12 Ottobre 2007
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In corso il Festival di Castelfidardo – Italia
Roland V Accordion Festivals – Belgio & Francia
UNAC (Unión de Acordeonistas), San Sebastián – Spagna
‘Mull Reflections’ – Nuovo CD, Scozia – UK
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NE Accordion Festival, Minneapolis - USA
Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival, Gipuzkoa – Spain
Roland International ‘V-Accordion Camp’ - Italy
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Balkan Dance Party, Minneapolis – USA
Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival 2007 – UK
Ferran Martinez Concerts, Barcelona – Spain
Victor Prieto Concerts, New York – USA
Diatonic Accordion Workshop, Virginia – USA
Andre Verchuren Concert, Porcieu Amblagnieu- France
Murl Allen Sanders Concerts, Washington State– USA
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In corso il Festival di Castelfidardo – Italia
Contributed by Harley Jones

Il 32° Festival Internazionale della Fisarmonica di Castelfidardo si sta svolgendo in questa settimana, da Lunedì a Domenica. Quest’anno il festival ha una nuova immagine, un nuovo logo e una nuova grafica.
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L’obiettivo è di richiamare a Castelfidardo il maggior numero di persone possible, e per questa ragione la parola chiave utilizzata è “incontro”: tra i diversi marchi di strumenti, tra i diversi artisti ed insegnanti internazionali, tra la città e gli ospiti, dichiara Francesca Santini di Ideazione Eventi.

Il report del festival e del concorso, insieme ai risultati dettagliati delle varie categorie, saranno pubblicati on line. Castelfidardo Full Detailed Results - Photograph Report
 
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Roland V Accordion Festivals – Belgio & Francia
Contributed by Olivier Kerkhofs of Roland Central Europe

Il giorno 28 Settembre la semifinale olandese si è svolta nella sede della Roland Central Europe in Belgio, per i concorrenti olandesi e fiamminghi.

Il vincitore della seminfinale olandese è Pieter Bosma (30 anni, di Coevoorden, Olanda) e ha suonato una sua artistica versione di ‘Kwartet Musette’, di Allan Mussini, sulla sua FR-7b.

Il giorno 20 Ottobre, i tre finalisti saranno presenti, insieme a 3 finalisti francesi, nella grande finale Roland Central Europe.

Da questi sei concorrenti un candidato sarà selezionato per la finale internazionale in Italia.

La semifinale francese si è svolta a La Bourboule nel Casinò Nice.
La Bourboule è una città a 500 Km a Sud-Ovest di Parigi, vicino a Clermont Ferrand. Dieci musicisti erano stati selezionati per partecipare, cinque dei quali provenienti dalla famosa scuola internazionale di fisarmonica CNIMA. Questa competizione era aperta anche a concorrenti provenienti dalle zone di lingua francese di Belgio e Lussemburgo.

La giuria era composta da Ludovic Beier (fisarmonicista, dimostratore V-Accordion), Daniel Deruytere (Roland Central Europe) e Philippe Krumm (direttore della rivista ‘Accordeons & Accordeonistes’).

Il vincitore, Felicien Brut, e la terza classificata, Amelie Castel, provengono dal CNIMA, e anche il secondo classificato, Bereswind Olland, ha partecipato a diversi corsi al CNIMA.
  
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UNAC (Unión de Acordeonistas), San Sebastián – Spagna
Contributed by Joxan Goikoetxea

UNAC – l’Unione dei Fisarmonicisti di Spagna arriva al primo anniversario dalla sua fondazione. L’UNAC è stata fondata con l’obiettivo di raggruppare in una unica associazione tutti i professionisti spagnoli, solisti, gruppi, compositori, insegnanti ecc. insieme a tutti gli amatori ed entusiasti, appassionati e devoti alla fisarmonica.

UNAC attualmente supporta e promuove importanti eventi organizzati da differenti associazioni e gruppi: il 20° Anniversario dell’Orchestra Zero-Sette, la 50a Edizione del Certámen Nacional de Acordeón, il 15° Festival Internazionale di Cantabrian, il Seminario Internazionale del Jazz di Zarautz,
la Settimana della Fisarmonica di Valladolid ecc, in aggiunta ad una grande varietà di Seminari e Master-classes dirette da Max Bonnay, Luciano Biondini, Frederic Deschamps, Ignacio Alfayé e Jean-Louis Noton.

UNAC intende anche seguire con molta attenzione il crescente numero di CD registrati dai suoi membri. UNAC è Corresponding Member della CIA (Confederation Internationale des Accordionists), e fa base a Donostia, San Sebastián.

