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Leyland Accordion Club - 21st January 2009
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Our January ConcertOur January concert started with Colin Ensor playing Please, Pigalle, Secondary Waltz and Sweetheart Of All My Dreams. Ann Parker was our next player, she played played Yodelling Polka, Sazmba Fantasia and Bel Viso. Bernard Belshaw then took to the stage playing You Make Me Feel So Young, Moonlight Serenade and Blaze Away. Our next player was our guest artist David Vernon. It had been a while since we had seen David at the club so we were looking forward to his return. We were not to be disappointed. He started his first session with Midnight Waltz, The Balmoral Highlanders and a tune he wrote called Greenbank Hornpipe. He continued the entertainment with Sweet Biddy Daly, Blackthorn Stick and Cambridge Hornpipe. A change of style brought us Helse Dem Der Hemma, Wildforest Flower Waltz, Sakkiaven Polka and Vigan. His next piece was The Roulette Wheel, a tune that involved a lot of arpegios. Things slowed down for The Dark Island, Excelsior, Wallie Lawsons Waltz and John Stephen Waltz, It was almost time for the break, so David finished his first half with The Wind That Shakes The Piggery, Donald Ian Rankin, Jeans Reel and Jaqueline Waltz. After the break, I started off the second half of the evening with Triste Sourire before leaving the stage for David to start his second spot of the evening. His first tune was Cuckoo Waltz, this was followed by a Jewish medley consisting of Jerusalem Of Gold, Zemir Atik, Alseryelt and Frailach No 12. We had a change of pace with The Firefly Waltz followed by Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Dixie, Yellow Rose Of Texas, Doo Dah, Orange Blossom Special and The Lone Ranger. It was then back to the Scottish music with a selection of Robbie Burns tunes including My Love Is A Like A Red Rose and Ye Banks and Braes. It was getting near to the end of the night as David changed to a selection of accordion favourites including Dancing Fingers, Happy Hours Polka and Bel Viso. After wishing everyone a safe journey home, David ended his spot with a Scottish medley of The Athole Highlanders, Staten Island, Flowers Of Edinburgh, Auld Land Syne. There were calls for more as David took his applause, so he ended up finishing with The High Level Hornpipe. David had been selling his new CD during the evening, we may have mentioned this once or twice. At the end of the night he had just had an empty case which had once been full of CD's, he had sold out. He promised to return to Leyland and I know we look forward to his return.David Batty |
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Audrey DaviesAudrey Davies, wife of Harry Davies, sadly died recently, her funeral was held on the Monday before Christmas. There were over 100 people in attendance including many from the club. Harry has asked me to thank all those people who heard the news, and, as a result, sent best wishes or attended the funeral.
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This Wednesday
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Accordion Shop WebsiteWe have just released a new website at www.accordionshop.com. This website sells CDs, DVDs, Sheet Music Books, Second Hand Accordions or related items at affordable prices. The website has only been going a week but it already has recordings of Fintan Stanley, Steve Roxton, Calum McKinnon, Colin Ensor, John MacDonald, Sue Coppard and Tom Alexander on there. I have contacted more artists who are looking to have their products on the site. I aim to offer CDs of our guest artists on the site in future. This means that you will easily be able to find their products if you missed buying one after one of our concerts. The first of these artists have not yet played for us but they will be featured in the shop this month, they are the Kyiv Duo mentioned below...
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The Kyiv Accordion DuoI have booked The Kyiv Duo as our guest artists on 15th of July. Although they live in Ukraine, they are in England in July raising money for the children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The group Hippokrat is a society of mothers and disabled children in the Chernov region of the Ukraine. It was founded in 1996. Chernigiv is 70km from the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. There are at least 1,000 invalid children in Chernigiv which has a total population of 350,000 and those children, unfortunately, get little help from the State. Hippokrat aims to provide the families of the disabled children with food and medicine. The Kyiv Duo (Oleksiy Kolomoiets and Igor Sayenko) are both students at the National Music Academy of Ukraine. They both began there in 2001 and have performed together since then, as 'Kyiv Duo Classic'. This doesn't mean that they perform only classical music, but their repertoire includes Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov as well as traditional Ukrainian and Russian music. I have heard many of their pieces and they do play some really nice light classics and folk tunes. See them in July... |
Calum McKinnon DVD and CDNew Calum McKinnon DVD and CDs have just been released this week. The DVD features 1 hour and 20 minutes of non stop singalong tunes from Calum playing at Leyland Accordion Club. This was filmed at Leyland, then it was edited into a DVD and accompanying CD soundtrack for Calum to sell when he is playing in the hotels. The CD is the soundtrack taken from the DVD for anyone who does not have a DVD player. We will have copies at the club on Wednesday if you are interested. We have not seen Calum at the club for a while so its probably about time we had his return. We are booked up this year so I'll see about getting him next year.
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Organ, Keyboard and Accordion HolidaysAlan Venn is holding a special 21st Year Celebration Event on the 21st to the 24th of April 2009 at The Annan Hotel in Llandudno.
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Accordion For SaleAlan Young is selling a Galanti Super Dominator, this is a Double Cassotto in good condition for £1375. Telephone Alan on 01983 616240.
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The Worlds Largest AccordionA few months ago we wrote about the worlds largest accordion. We are writing about it again because they are looking for accordion players or anyone who can read music and perhaps play the piano, to assist with a project by artist Ruth Ewan, who is taking part in the Triennial exhibition at Tate Britain, a gallery situated at Millbank in London. Ewan takes as her focus the history of protest and activism.
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Alan's Gardening and Music BreaksAlan Venn who is well know for his Organ, Keyboard and Accordion events has released his schedule for his next gardening holidays. These are to be held on Friday 24th - Sunday 26th April 2009 and Friday 9th - Sunday 11th October 2009 at The Annan Hotel, Llandudno. This is Alan Venn’s Description of the Event “Peter Foley, who is a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio Lancashire’s Gardening programmes, is the guest speaker arranged for these two events. He was awarded an RHS Silver Gilt award for his garden design at the recent RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park in July 2008. These 2 events will include a visit to the famous Bodnant Garden in the Conwy Valley with Peter as our guide. These holidays will include some musical entertainment in addition to the full programme of gardening activities. More details are included in the August 2008 Garden Services & Holidays Newsletter produced each quarter by Alan Venn. Contact Alan Venn on 01204 840279 for more details
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Accordions For SaleBlack Scandalli Custom Built Model. This accordion has 9 treble couplers with 2 repeats, 2 bass couplers, 41 Keys and 120 Bass buttons. This accordion has just had a full stripdown and retuning at Birmingham Accordion Centre. The only reason for sale is that I am upgrading to a five voice model which only went on sale AFTER I had had this one stripped and tuned. £450 Photographs of these accordions can be found on the internet website www.accordionshop.com or Telephone David on 01772 454328 |
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