Accordionist Annie Gong to perform at Lantern Festival in Auckland
24 Feb, 2021 11:53 PM
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Lincoln Tan is the New Zealand Herald’s diversity, ethnic affairs and immigration senior reporter.lincoln.tan@nzherald.co.nz@LincolnTanNZH
Most won t associate jazz, classical music, pop and rock music with an accordion, but this is how China-born accordionist Annie Gong is taking the instrument to the next level. People would have heard of one-man-band, but I am a one-woman-orchestra and the only one in New Zealand, proclaimed Gong, who moved to Auckland 20 years ago and has for a most part been performing globally and on cruise ships.