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AAA Festival Underway avec TV News Report, Baltimore - USA
Victoria International Accordion Festival, BC – Canada
Julien Labro joue avec l’orchestre symphonique de Detroit - USA
Reports for Concerts, Masterclasses, Competitions, Festivals, etc. |
BREAKING NEWS: Passing of Ralph Stricker - USASteve Roxton/Jean Dauvin Concert, Stockport – UKMiroslav Lelyukh & Artem Khachaturov Perform Piazolla, Kaliningrad - RussiaMonarch Accordions/YMA Music Receives 2012 Denver Award - USAThe Mahones - Across the USA, 2012! Tour - USA‘Heir of the Dog’ New James Keane CD, Dublin – Republic of IrelandAccordions and Fuel Efficiency, Hyundai TV Advert - USA14 Years Ago’ – Holland’s First Accordion Museum OpensSesame Street and Zydeco - USA
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Richard Galliano Master Class, Normandy – FranceAccordion Orchestra Brusque Featured - Brazil & ItalyMarco Lo Russo Tribute to Piazzolla Recital, Latina - ItalyHenry Doktorski @ Glimmerglass Music Festival, New York State - USALácides Romero Concert, Barranquilla - ColombiaRomano Viazzani Entertains, London - UKBeto Caetano Performing, Santiago – BrazilIII Festival International "Accordion Spectacular" - Portugal
New and Updated Sites |
Gary Dahl New and Updated Music - USA
CD Reviews |
Richness of the Tones CD by Esra Pehlivanli (Viola) and Marko Kassl (Accordion)Help Desk, Information needed, Readers CommentsSubmit Your Question, CommentSUBMIT NOW |
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Inscription pour le "World Accordion Orchestra VI” à Spoleto - Italieby Joan C. Sommers |
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 La CIA a le plaisir d’annoncer le “World Accordion Orchestra VI” qui sera formé durant la 65ème Coupe Mondiale à Spoleto en Italie.Soyez les bienvenus à cet évènement international d’accordéon ! Nous vous encourageons à participer à cet orchestre historique ! Le WAO VI jouera le vendredi 24 août au théâtre “Giancarlo Menotti” (image ci-dessous). Les membres du WAO VI comprendront des musiciens de nombreux différents pays (y compris le président Raymond Bodell (Concert Master) et de nombreux officiels de la Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) ainsi que des délégués participant au 128ème congrès. Il est possible de s’inscrire pour l’orchestre sur le site web de la Coupe Mondiale. Tous les amateurs sont invités à se joindre à cette magnifique aventure. Inscrivez-vous maintenant : les places sont limitées ! Vous trouverez sur la page web “World Accordion Orchestra VI” plus d’informations sur les directeurs Joan Sommers (Fondatrice de l’orchestre) et Torsten Petzold (Allemagne), ainsi que le programme du concert et des informations plus détaillées. L’orchestre jouera deux pièces : The orchestra will perform two pieces: - Paragon March de Anthony Galla-Rini, dirigé par Torsten Petzold (Allemagne) - Extraits de E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial) de John Williams, arrange et dirigé par Joan Cochran Sommers (USA). |
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AAA Festival Underway avec TV News Report, Baltimore - USAby Pamela Tom |
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| Le Festival de l’Association Américaine des Accordéonistes (AAA) débute le 11 juillet à Baltimore et dure jusqu’au 15 juillet. Vous pouvez trouver ici un communiqué provenant du « Press and Squeeze » de l’AAA. Il y aura sur scène : Deffner Music Publications, Music Magic, Accordions USA, Alessandrini, Ottavianelli Accordions Factory, Pancordion, Pigini srl, Roland, Roland-USA, Scandalli, Titano, Victoria Accordions, SqueezinArt, The New England Accordion Museum, Petosa Accordions and Brandoni. Un compte-rendu complet du Festival AAA sera en ligne. La photo ci-dessous représente Steve Albini et Tatiana Semichastnaya jouant lors d’un festival AAA. |
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Victoria International Accordion Festival, BC – Canadaby Rob Howard |
