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Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration, Washington – USAby Rob Howard |
This year’s Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration takes place from Thursday June 17th until Sunday June 20th, at the Leavenworth Festhalle, 1000 Front Street, Leavenworth, Washington State. Other venues include the Gazebo and Chumstick Grange. The 17th annual Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration, sponsored by the Northwest Accordion Society, celebrates accordion music in many of its various forms: jazz, popular, classical, ethnic, and much else besides. The festival includes a competition, concerts, workshops, jam sessions, a film/video series, and a parade down Front Street. The concert guests (and also workshop leaders) this year are Patricia Bartell, Gary Blair, Cory Pesaturo, and Murl Allen Sanders. Other workshop leaders are Bonnie Birch, Jim and Shirley O'Brien, Kory Tideman, Max Kyllonen, and Johnny Vukonich. The competition adjudicators are Gary Blair and Jim Tobler. For further information email: bonniebirch@msn.com |