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| Leyland Accordion Club - 19th February 2003
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Our February ConcertOur opening performance in February was from Albert Draper playing Honeymoon March and O Sole Mio. After making some technical adjustments, Albert continued with Tesoro Mio Waltz, Carnival Of Venice and Bonnie Eloise. A man of few words, Albert saved them up, and continued with Cuckoo Waltz, Whispering Hope and Whistling Rufus. Our next player, Gordon Priestley, played Du Du Liegst Mir Im Hertzen, My Treasure, Vienna Forever, Sky Bird, West High March and Barbara Polka. Elaine was next to take to the stage, she took us up to the first break playing Fields Of Athenry, My Girls A Yorkshire Girl, Melody Moments, Maggie, Bunch Of Thyme, Mull Of Kintyre and The Wild Colonial Boy. After the first break we started with a surprise player, Harry Davies decided to make his debut at the club, starting with the ABBA tune Any Dream Will Do, then, courage in hand, went on to play Memories and a selection of German drinking songs. After he came off stage he said that it wasn't as bad as he had imagined. Well done Harry, we look forward to more contributions from you on future nights. After losing his spot in the running order to Harry, Tom had the honour of taking us up to the second break of the evening. He started off doing a Basil tune, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square. With 20 or so minutes to go to the break, we kept Tom going as he played White Cliffs Of Dover, Copelia Waltz from the ballet Sylvia, Moonlight Serenade, David Batty |
Summer EventsIf you have any thought of what you would like to do over the summer then please let me know. If you think that we should have a workshop, a weekend concert, a day out on a coach or anything else then let us know when you are at the club. If you can leave your suggestion on a piece of paper at the door I will collate them, look for something that seems to have a demand and see if we can organise it. It might be suggestions for two picnic days a year, a trip to ireland,organised visits to other clubs or something I can't think of, simply let me know. |
Our WebsiteOur internet website has had 56725 visitors as at the 16th of February 2003, that’s 415 visitors since last month. Don't worry about this low figure, I had to disconnect the counter for a couple of weeks while I did maintenance to the website, I have been adding a new bulletin board where people can post messages to the site, the old one was hosted on another company's computer and caused us to have to look at lots of adverts when we used the noticeboard. I decided to install my own board on my own webspace so that I have complete control of it. All the adverts are gone now and we should enjoy a better experience as a result. If you go on the website, please leave a message on the noticeboard if you are selling, buying or just saying hello to all accordonists |
Finland Accordion CruiseI know it's not on our doorstep, but I decide to put the following story in the newsletter because I was impressed with the turnout for the event.Almost 3,000 accordionists from all over Finland took part in an annual overnight cruise on the Silja Europa from Turku, Finland to Sweden and back, featuring non stop accordion music of many styles, including Finnish Folk Music and dancing, Cajun, Tex Mex, Jazz, accordion orchestras and ensembles, trade show displays of instruments, recordings and music, and an accordion competition. Accordion music was found all over the boat, including in the restaurants, hallways, bars, theatres, conference rooms, restaurants, and even over the intercom and on the TV. The standing room only audience watched the competition held at the Moulin Rouge Theatre, which serves as a selection process for a final competition to be held at the summer Ikaalinen Accordion Festival where finalists will compete in a televised show performing with a backing band and professional stage lighting. |
What's That SongIf you have a mobile phone from O2, Orange, T-Mobile (which probably includes Virgin) or Vodaphone then you can take advantage of a new service from Shazam. If you dial 2580 and point your mobile phone towards some music that is playing, after 30 seconds you will receive a text message telling you the name of the song and the artist or band singing/playing it. Full details of the service are on the company's website at www.shazam.com. I am not saying that the service will allow you to point your mobile phone at one of our players and find out what they are playing, especially as everyone plays a slightly different version of any tune. This service could, however, be very useful if you hear a commercial recording of a tune on the radio, on the loudspeakers in a restaurant or somewhere else and would like to play it, holding your phone towards the speakers will give you the title for a cost of around 50 to 60p.