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 Le 6ème Festival International d’Accordéon de Victoria a eu lieu du 19 au 22 juillet. Il a commencé par un concours d’accordéon, au centre de Victoria. Alexander Sevastian (avec des invités) a donné un concert “Russian Night” le 20 juillet à l’Eglise St Andrew. Le 21 juillet, c’étaient le populaire accordéoniste yodeler Kerry Christensen ainsi que le sensationnel trio russe Voronezh qui étaient sur scène, après la parade des accordéonistes. Le Quartet Gelato, internationnalement recconu, a également donné un concert le 21 juillet. Le festival s’est terminé par un concert des lauréats dimanche. |
Julien Labro joue avec l’orchestre symphonique de Detroit - USAby Rita Davidson Barnea |
 Le 13 juillet, l’orchestre symphonique de Detroit, dirigé par Carolyn Kuan, a joué du jazz brésilien lors de leur 3ème week-end annuel de concerts en plein air. Le programme donnait une belle place à Julien Labro, diplômé de la Wayne State Université et co-leader du groupe Hot Club of Detroit. Il y avait également le guitariste-chanteur Paulinho Garcia et la vocalist jazz polonaise Grazyna Auguscik lors de ce concert. Labro et Garcia collaborent depuis de longues années en jouant de la Musique brésilienne et de la Bossa Nova durant des soirées brésiliennes, qui comprennent évidemment les tubes que sont «The Girl From Ipanema” et “Adios Nonino”. Pour plus d’infos: julien@julienlabro.com |
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by Ron Ostromecki
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  To all my accordion colleagues: With great sadness I wish to announce the passing (20 July 2012) of an accordion giant, and my very good friend, Ralph Stricker. Ralph is the author of the landmark book "Jazz Theories and Improvisation for the Accordion". He was also a noted professional Blackjack player in his earlier years and he wrote books on that subject as well. Ralph was a kind man who readily offered his musical knowledge to anyone who requested it. I will miss his friendly calls and kind words. We offer our condolences and prayers to his loving, caring daughter Kathy in her hour of loss. Ron Ostromecki |
by Rob Howard
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 The touring duo Steve Roxton (Jersey) and Jean Dauvin (France) were the guests at the Cheshire-based Stockport Accordion Club on July 18th, entertaining in a largely French musette style. Their performance certainly went down very well with the large audience, who were sent home in a happy mood.The concert opened with a set from the Stockport Accordion Band (MD Derek Stubbs), who played the march ‘Accordion Friends’, the traditional Polish waltz Szla Dzieweczka, and a lively waltz from Venezuela called ‘La Partida’. Other contributions came from Helen Rich with the ‘Trieste Overture’, a Stockport Accordion Club Quartet who played ‘Sunset Tango’ (Jerry Mayes) and ‘Crackerjack’ (GS Mathis), and Stockport AC Vice President Walter Perrie, who performed the music from Lehar’s ‘Merry Widow’. Steve Roxton began the guest spot singing and playing some Johnny Cash songs, followed by the ‘Fields of Athenry’, then a typical bierkeller medley in which he had everybody ‘schunkling’ up and down, side to side. He then brought on Jean Dauvin, and they played together in French musette mode. Jean then went solo, including demonstrating some of the impressive sounds of his MusicTech digital accordion. Their pieces included ‘March des Accordeonists Lyonnaise’, ‘Under Paris Skies’, ‘Fleur du Jura’, ‘Luci e Ombre’, ‘Jealousy’, ‘Reine de Musette’, ‘La Vie En Rose’, ‘La Seine’, ‘Pigalle’, ‘Reve de Jockey’, and many more. At the end many CDs and DVDs were sold, a mark of how well they went down with the audience. Steve Roxton and Jean Dauvin are also performing on their tour, as follows: July 21st – Middlesbrough Accordion Group July 22nd – Rosley Village Hall, Cumbria July 23rd – Black Country Accordion Club, Rowley Regis, West Midlands For further information email: robaccord5@hotmail.com |
by Harley Jones
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| The very different sound of accordion and organ performing Piazolla. This video is from the concert "In the Style of Tango" held July 7th at the Cathedral in Kaliningrad. Miroslav Lelyukh (accordion) and Artem Khachaturov (organ) as part of 'Project Organ +'. |
by Harley Jones
