Award winning accordion brothers John and George Burns are joined on the drums by French speaker and compère Fergus Wood. John is the current Musette Champion of Scotland and former All-Scotland Accordion Champion. They present a very varied programme which includes foxtrots, tangos, mazurkas and polkas, in addition to waltzes.
Les Trois Blondes are the only band in Scotland specialising in Bal Musette, the French café music of Paris. There is a very strong tradition with Scottish accordionists of playing this style of music which is mostly in waltz tempo.
Much of the music played by the band features numbers made famous by Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf, the little sparrow, and several items in their programme of over 80 compositions are by the two Burns brothers. Musette goes well with French wines and French cooking and recently the band played at a very romantic event on 14 February in Café Santé, one of Perth’s leading French restaurants.
When not playing musette, the band’s mainline work is ceilidh music, which has taken them all round the world.
Trois Blondes is a double entendre in the context of the band – it means “Three Pints of Lager,” please!
The band is available to play at any occasion or event such as a Parisian night in Scotland where a flavour of Bal Musette accordion music would enhance the event. they’re also very popular as a ceilidh band at weddings, and are also available as a duo, Pas de Deux.
Playlist includes:
Retour Des Hirondelles
Valse Des Marin Pêcheurs
La Foule (as sung by Edith Piaf )
Lyon (A Catarsi)
Dantesque (Morbidelli) polka
Domino (Louis Ferrari)
Triste Sourire (Frans Van Capelle)
C’ est si bon (Henrei Betti) foxtrot
Océane (Musichini and Poudroux)
Reine De Musette (Peyronin)
Mario Di Napoli (Roberto Miles and Jean Garcia)
Hymne A L’Amour and La Vie En Rose (both made famous by Edith Piaf)
Concinnous Musette (John Burns) concinnous means elegant and harmonious!
Mellifluence (George Burns)
Moonlight On The Tay (John Huband)
Villa Cracieuse (Arthur Spink)
L’Ame Des Poètes (Charles Trenet)
Requerdos De La Coruna (Addie Harper) Spanish waltz
Invitation Au Musette
Flambée Montalbanaise (Gus Viseur)
La Dent Blanche (George and John Burns) a mountain in the Alps
Louise (George Burns)
Style Musette (André Verchuren)
Pearl Musette (George and John Burns)
Polka Des As
Amis Du Musette (André Verchuren)
Nuages (Django Reinhardt) foxtrot
Coeur Vagabond (Joseph Colombo)
Poésie Musette (Eric Bouvelle and Maurice Larcange)
Marissa’s Waltz (George Burns)
Jeannette (Gus Viseur)
Mademoiselle De Paris (Paul Durand)
Corinne (Charles Camilleri)
Ma Chérie (John Huband)
Ballade De Rabouine (Joss Baselli and Gus Viseur)
Germaine (Joseph Colombo)
Java Des As
Le Pingouin Acrobate (André Astier)
Le Gamin De Paris (Adrien Mares)
Valse Musette (Albert Vossen)
Performances
7.30pm, Friday 26 June 2026: Strathearn Music Society, Crieff
7.30pm, Saturday 22 March 2025: Ayr Music Club
3pm, Sunday 16 March 2025: Crail Community Hall
3pm, Sunday 17 March 2024: Crail Community Hall
3pm, Wednesday 17 August, 2022: Rannoch Old Church, Kinloch Rannoch
7.30pm, Friday 3 December 2021: Bute Arts Society, Rothesay
2.30pm, Sunday 21 November 2021: Hawick Music Club, at Hawick Rugby Club
7.30pm, Saturday 2 October 2021: Ardrishaig Public Hall, Mid Argyll Arts Association
7.30pm, Saturday 28 September 2019: Balerno Music Festival
7.30pm, Saturday 13 July 2019: Arran
3.30pm, Sunday 23 June 2019: St Conan’s Kirk, Loch Awe
1pm, Saturday 6 April 2019, Spire concert series
3pm, Sunday 23 September 2018, Dunoon Burgh Hall
Sunday 13 May 2018, Doune
2.30pm, Wednesday 13 September 2017, Tahiti Trot, Ross Priory