Per maggiori informazioni scrivere a: joxan@joxan.com
 

‘Mull Reflections’ – Nuovo CD, Scozia – UK
Contributed by Rob Howard

‘Mull Reflections’ è il titolo di un nuovo CD del fisarmonicista Deirdre Adamson, con composizioni di Calum MacLean, uno dei più grandi musicisti scozzesi. Le 20 tracce includono brani internazionali come ‘Echi di Lucerna’ (valzer), ‘San Antonio’ (paso double), ‘Veronique’ (valzer musette), ‘Springtime In Switzerland’ (valzer), Memories of Bad-Godesberg’ (polka), oltre a numerose composizioni in stile scozzese, come ‘Sunset On Sunart’, ‘Fergie MacDonald's Jig’, ‘The Hills of Mull’, ‘The Man from North Connel’, e ‘Jim McAlister's Jig’.

Calum MacLean è stato Campione Europeo di Fisarmonica nel 1970, e da allora è diventato molto conosciuto per la sua capacità di comporre musiche per fisarmonica dei generi più vari. La maggior parte delle composizioni di Calum MacLean sono state pubblicate.

Per maggiorni informazioni scrivere a: info@scottish-irish.com
  
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NE Accordion Festival, Minneapolis - USA
Contributed by Dee Langley

The NE Accordion Festival, presented in association with the Walker Art Center and sponsored by KFAI FM Radio, takes place the Cedar Cultural Center from November 9th to 11th.

Performers include Dan Turpening, Finn Hall, Joanna Darrow, Dan Newton, Larry Malmberg & Mike Alongi, Mark Stillman, Datta, Dee Langley, Orkestar Bez Ime, Jerry Minar, Hank Thunander, Frode Haltli (Norway), and John Scaffeo, Canada. The festival includes concerts, workshops, ‘Jazz Symposium’, Massed Accordion Band rehearsal and performance (MD Wendy Tangen-Foster).

This festival began ten years ago and has three times upgraded to larger venues to accommodate increasing visitor numbers. The accordion is alive and well (and blossoming) in Minneapolis/ St Paul!

For further information email: squeezermn@yahoo.com
  

Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival, Gipuzkoa – Spain
Contributed by Rob Howard

The opening evening concert, on Friday September 28th, featured a full performance by the Elsene Accordion Orchestra, from the Netherlands.

The 2007 Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival main evening concert took place on Saturday September 29th at the Casa de Cultura, Lasarte-Oria, in the Basque region of Northern Spain. A sell out audience enjoyed performances by Enrike Zelaia (Spain - right), Nathalie Boucheix (France - left), the Elsene Accordion Orchestra, and the Zero Sette Akordeoi Orkestra (Spain). Amaia González and José Mari Orbegozo, Tango Europe Champions 2007, gave a spectacular performance of tangos, to the accompaniment of the Zero Sette Akordeoi Orkestra.

Next year’s Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival takes place from September 26th to 28th 2008, and invitations are extended to accordion orchestras from any part of the world to visit and participate.

For information e-mail: 07ao@zerosette.es
  
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Roland International ‘V-Accordion Camp’ - Italy
Contributed by Holda Paoletti-Kampl/Akio Oda-Roland


Roland Europe S.p.A (Acquaviva Picena, Italy), a manufacturing subsidiary of the international electronic musical instrument producer Roland Corporation (Japan), organized an international meeting in Castelfidardo, Italy on October 2nd and 3rd. The two-day meeting was dedicated to Roland's V-Accordion and V Accordion Specialists.

V-Accordion sales staff were invited from Roland's sales subsidiaries and joint-venture companies all over the world including; USA, Canada, Brazil, UK, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, and Italy. This international meeting was organized with the support of Castelfidardo City Hall, and the meeting itself took place at the Conference Room in the Castelfidardo City Hall. Photographs

This meeting was titled ‘V-Accordion Camp’, and  various topics such as the introduction of the brand-new V-Accordion models FR-2 / FR-2b (the first shipment was just made in September), V-Accordion R&D history and technology, V-Accordion Promotional Strategy, V-Accordion Festival up-to-date... were all discussed.

Furthermore, in order to develop their knowledge of accordion development and history in general, they visited the Castelfidardo Accordion Museum. There, they received a warm welcome by Mr. Beniamino Bugiolacchi, the director of Museum. Many of the participants saw for the first time, not only the historical accordions but also the fact that the Roland's first V-Accordion model FR-7 is exhibited at the Museum. Photographs
  
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Balkan Dance Party, Minneapolis – USA
Contributed by Colleen Bertsch

The Orkestar Bez Ime, featuring accordionist Dee Langley, play for the Balkan Dance Party at at the Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 13th, at 8pm. The event also marks the release of OBI’s new CD ‘Nice Driveway, Volume Three: Rogarian Baba-que’.

