than I can, " A Vagabond Opera [...]