WAlexander Prince was an early 20th-century vaudeville musician and recording artist who played the McCann-system Duet concertina. Born Alexander Sutherland in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was first given a concertina at age 8 by his music shop-owner father, who wanted to give him something to do after a broken leg rendered him immobile. Of this event, Prince said, "I am, or was, alas an infant prodigy. It was an accident, primarily. I was 8 years old, and I broke my leg. I had to lie in bed, and that was the start." He started to perform while still a youth, and by 1889 London's The Era newspaper mentioned him in a review of the club Alhambra Palace: "Alexander Prince plays the concertina with great effect, and is rewarded with much applause." After performing at the Glasgow Exhibition at age 20, Prince went on to perform internationally, including a 1904 tour in South Africa.
WMohsen Amini is a Scottish concertinist. He is a co-founder and member of the folk trio Talisk and the folk band Ímar.
WJonathan Paul Clegg, OBE, OIS was a South African musician, singer-songwriter, dancer, anthropologist and anti-apartheid activist, some of whose work was in musicology focused on the music of indigenous South African peoples. His band Juluka began as a duo with Sipho Mchunu, and was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man. The pair performed and recorded, later with an expanded lineup.
WNoel Hill is an Irish concertina player from County Clare who has had great influence developing the modern playing style of the Irish concertina, as a performer and educator.
WJohn Kirkpatrick is an English player of free reed instruments.
WMarie Lachenal (1848-1937) was an English concertina performer of classical music for Lachenal & Co., the concertina company that was run by her mother, Elizabeth Lachenal.
WJapie Laubscher (1919–1981) was a concertina player for Boeremusiek in South Africa. Per Denis-Constant Martin: "[he] used a singular kind of tremolo, akin to the characteristic vibrato of langarm saxophonists that, according to Vincent Kolbe, may originate in the fiddle traditions of Cape Town ".
WPaddy Murphy (1913-1992) is regarded as a founding father of modern Irish concertina music.
WGiulio Regondi was a Swiss-born classical guitarist, concertinist and composer active in France and (mainly) the United Kingdom.