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Frank Busso, Snr To Receive the 2022 AAA Lifetime Achievement Award - USAby Joan Grauman Morse |
Frank Busso, Snr will receive the 2022 American Accordionists' Association (AAA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 festival which will take place at the Marriott Philadelphia West Hotel in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA from July 13th to 22nd, 2022. Frank has faithfully served the AAA as Treasurer, Vice-President, President (1981, 1992-94), and has also chaired many committees including the annual national festivals, and the Young Artists Concert Series. He held the position of the Comptroller of the AAA for many years. For decades, Frank has been an educator, performer, conductor and all-around ambassador of the accordion. You can read the feature article from the 2017 AAA Festival Journal: "Spotlight on Frank Busso Sr.". It is an enjoyable, heartwarming and enlightening biography of a man whose life revolved around his love of the accordion, the national accordion community, and his family. Photo below left to right: Christina Busso Lammers, Alexander Lammers, Frank Busso Sr., TV news reporter - blue dress, Caroline Lammers, Frank Busso Jr., and Nicholas Busso at the 2018 AAA Festival, Alexandria, VA. |