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Festival
de Acordeón, Eastbourne - Reino Unido
Información
por Rob
Howard
 El
Festival de Acordeón de Eastbourne tendrá lugar del
17 al 20 de Febrero de 2006. El organizador, John Romero ha comentado:
"Cuatro días de música es la mejor fórmula
para los acordeonistas. Nuestro programa incluye conciertos de músicos
conocidos como Andy Anderson, Gary Blair, Paul
Chamberlain,
Sue Coppard, Gennaro Fiondella, Harry Hussey, Lisa Lee Leslie, John
Romero, Romano Viazzani y Charlie Watkins.
Tendremos, por supuesto, una amplia demostración comercial
con Trevani Studios, Acordeones electrónicos Ltd y WEM. Además
Stan Mayhew estará disponible para afinar acordeones. Cerca
de seis horas de clases tendrán lugar el fin de semana y
a nuestros invitados les animo a traer sus acordeones para divertirse
en nuestro concierto" El
festival tiene lugar en el Hotel Cumberland, uno de los mejores
hoteles de Eastbourne. Las reservas son limitadas pero ya pueden
reservarse.
Para
más información: jr@carillonstudios.co.uk
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Carrefour
Mondial de l'Accordeon, Quebec - Canada
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
 Scottish
accordionist Gary Blair sent the following report on the recent
Carrefour Mondial de l'Accordeon, held in Canada:-
"Having lost my accordion on travelling,
it was a relief when it arrived a matter of hours before my first
performance. For me, the festival was an outstanding success. There
were accordionists from around the world. Scotland, England, France,
Italy, South America and, of course, Canada were represented.
Throughout Montmagny, there were different stages and most performers
played at least 4 or 5 times during the weekend. A huge crowd was
present at the Mayor's Park in the center of town. Some
of the performers present included Gary Blair, Frederic Baldo, Giancarlo
Caporrilli, Frederic Langlais, Sam Garcia, Mickaël Vigneau
and Chris Parkinson".
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25th
Anniversary Accordion Festival, Geiranger - Norway
Contributed by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
 Domi
Emorine and Roman Jbanov, known as the Paris-Moscow
Duo, performed at the recent Belgiaden I Geiranger Accordion
Festival, and have sent the following report:-
"The host Ørskog Accordion Club
celebrated 25 years with a festival in Geiranger this year. During
the weekend the audience could see and hear 6 concerts and dances.
The mood was great, and both professional and amateur performers
were on the stages.
Belgiaden I Geiranger has been a success from the first festival
in 1980 when Ebbe Jularbo and Lennart Wärmell were performers.
This year the young recruits showed us that we will also be hearing
great accordion music in the future. Every year big names from all
over Scandinavia have visited the festival. This year the host had
invited the Paris-Moscow
Duo of Domi Emorine and Roman Jbanov.
They played both solo and duets and received massive applause. The
audience was thrilled listening to a mix of classical music, folk
tunes and French variety music. The artistes communicated in Russian,
French, English and Norwegian!
The hosts had also their own contributors in the program. The Junior
Orchestra and the Club Orchestra were both on the stage several
times, with Knut Ivar Bøe as conductor. Also performing were
the youth group 'Optirock', Ingrid G. Hellen, and Oda K. Stenberg,
from Vestnes, and Miquel and Daniel Falcón from Engesetdal.
Another local artiste was Kristina B. Farstad, who also played solo
with the club's own orchestra. Linda Gytri and Vidar Skrede played
traditional folk music. The concert opened with Carl Jularbo's 'Life
in the Finland Woods', in which almost every accordion player present
participated. From Sweden, the famous accordionist Alf Hågedal
was successful both as concert player and as a dance musician. This
festival was a great artistic and commercial success".
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Young
Accordionist's Success at International Eisteddfod, Wales - UK
Contributed by Rob
Howard
 Faye
Ventre, aged 12, from Sawbridgeworth in England, recently achieved
great success being placed 2nd in the Under 16 Instrumental Solo
section at the 59th Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod. Faye,
a pupil of accordion teacher Stella Hughes, played a bayan button
accordion, and competed against instrumentalists from many other
countries to reach the final.
In the
final, which was televised by Sky Television and BBC Wales, Faye
played two contrasting pieces from the 'Children's Suite No 1',
by Valdislav Zolatariev.
Competing against players of the cello, violin, clarinet and piano,
the adjudicators praised Faye for the maturity, musicality and sensitivity
of her playing.
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Poozies
October Tour - UK
Contributed by Christine
Adams
 The
all-female folk band The Poozies, featuring Karen Tweed on accordion,
tour concert venues around the British Isles in October and November.
The dates and venues are;-
October
19th - Lakeside, Nottingham
20th - Courthouse, Otley, West Yorkshire
21st - Courtyard, Hereford
22nd - Village Hall, Llandinam, Wales
23rd - Musicport Festival, Whitby
24th - Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
25th - Tollbooth, Stirling
26th - Queen's Hall, Hexam
27th - Playhouse, Alnwick
28th - Arts Centre, Southport
29th - Centenary Hall, Peel, Isle of Man
30th - Norwegian Church, Cardiff, Wales
31st - Arts Center, Dartington
November
1st - 'Folk in the Fall', Purcell Room, London
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Alexander
Selivanov, first prizewinner of international competitions and
teacher at the Gnesin's Academy of Music in Russia
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Douglas
Ward releases three compositions, 'Abacus',
'Coming
Home', and 'Serenity'.
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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Gary
Dahl's site is updated to include full length .mp3 sound files
of music from 3 of his popular books. Please visit www.accordions.com/garydahl
to enjoy these varied samples of music.
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English
El
acordeonista de tex-Mex Flaco Jiménez actuará en el
concierto del 25 de septiembre para recaudar fondos en el estadio
Alamo, San Antonio. El concierto también incluye artistas
del cajun, blues, rock, country, western y mariachi, quienes donarán
todo su tiempo y talento para las víctimas de este reciente
desastre. Flaco
Jiménez, cinco veces ganador de un premio Grammy, es uno
de los organizadores del concierto.
El
19 de Septiembre el Profesor 
La
Universidad Trinity, Londres (También conocida como Trinity
Glildhall) ha introducido un programa de estudios de acordeón.
Los exámenes que ofrecen van del Grado 1 al 8, incluyendo
Certificado de Primer Concierto e Interpretación, válidos
en el Reino Unido. El programa incluye asesoramiento para acordeón
de bajos sueltos y acordeón de bajos stradellla, con una
lista de repertorio diferente para cada uno. 
The
annual Festivals Acadiens takes place from September 16th to 18th,
at Girard Park and Downtown in Lafayette. This large scale Cajun
festival involves such accordionists as Ray Abshire (picture right),
Wayne Toups (picture far right), Jeffery Broussard and DL Menard,
plus many other musicians and bands. 
A
new