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 On July 11th, the Denver Award Program honored the achievements of Monarch Accordions/YMA Music.The Monarch Accordion Company was founded in Denver, Colorado in 1946 and in 1976 it was purchased by professional accordionist Mike Aman. Mike Aman assisted by his wife Alice, has spent 40 years in the accordion field as a teacher, professional player and businessman. Virtuoso accordion orchestras from YMA Music School have won first place at virtually every major North American accordion competition plus many solo student competition successes. "Each year, the Denver Award Program identifies companies they believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. The Denver Award Program was established to recognize the best of local businesses in our community." |
by Harley Jones
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 A just released video of tour snippets from The Mahones 2012 American tour which includes quite a bit of their accordionist Kate McConnell, picture left. |
by Rob Howard
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 2-row button accordionist James Keane, originally from Dublin but for based in New York since the 1970s, has recorded a new CD ‘Heir of the Dog’. James Keane, highly regarded by his peers in Ireland and the USA, is one of those responsible for establishing distinct styles of accordion playing in Irish traditional music. The tracks are: Reels: Jimmy Goblin's/Throw It Across/The Humours of Toomagh Reels: The Ladies Pantalettes/The Shepherd's Daughter/Kilty Town Jigs: Slieve Russell/Old Tipperary/The Hungry Rocks Hornpipes: The Humours of Tullycrine/The New Phone Reels: Spindle Shanks/John Brennan's/The Humours of Loughrea Jigs: The Woods of Old Limerick/Scully Casey's/The Sturgeon O'Carolan's Dream Reels: The Joys of Summer/Ferny Hill/The Old Wexford Reels: Julia Delaney's/Pretty Molly/Bill McEvoy's No.1 Jigs: Tommy Mulhair's/Josie's Visit/The Legacy Reels: The Grand Spey/The Galtee/Lucky In Love For further information email: support@allcelticmusic.com |
by Rita Davidson Barnea
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| If accordions can have a month, so can fuel efficiency says the latest Hyundai USA TV advertisement. |
by Rob Howard
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 The Accordions Worldwide news for July 24th 1998 included an item announcing the opening of Holland’s first accordion and harmonica museum. This museum is still flourishing in 2012, and has its own website. ACCORDION MUSEUM IN THE NETHERLANDS Contributed by Henk Kuik The first Dutch Accordion and Harmonica Museum "De Muse" opened last month with a collection of over 100 bellows instruments. The museum shows the development of these instruments from the Chinese Sheng to modern day instruments including bandoneons, concertinas, melodeons, accordions and some automatic instruments such as the Tanzbar and Hohner Organa. The 19th Century building is situated in Kerkplein 12, 6581 AC Malden, (near Nijmegen) in the southeast of Holland and also includes an accordion shop and a Music-café where musicians can meet and play. For further information email: museum@demuse.nl |
by Harley Jones
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| This just published video of Zydeco by the very famous childrens TV Show Sesame Street is pure FUN. So Enjoy!! They even included an education text. Zydeco is a form of uniquely American roots or folk music. It evolved in southwest Louisiana in the early 19th century from forms of "la la" Creole music. As of 2012, the rural Creoles of southwest Louisiana and southeast Texas continue to sing in Louisiana Creole French. Zydeco combines elements of an older American musical style that began in the late 1700s, Cajun music, a style that consists of French fiddle tunes, Irish Celtic fiddle tunes, German button accordion, Latin rhythms, and Appalachian styles. Zydeco music was born as a blend of Cajun music and two other "new" American music styles, blues and rhythm and blues. |
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 Famous French accordion virtuoso Richard Galliano leads a master class at the Salle de Chaussonniere, Avranches, Normandy, on Monday July 23rd, 2pm to 4pm. For further information email: martine.croce@instantpluriel.com |
