Paul Groff
@paulgroff.bsky.social
Self-employed musician, biologist, researcher, teacher, parent. Available for teaching, tutoring, consulting, instrument appraisals. Fine antique concertinas, button accordions (and more) for sale on consignment. References available.
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Paul Groff
@paulgroff.bsky.social
· Jan 17
I taught for over a decade (untenured Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at the U of Miami, retiring December 2024 to work with more flexibility in all the fields that interest me. Still open to great teaching, research, writing, or tutoring opportunities in Botany, Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, Ethics
Monthly Groff's Music Concertina Hangout, online via Zoom for former and current concertina students and concertina customers of my shop: this Saturday, November 8. Email me after November 5 for the zoom link . . . don't use the addresses or phone numbers on these cards from the 1980s and 1990s ;)
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Monthly Groff's Music Concertina Hangout, online via Zoom for former and current concertina students and concertina customers of my shop: this Saturday, November 8. Email me after November 5 for the zoom link . . . don't use the addresses or phone numbers on these cards from the 1980s and 1990s ;)
First public gig for the new project last Thursday 9/4/25. My own playing was scattering rust all night, but what a great time. Thanks to Panayotis Paddy League for his brilliant bouzouki backing. Squeezed in some outreach to new concertina players too. Couldn't beat it. bluetaverntallahassee.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
First public gig for the new project last Thursday 9/4/25. My own playing was scattering rust all night, but what a great time. Thanks to Panayotis Paddy League for his brilliant bouzouki backing. Squeezed in some outreach to new concertina players too. Couldn't beat it. bluetaverntallahassee.com
More on my lecture next Wednesday September 3 in Tallahassee FL at the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University:
August 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
More on my lecture next Wednesday September 3 in Tallahassee FL at the Center for Music of the Americas at Florida State University:
Music from Metallic Springs, my new performance and recording project, featuring a few instruments I love to play that developed from the 1850s to the 1930s, but whose original sounds in some cases have rarely been heard in recent years. The title is borrowed from an article published in 1839.
August 13, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Music from Metallic Springs, my new performance and recording project, featuring a few instruments I love to play that developed from the 1850s to the 1930s, but whose original sounds in some cases have rarely been heard in recent years. The title is borrowed from an article published in 1839.
Hi all, I'll be starting up a once-monthly evening concertina hang-out session on Zoom for current and former concertina students, concertina customers, and other friends of Groff's Music. Message me if you might be interested in participating. NO CHARGE and you don't have to play in the meeting
June 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hi all, I'll be starting up a once-monthly evening concertina hang-out session on Zoom for current and former concertina students, concertina customers, and other friends of Groff's Music. Message me if you might be interested in participating. NO CHARGE and you don't have to play in the meeting
Wonderful Shauna O'Hara dancing a hornpipe at the 2025 Florida Folk Festival. I really enjoyed the two years of working with her mostly on her lovely piano backing for the music, thanks to the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program and Dom Tartaglia (Dom's video copied by phone from screen)
May 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Wonderful Shauna O'Hara dancing a hornpipe at the 2025 Florida Folk Festival. I really enjoyed the two years of working with her mostly on her lovely piano backing for the music, thanks to the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program and Dom Tartaglia (Dom's video copied by phone from screen)
Here's some purely beautiful music from two of my favorites. francisandeimear.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca...
The Caves of Kiltanon, by Francis Cunningham & Eimear Coughlan
12 track album
francisandeimear.bandcamp.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Here's some purely beautiful music from two of my favorites. francisandeimear.bandcamp.com/album/the-ca...
Reposted by Paul Groff
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
April 7, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
Masterful dancing and piano backing from Shauna O'Hara at our gig yesterday!
March 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Masterful dancing and piano backing from Shauna O'Hara at our gig yesterday!
Very thoughtful discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXV...
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It? | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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March 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Very thoughtful discussion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PXV...
My Dad, Jerry Groff, who left us in 2019. Never far from my thoughts, especially when his birthday comes around.
March 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My Dad, Jerry Groff, who left us in 2019. Never far from my thoughts, especially when his birthday comes around.
Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: 'They're Going After You' www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: 'They're Going After You' | Common Dreams
"Focus not on what Trump says, but on what he does," said the senator from Vermont.
www.commondreams.org
February 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: 'They're Going After You' www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...
Say what this is: a coup.
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Say what this is: a coup.
Friends,
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February 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Say what this is: a coup.
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Excerpt from Shauna O'Hara's lesson January 26, 2025. Video by Michael O'Hara. Thanks to the Florida Folklife Program for supporting Shauna's work!
January 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Excerpt from Shauna O'Hara's lesson January 26, 2025. Video by Michael O'Hara. Thanks to the Florida Folklife Program for supporting Shauna's work!
I taught for over a decade (untenured Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at the U of Miami, retiring December 2024 to work with more flexibility in all the fields that interest me. Still open to great teaching, research, writing, or tutoring opportunities in Botany, Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, Ethics
January 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I taught for over a decade (untenured Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) at the U of Miami, retiring December 2024 to work with more flexibility in all the fields that interest me. Still open to great teaching, research, writing, or tutoring opportunities in Botany, Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, Ethics
Concertinas in Dublin in the 1850s: three concertinas sold, labeled (and in some cases signed) by Joseph Scates in Dublin, 1850s. Left: english system; middle: Wheatstone's early Duett system; right: anglo-german system.
January 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Concertinas in Dublin in the 1850s: three concertinas sold, labeled (and in some cases signed) by Joseph Scates in Dublin, 1850s. Left: english system; middle: Wheatstone's early Duett system; right: anglo-german system.
Rough draft of a poster summarizing some of my recent work on the history of the Irish-American Accordions, developed by Baldoni-Bartoli, F.H. Walters, and other accordion innovators in New York City, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
January 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Rough draft of a poster summarizing some of my recent work on the history of the Irish-American Accordions, developed by Baldoni-Bartoli, F.H. Walters, and other accordion innovators in New York City, from the 1920s through the 1960s.
Thanks to concertina player and scholar Aoife Kelly and fluter/fisherman Charlie Le Brun, and to James, Eve, and Sarah Kelly, for inviting me to join a lovely session while Aoife and Charlie were visiting Miami, November 2024. Great tunes, friendship, & some (concertina) shop talk.
January 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Thanks to concertina player and scholar Aoife Kelly and fluter/fisherman Charlie Le Brun, and to James, Eve, and Sarah Kelly, for inviting me to join a lovely session while Aoife and Charlie were visiting Miami, November 2024. Great tunes, friendship, & some (concertina) shop talk.