Accordion | Blake Miller | Advanced | Period 2 | Week 1 (July 6-10, 2026)
In this class, we’ll work on improvising and embellishing on the accordion. We’ll try to find little things that make a big difference. The class won’t be about expanding your repertoire, but rather take just a few common songs and work on the techniques that’ll put some fire into your playing. Rolls, bounces, explosions and punches, oh my!
Check out more about Blake’s class in the video below!
About the Instructor
Blake Miller comes from a multi-generational musical family in Iota, Louisiana. He learned to play all the instruments traditionally found on a Cajun bandstand through his grandpa (world-renowned accordion maker Larry Miller of Bon Cajun Accordions), father, uncles, the late local accordion player Kenneth Thibodeaux, jam sessions at D.I.’s Cajun Restaurant, as well as the Augusta Cajun Week in Elkins, West Virginia. He started playing regular dances at the age of 14, and at 17, he began bringing his love of Louisiana French Music around the world with bands such as the Red Stick Ramblers, Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole, and Pine Leaf Boys among others. Today, you can find him with the Revelers, with his wife Amelia Biere in the Old-Fashioned Aces, Balfa Toujours, the Daiquiri Queens, the Lafayette Rhythm Devils, and you never know who else. You can hear him on the radio as well with his bilingual public radio show called La Lou Jukebox on 88.7 fm, KRVS.org. He also loves to teach and pass on the music he loves through private lessons, at various music camps, and even at his alma mater UL Lafayette.