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 The Accordion Orchestra Brusque, director Bruno Moritz (picture right), is being featured as part of the Festival of Chamber Music in Brusque, anta Catarina on the 27th, 28th and 29th July 2012 at the Brusque Business Center.In August, the Accordion Orchestra Brusque which was formed in 2009, will be touring to Italy where they will be featured at the 2012 Coupe Mondiale in Spoleto on the Friday 24th August evening concert in the “Giancarlo Menotti” Theatre. The players are: Bruno Moritz, Marise Zen Walendowsky Sonia, Till Claudio Eduardo, Rubens Marques, William Kriscinsky, Gelasius Schaefer, Claudemir Westarb and Cristiano Lang. |
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by Rob Howard
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 Accordionist Marco Lo Russo performs at the Fondi Music Festival on Sunday July 22nd. This concert, which takes place at 10pm in the Cortile della Giudea (Courtyard in the Jewish district of Judea), is a tribute to Astor Piazzolla, who died 20 years ago, and includes such pieces as ‘Oblivion’, ‘Libertango’, Meditango Vuelvo’, and ‘Muerte del Angel e Chiquilin’ by Bachin. For further information email: dina.tomezzoli@alice.it |
by Rob Howard
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 Accordionist Henry Doktorski (picture left) will play in the orchestra for 9 performances of Kurt Weill's opera ‘Lost in the Stars’ at the Glimmerglass Music Festival, at the Alice Busch Opera Theater, Otesgo Lake, New York State. The festival runs from July 14th to August 24th.Performance dates are: 22nd July 2012 28th July 2012 3rd August 2012 7th August 2012 11th August 2012 16th August 2012 18th August 2012 20th August 2012 25th August 2012 Check times nearer the concert date as some might be matinee performances. Presented by Cape Town Opera, ‘Lost in the Stars’ is the story of a South African priest's spiritual crisis, based on ‘Cry, the Beloved Country’, the classic novel by Alan Paton, and starring 2012 Glimmerglass Artist in Residence Eric Owens. For further information email: blesavoy@glimmerglass.org |
by Rob Howard
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 On July 26th, 6pm, leading Colombian classical accordionist Lácides Romero performs in concert both as a soloist and as a duo with harpsichord player Liliana Hernandez. The program includes music by Handel, Byrd, Albeniz, Piazzolla, Romero, Metra, and others. The concert is in the Auditorio Mario Santodomingo, Barranquilla, northern Colombia. For further information email: lacidesromero@gmail.com |
by Rob Howard
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 Romano Viazzani plays easy-listening continental style music with guitarist Ray Gallo at the Oxo Tower Brasserie, London, on Sunday 29th July 29th, between 12 noon and 4 pm.For further information email: romanoviazzani@hotmail.co.uk Three CD's available online at: Romano Viazzani |
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| Beto Caetano performs on August 3rd, 9pm, at the Churrascaria Gaucha, Santiago, RS, Brazil. The highly accomplished Beto Caetano has performed at festivals and venues in Brazil since the early 1980s, and has recorded 34 albums to date. |
by Harley Jones
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 The III Festival International "Accordion Spectacular" will be held, August 2nd and 3rd in Lourinhã and Praia da Areia Branca, Portugal. Performers listed on the poster left. |
New and Updated Sites |
by Gary Dahl
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 Gary Dahl - performer, composer, arranger, recording artist and music educator announces the following new music titles for purchase on-line. 'The Swan', catalog:DH0244. Samples for these music are now available at the MusicForAccordion web site. The music is in eSheet format e-mailed directly to your computer. Easy purchase with credit card. |
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by Joan C. Sommers
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 CD Reviews Index for the Review of Richness of the Tones CD by Esra Pehlivanli (Viola) and Marko Kassl (Accordion), in English language, reviewed by Joan Cochran Sommers. |
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