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Pichona Troç

Left to right: Matt Szostak, Mike MacNintch, Tom Pixton

Matt Szostak: vielle à roue (wheeled fiddle)
Mike MacNintch: cornemuse (French bagpipe)
Tom Pixton: accordéon diatonique (one-row diatonic accordion)

Pichona Troç (which means “petit morceau” [small piece] in the central-French dialect of Ocçitan) has been playing traditional French dance music since 1991, when the band received a Dance Musicians’ Development Fund grant from FAC to create live music for Marianne Taylor’s New England Folk Festival bourrée sessions. Since then, Pichona Troç has collaborated with Marilyn Wathen and Germain Hébert, as well as with Marianne, to recreate the unique sound of the central-French provinces of Berry and surrounding regions.