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Archives, Hour 19 to Hour 24, World Accordion Day, 6th May 2012 - International by Directors: Frédéric Deschamps, Grayson Masefield & Mike Rossi

Hour 19
South Africa, Portugal & Poland. Interview with Sergio Zampolli’s wife Amarillie about their May 6th celebrations in South Africa. Performances and interview by multiple World Champion Joao Barradas or Portugal. Video of Joao Frade Portugal and interviews with Matuesz Doniec and Lukasz Mirek from www.akordeon.pl talking about the Polish May 6th celebrations organized by the Music Academy of Bydgoszcz.


Hour 20
England and Ghana. Interview with NAO chairperson Anna Bodell, the CIA President Raymond Bodell, Douglas Ward, Romano Viazzani. Includes performances from the Classical Buskers, The Royal Squeezebox and Romano Viazzani. Video of the late Bishop Michael Osei Bonsu from Ghana.


Hour 21
USA (East), Bahamas, Canada (East). Manny Bobenreith talking about his work with the U.S. Army Strolling Strings with a rendition of Piazzolla. A presentation of the AAA and after which Joan Grauman explains the history and it’s foundation. Talking to Diana Hamilton from the Bahamas and a performance with Jerome Richard. Performances from past World Champion Alexander Sevastian talking about his career and the evolution of accordion repertoire.


Hour 22
Brazil and Chile. Performances by Adriana Sanchez, Douglas Borsatti, Sivuca, Jackson Jofre Rodriguez and Brazilian popstars such as Michel Telo. Presentation from Ernesto Calderon about the accordion in Chile and video archives of Ignacio Hernandez.


Hour 23
USA (Central) and Argentina. Performances by the UMKC conducted by CIA Vice- President Joan Sommers followed with an interview about the accordion and accordion orchestras. Aldo Taborda plays two performances and explains about piano accordion in Argentina.


Hour 24
USA (West) and Canada (West). Interview with Shelia Lee and a demonstration of Texas diatonic accordion music. Daniel Kott from Texas talking different styles of education for the accordion. Interview and Performances by Michael Bridge and to finish Aleksander Milojsevic the organiser of Coupe Mondiale 2013.

An open letter for all World Accordion Day Participants: Thank you to all the participants of this year’s World Accordion Day 2012! Whether you were interviewed, a performer, sent in a video, commented on the live chat or even just watched, this event couldn’t have been possible without you. Thank you to the Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) for creating World Accordion Day in 2009 and their continuous support and promotion of the accordion around the world. Also we must mention the members of the CIA Executive that took part with in this event: Raymond Bodell, Kevin Friedrich, Kimmo Mattila, Joan Sommers, Herbert Scheibenreif , Harley Jones and Mirco Patarini plus members of the CIA Music Committee: Viatcheslav Semionov, Andreas Nebl and Li Cong. There must of course be a very sincere thank you to our technical director Mike Rossi. His efforts and improvisation are greatly appreciated, especially as we were receiving videos throughout the live 24 hours. Thanks to Harley Jones (creator of www.accordions.com ) for his promotion and support of the event. The whole project was a worldwide success with over 310,365 minutes viewed with over 20,160 connections from over 87 countries. Congratulations must be given to the countries with the highest viewers: 1. USA, 2. France, 3. UK, 4. Chile, 5. Russia, 6. Germany, 7. Canada, 8. Italy, 9. Greece, 10. Finland. It proves that the accordion world is a real family no matter what level, whether beginner or professional or what genre they choose to play (Classical, Traditional, Jazz, Arabic, Contemporary, Ensemble etc... ) Thank you once again for everyone’s help, Sincerely The World Accordion Day Team Grayson Masefield – Coordinator & Co-Presenter Frederic Deschamps – Co–Presenter