For further information email: colleenfiddle@yahoo.com
  
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Shetland Accordion and Fiddle Festival 2007 – UK
Contributed by Rob Howard

Shetland's 20th Accordion & Fiddle Festival takes place from October 11th to 15th. The guest artistes include button accordionist Bill Black (now back playing after losing the index finger of his right hand in a freak accident last year) with pianist Mabel Gray, the trio Cuckoo’s Nest (Ireland), David Vernon, Deoch n’ Dorus, Gordon Shand Scottish Dance Band, James Corbett, Jim Gold Trio, Liz Doherty and Jim Woods, Martin Tourish (Ireland), Ottar Johansen (Norway), Pentlands Ceilidh Band, Quarter Deck, Roy Hendrie, Sandy Legget, Sandy Nixon, Sean Og Graham and Aidan O’Donnell (Ireland), and the Susan MacFadyen Scottish Dance Band.

For information e-mail: info@shetlandaccordionandfiddle.com
 

Ferran Martinez Concerts, Barcelona – Spain
Contributed by Rob Howard

Bayan player Ferran Martinez performs as follows:

October 20th - Escola Infantil Ntra Sra del Pilar, c/Pere d'Om, Sabadell, Barcelona
November 18th, 6.30pm – St Mart’s Church, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona
December 20th, 7pm - Auditorio Ocab, Entença, 218, ent, 1a Barcelona

Ferran’s program includes
‘Luz Azu’ - C. Camarero
‘Preludio i Fuga g#m Clave’ - J.S.Bach
‘Capriccio’ - W. Zolotarew
‘Fantasia 84’ - J. Ganzer
‘Autumn Scenes’ - A. Kusyakov
‘Recuerdos de la Alhambra’ – F. Tárrega
‘Capricho Español’ - M. Moskovski

For further information email: acordio@ferranmartinez.net
 
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Victor Prieto Concerts, New York – USA
Contributed by Rob Howard

Jazz accordionist Victor Prieto has many concerts in his diary in the next few weeks, including:

13th, 11am – with the Pasblo Asian Group, New Jersey
13th, 3pm – with the Pasblo Asian Group, Battery Park, New York
13th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Night and Day, Brooklyn
15th, 8.30pm - with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
19th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
20th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
27th, 6pm – with the Pasblo Asian Group, Tango fiaca, Harvard, Boston
November 16th, 6pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project at BBC, New York
December 1st, 8pm - with the Pasblo Asian Group, Bucknell University

For further information email: victorprieto2001@yahoo.com
 
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Diatonic Accordion Workshop, Virginia – USA
Contributed by Rob Howard

On October 21st, 4pm, Jim Vandelly and Joan Grauman will present a workshop on diatonic accordions at the Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society, held at Sleepy Hollow United Methodist Church, 3435 Sleepy Hollow Road, Falls Church, Virginia.

In honor of the season, Joan will also play some Oktoberfest tunes. In addition, Jim will show some videos of Russian musicians. Afterwards, rehearsals will take place for the December 16th holiday concert.

For further information email: mcherkasky@verizon.net
 
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Andre Verchuren Concert, Porcieu Amblagnieu- France
Contributed by Rob Howard

Veteran accordionist Andre Verchuren is in concert at the Salle de Marinieres, Porcieu Amblagnieu on October 21st, at 11.30am. Born in 1920, Verchuren’s career spans the generations from the 1930s, through the post-war years right up to the present time.

For further information email: Webmaster@andreverchuren.com
 
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Murl Allen Sanders Concerts, Washington State– USA
Contributed by Rob Howard

Accordionist Murl Sanders performs as follows:

Regular performances at the Thirteen Coins Sea-Tac, October 23rd to 27th, and November 13th to 17th.
October 21st, 5pm to 7pm - solo concert at Sherman Clay, 1000 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue.
December 8th, 10am - noon  - solo concert at Imagine Children's Museum, 1502 Wall St, Everett.

For further information email: murl@murlallensanders.com
 
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Charnwood site releases 10 new sheet music of "Impresiones De Espana", "Machico", "Brief Prelude", "Cavallina Mia", "Chanson De Paris", "Chiripa", "Coquette/You & I", "Musette Francaise", "Tango Sentimental/Nice ‘N’ Easy" and "Carnival". Samples of the music are available online. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card.
 
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