| Leyland Accordion Club - 20th June 2007
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Our June Concert
Our June concert started with Colin Ensor playing Island Of Dreams, More Than You Know, Yesterday's Dreams, Pavements Of Paris and Crazy. Ann Parker was our next player with Yodelling Polka, Black Mask Waltz, Beautiful Days and Snow Waltz. It was Gerard Dawber's turn to play next. Gerard took to the stage and gave us Amazing Grace, Loch Lomond and British Grenadiers. Taking us up to the break, Bill Agnew played Alpine Slopes by Dermot O'Brien, Cuckoo Waltz, If You Love Me, The Harry Lime Theme, Come To Me My Melancholy Baby, Pretty Baby, It Takes A Worried Man, Orange Blossom Special and Donald Ian Rankin. After the break, we continued the music, starting with Rebecca Parker playing Moon River and The Swan. Tom Bennet was our next player, starting with The Clarinet Polka, then continuing with In The Mood, Amazing Grace, Whistling Rufus, Just A Closer Walk With Thee and to finish, The Old Rugged Cross.Taking us up to the second break was Bernard Belshaw playing Blaze Away, This Is My Song, El Cumbanchero, Tico Tico, True Love, Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen, Toreador from Carmen, Pigalle, That's Amore, Jealousy, Aint She Sweet, Ain't Misbehaving, Under The Bridges Of Paris and, finally, to take us to the second break of the evening, La Mer. I was the first player after the break, playing Sailors Hornpipe and Can't Help Falling In Love. Colin Ensor then returned for his second spot with I Won't Tell A Soul and Sweetheart Of All My Dreams. It was almost 11pm now and just time for Bill Agnew to finish the evening playing Sweet Georgia Brown, Georgia, It Had To Be You, Lover Come Back To Me, St. Louis Blues, Aint She Sweet, When Irish Eyes, Peggy O'Neil, Daisy Bell, Sweet Little Dickie Bird, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, I'll Be Your Sweetheart, You Are My Sunshine, Show Me The Way To Go Home and finally Goodnight Sweetheart. What a great night we had with some excellent playing from all that took part. We left the venue around 11.35 after plenty of after show social intercourse. David Batty
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New Accordion Book
For the last 18 months, Rob Howard has been working solidly on An A to Z of the Accordion, Volume 3, and I now know that this book has gone to print by the time you read this newsletter. Rob will have copies available in the first half of August and will be sending them out in August onwards. To give you an idea of the contents, there are articles such as Accordion Festivals Revisited; Accordion Tunings; Bal Musette; The Art of Busking; Irish Ceilidh Bands; Musical Heritage of Thomas Hardy; Roland Virtual Accordion; Scottish Dance Bands; Tales & Trivia, and Why Not Use Those Couplers? Biographies in the book include: Ronald Binge, Craig Bradley, Charles Camilleri, Lindsay Garvin, Jean Hanger, Kramer & Wolmer, John Leslie, Jean-Louis Noton, The Petulengros, and many more. Peter Ayers, Julie Best, Johnny Coleclough, Raymond Jones and Heather Smith have written their own stories specifically for the book. Brian Jenkins contributed Conducting, and there are archive articles, such as Pearl Fawcett-Adriano – Practising, Gerald Crossman - Memorising and Aural Training; Jack Emblow - Vocal Accompaniment, plus all sorts of other goodies. The price is £15 + £4 p/p, from Rob Howard, 42 Avondale Road, Edgeley, Stockport, SK3 9NY. Rob is taking advance orders for the book now by cheque at the above address.
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Our Website
Our Internet website has had 106,836 visitors as at 2nd July 2007, that's 444 visitors since last month. I am writing this newsletter less than 2 weeks after the last one so the figure is artificially low as it is only half a month. Last month I reported that we were having a problem with a person from the Ukraine sending junk messages to our noticeboard advertising lots of websites for drugs, etc. I managed to ring their Internet Service Provider in the Ukraine and I spoke to them about the problem. After showing the ISP the noticeboard I was told that they would sort it out for me, now the messages have stopped. We were getting one message an hour being posted advertising junk and drugs and it was putting other people off using the board. That is the first time we have had problems on the notice board since it was started several years ago.
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This Wednesday
This Wednesday we have a great concert by Barry Graham. Barry is making his debut as a guest artist and I am really looking forward to this event. I hope you can be there for what promises to be a great diversity of music. See you on Wednesday.... David Batty
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Steve Roxton DVD
Steve Roxton has released a new DVD called Around The World which features a wealth of material you would expect to hear at one of his concerts. The DVD is filmed with multiple cameras, is 70 minutes long, and has the following track list:- Under Paris Skies, En Avant, Little Old Wine Drinker Me, King Of The Road, Walk Right Back, March Des Accordionistes Lyonnais, Pigalle, La Seine, In Munchen Stet Ein Hofbrauhaus, Breudeline Drinking Song, Humbta Humbta Tatera, Beer Barrel Polka, When I Fall In Love, Volga Boatmen, Castachoc, Kalinka, Love Letters In The Sand, A Certain Smile, Crazy, Dancing Fingers, The Wild Rover, Peter Street, Island In The Sun, Brown Girl In The Ring, Kiss Me Honey Honey Kiss Me, The Twelfth Of Never, Jealousy, Can't help Falling In Love, The Wonder Of You, It's Now Or Never, Rock Around The Clock, Lara's Theme, Parade Of The Tin Soldiers, Le Denicheur and Reine De Musette. There is a good selection of music on this DVD which has obviously been filmed with Broadcast Quality cameras, there are also plenty of reeds to be heard which will please many people. The DVD can be ordered from Steve Roxton direct on www.steveroxton.co.uk, email steve@steveroxton.co.uk or telephone 01534 758392. The price is £8 plus £2 post and packing.
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Our Picnic/Concert
Our Annual Picnic Concert is to be held on Sunday the 29th of July 2007 at the usual venue of Hollins Farm, Hollins Lane, Leyland. This is a concert held in a field with all the cars parked facing the stage like a drive in movie. We have a curtain sided trailer as our stage, full amplification is provided for the players, and the stage is even carpeted! You bring along yourself, park your car with a view of the stage and bring a chair or blanket to sit and enjoy the concert. Most people bring along a picnic, some drink, cameras, their accordions and, most importantly, something to shade themselves from the sun like a hat. The normal start time is from 12 noon with no formal finish time but we usually play until about 8pm, but some people leave after a few hours if they have other engagements. This is a very informal affair, there is no admission charge, simply turn up and enjoy the concert, or, if you are a player who doesn't feel confident enough to play at the club, then bring along your accordion to play at the picnic, most of the time people are only half listening to the player, they are chatting amongst themselves and it's a very easy booking. I have included some photographs taken in previous years to give you an idea of the day. Apart from our first picnic in August 1999 we have had great weather, for every other picnic. That's one rainy day then seven years of good weather so given that run we have to expect another great day for our 2007 picnic. Don't forget to put this in your diary, bring along family friends, etc. and, if you get lost on the way, then telephone 07803 665403 for directions. I have marked the map on the back page of this newsletter with a big cross showing Hollins Lane. From The Priory Club leave the car park, turn right, take the second right (West Paddock), at the end turn right at the mini roundabout. Turn Left at the next roundabout on to Leyland Lane, at the next roundabout take the first exit continuing on Leyland Lane, Hollins Lane is about 1 minutes drive away on your right. Please bring along family and friends who might enjoy the day and don't forget to bring your accordion to give us a tune. I hope to have Stone The Crows dancers there if all goes to plan. Remember, Sunday 29th July 12 Noon onwards.
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