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Accordion And Fiddle ChampionshipThe 29th Accordion and Fiddle Championships were held on March 1st in Musselburgh, near Edinburgh. The event was well supported with competitors taking part in Scottish music and classical accordion classes. Accordion adjudicators included Iain MacPhail and Alasdair McCuish.Winner of the Scottish Open solo and also the dance band section was Tom Orr from Lanark. Gary Blair junior (son of the well known Scottish accordionist) also achieved excellent results with several first places. Paul Chamberlain won the classical accordion sections for Polka, Open Solo, and Musette (playing one of his own compositions - "Neva"). |
Burwell Summer SchoolThe Burwell Summer School "Burwell Bash" will be held at Clifton Lodge in Kentford, Suffolk from August 5th to 9th organized by Stephen Bardwell. The piano accordion class will be tutored by Sam Pirt (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award Winner).The Burwell Bash is a residential folk music summer school which takes place annually and offers both instrumental and band tuition courses for young people and adults. The course has previously been known as the "Shetland Fiddle, Accordion, Flute and Whistle Course", and also the "Musical Madness" summer school. This year the course starts just one day after the Cambridge Folk Festival and will include a Folk Club night (play, sing, dance, juggle), a "One Night Stand Competition", a DIY Ceilidh, open, informal sessions, Tutors' concert, music-related quiz and musical Charades. For further details email: info@burwellbash.info |
The Houghton WeaversOn Sunday the 15th Of June, The Houghton Weavers will be performing at The Charter Theatre at The Guild Hall, Preston. Tickets for the evening are priced at £8.50 and £9.50. After the performance, some of their 24 albums will be on sale. |
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Bellows Buttons And Keys ClubThe next meeting of The Bellows Buttons And Keys Club is on Tuesday, the 1st of April 2003, at The Royal British Legion, opposite the bus terminal at Cleveleys. The club starts at 8pm and continues until 11pm. Telephone 01253 822046 for details.
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Guest Artist BookedI have booked Alexander Korbakov as our guest artist for May. For those of you who don't know him, Alexander is from Kamyshin on the river Volga. In 1980 he travelled to St. Petersburg to study at the Conservatoire where he continues to live and work in the city. He plays with the Russian State Concert Orchestra, with small ensembles and travels through Europe as a soloist. Alexander likes tunes 'with a melody' and transcribes music from the piano, violin, organ and voice to suit the accordion. He has broadcast on the BBC World Service and made several cassettes and CD's, his latest is due out in May. I have tried to get him at the club on various occasions but our nights have never coincided with one of his tours until this year.
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Death By AudienceI thought you might like to know about a new kind of Folk Club which started in Bacup at 8pm on the 7th February in the Swan Hotel Market Street/Newchurch Road Bacup. This will be known as The Swan Pan Club. It is a cross between The Wheel Tappers and Shunters and a Folk Club, with maximum audience participation. They will vote on each performance with a green plate for yes and a red plate for no. The MC has a bulb car horn which will be used to inform the audience and the performer if he or she has made the target of 2 out of 3 or, if there is a high no vote, the performer may be honked off and considered panned! Those are the basic rules of the club but there are more about how to become a resident (whatever that is), there is a club songbook (sounds like something organised, as in - you will play this), featured artists nights and theme nights. If you think you are up to it , want to find out more or want to drop in to see it in action then contact John Jacques on 01706 876362 or Bill Pearson (Will Scribble) on 01706 870412.
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This WednesdayWe have a great night to look forward to this Wednesday when we have the return of Julie Best. You will remember that she played for us a year ago when she came to the Club with Ron Hodgson. As well as playing duets with Ron Julie did play some solo pieces that night. This Wednesday you will enjoy a night of solo pieces from her. I have not sacked Ron, it's just that he is having an operation on his hand, I will make sure we book the pair of them in future when Ron's hand is better. In the meantime, don't miss this Wednesday and a chance to see Julie flying solo. |
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