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Thursday 20 October 2011 |
ScheduleOfficials and Guests
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| Jury members Sam Falcetti (USA) Joseph Macerollo (Canada) Raymond Bodell (France) | Sam Falcetti, Sandra Albini (USA)and Harley Jones (Accordions Worldwide) |
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| Steven Albini (Roland USA), Marco Cinaglia (Roland Europe) and Sandra Albini | Graham Laurie, Raymond Bodell, Joseph Macerollo, Sam Falcetti, Harley Jones and Andreas Nebel (Germany) |
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| Harley Jones and Andreas Nebel smiling nicely into the camera... | The tallest men Roberto Gaetani and Andreas Nebel (1,93) with Harley Jones in the middle |
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| USA and Italy | Canda, Spain, Brazil enjoying dinner together |
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| Marco Cinaglia sharing dinner with contestants from Japan and Jun-ichi Suzuki (Roland Rotterdam Office, Japan) | Contestant Pietro Adragna (Italy), Luigi Bruti Marketing Director of Roland Europe and contestant Matthias Matzke (Germany) |
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| The three Bridge generations from Canada | Klaus Aktroprak (Roland Germany), Emir Bosnjak (Denmark) and Mikael Andreasen (Roland Scandinavia). |
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| Belgium, Italy, Germany, France at one table | Brazil Team with Giordano Mahatma and Sergio Paulo Terranova (middle) |
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| Spain Team with contestant Anatolie Eremciuc (middle) | Andreas Nebel (Germany) and Graham Laurie (UK) |
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| Raymond Bodell (France), Joseph Macerollo (Canada), Sam Falcetti (USA) | Russia, Japan, China and Italy sharing dinner together |
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| Roland Van Keulen (Netherland) with mother and Win Van Deuren (Belgium) | French contestant Mathieux Barbier with girlfriend |
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| Holda with Steven and Sandra Albini and Daniell Renzi USA Team | Roberto Gaetani (Roland Europe) keeping control of the video streaming |
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| Luigi Bruti announcing the procedure and time table of the Festival | with Chinese contestant Qi MA carefully checking music titles |
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| Audience and contestants waiting for the draw of playing order | |
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| The magic "red Box" having been used from the very first edition of the Roland Festival and being used as "good luck symbol" | Holda being very unconfortable drawing the FIRST contestant to play! |
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| 1st to play was the Hungarian contestant Attila Bock Màariò and he is then drawing for the next contestant | Thomas James Hardaker from UK |
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| Mathieu Barbier from France | Michael Bridge from Canada |
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| Emir Bosnjak (Denmark) | Stanislav Malyshev (Russia) |
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| Manabu Hiyama (Japan) | Ronald Van Keulen (Netherlands) |
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| Daniell Renzi (USA) | Qi Ma (China) |
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| Matthias Matke (Germany) | Giordano Mahatma (Brazil) |
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| and second last to play Pietro Adragna from Italy | |
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| Lining up for the group photo of Roland Europe staff and contestants | |