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31-Jul-2009
by Linda Soley Reed, AAA President
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 The American Accordionists’ Association 2009 Festival was held in Memphis, TN at the Holiday Inn Suites on the campus of the University of Memphis from July 15-19, 2009. Highlights of the Festival included performances by Riders in the Sky featuring Joey Miskulin; Jeff Lisenby and the NashVegas Jazz, Tony Lovello, Bruce Gassman, Joe Natoli and Mary Tokarski. Comprehensive workshops in every possible subject kept festival goers busy throughout each day. Contest chairman, Mary Tokarski, announced the winners in the top categories which included The International Piano Accordion Competition (Carmen Carrozza Scholarship) – 1st place - Martynas Levickis of Lithuania; A Tribute to the King – The Elvis Presley Category – 1st place – John Moceo; The Maddalena Belfiore Competition for Female Accordionsts – 1st place - Angel Liu of China; The Vivian Vivio Stolaruk Entertainment Competition – also won by Angel Liu; Workshops included: Mary Kathryn Archuleta – Teaching Strategies for students with special learning needs; Randy Martin – You can play jazz, too!; Dominic Karcic – Embellishing Made Easy; Beverly Robers Curnow & Dr. Robert Young McMahan – The Accordion Novelty; Dr. Helmi Harrington – A World of Accordions Museum; Tony Lovello – The Entertainer; Bernard Metais – 100 Years of Musette Style in Paris; Joan Grauman – AAA Arcivist and Joe Natoli – Learn to Compose Yourself and the Roland V-Accordion – Right out of the box! This year, the AAA introduced the Elsie M. Bennett Composition Category and received three wonderful entries all of which were performed at the Awards Concert. Friday’s sightseeing tour of Memphis was culminated by the mass band performance at Graceland under the direction of Frank Busso, Sr. The 2009 guest conductor of the AAA Festival Orchestra was California’s Randy Martin. |