High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sonny (Patrick) Brogan (4 July 1907 – 1 January 1965) was an Irish accordion player from the 1930s to the 1960s, and was one of Ireland's most popular traditional musicians. He was one of the earliest advocates of the two-row B/C button accordion in traditional music, and popularised it the 1950s and 60s. He originally played on a single-keyed Hohner melodeon, and later the two-row Paolo Soprani which he used until he died. Sonny's Paolo Soprani was one of the rarest, the grey model, made in 1948, when the company still made them by hand. Offaly-born button box player Paddy O'Brien currently has Sonny's accordion. Sonny Brogan was born in Prosperous, County Kildare, the eldest of three children born to Alicia Browne and Andrew Brogan. The family moved to Dublin when Sonny was still a small child. On a holiday trip to Kildare as a young boy, he first heard Irish music played on the accordion by his uncle, Thomas Cleary. His mother, when opening luggage on returning home, found a melodeon hidden there 'stolen' by Sonny who had taken a fancy to it. He was allowed to keep the instrument and taught himself to play it.

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