In the 40s and 50s, accordian wrestling was huge in Finland. Meet the man who's bringing it hereKimmo Pohjonen did not like playing the accordion when he was a child in the 1970s. "Accordion players were really uncool," he tells me at his studio in Helsinki. "I didn't dare tell my friends. I was so ashamed because it was only old guys who played."Pohjonen is now an extremely cool 47-year-old with conical hair, who has earned the nickname "the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion". He was born in Viiala...
Guardian Music — In the 40s and 50s, accordian wrestling was huge in Finland. Meet the man who's bringing it hereKimmo Pohjonen did not like playing the accordion when he was a child in t... more info