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28-Jan-2022
by Christine Johnstone
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 Video: Two beginner concertina players are inviting other concertina players to play this simple melody of a canon with them just for fun. This is a 19th century canon well known throughout Germany.The first-ever World Concertina Day will be held on February 6th, 2022, the 220th anniversary of the birth of Sir Charles Wheatstone, inventor of the English concertina. World Concertina Day is sponsored by the International Concertina Association, in celebration of the 70th anniversary of their founding in 1952. The ICA hope to bring together concertina players all over the world on February 6th, to “celebrate our wonderful musical instrument and to raise awareness of the concertina with the general public and media.” On February 6th, they will have an all-star video concert with performances from John Kirkpatrick, Rob Harbron, Jody Kruskal, Alistair Anderson, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Caitlín Nic Gabhann, Paul McCann and many others. Locally organized events on or near that day have been confirmed for Berkeley, California and the Puget Sound area in the USA, for Hampshire, Lewes, Sussex and Bedford in England, as well as a museum display in Somerset, England. Players in the eastern half of the USA and Canada are putting together a compilation of video performances. Two US players are planning their own concert performances: a recorded concert by Randy Stein on English and a Zoom concert by Janet Dows on Anglo. The Cafe Orchestra, based in Holmfirth, England, is planning a new video featuring five concertinas as well as other instruments. For further information email: wcd@concertina.org |