Interview with Bruno Gendron About his Grandmother

Bruno Gendron, seated in front of a piano, talks about his grandmother’s influence on his father.

Transcript: It was my grandmother, on the Gendron side, who played the accordion. My grandfather was a sailor and my grandmother used to say… She had 13 children, she usually stayed home… She would say [to Bruno’s father]: “If you’re good tonight, I’ll play the accordion for you.”Anyway, he [Bruno’s father] told me: “She would go upstairs to get the accordion out of a room, and she would play it for us. I liked it so much, I always behaved.” But my grandmother was embarrassed to play the accordion. A woman in those days, playing music and all that. I never actually heard my grandmother play. Sometimes I’d say: “Play for me.” She’d laugh, embarrassed: “Ah, no.”