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62nd
Annual ATG Competition and Festival - USA
 The
62nd Annual
ATG Competition and Festival will be held at the Sheraton Safari
Hotel in Orlando, Florida from June 27th to 30th. This year's event
will feature guest artists Myron Floren and Frederic Baldo (France)
and Myron will also conduct the festival orchestra. In addition
there will be workshops, entertainment, displays, performance opportunities,
awards and trade show displays.
The festival will also include a variety of
competition categories including the US National Championship, Junior
US National Championship, ATG Virtuoso category, ATG Junior Virtuoso
category, Piano Accordion division, plus polka, pop, original, standard,
championship, evaluation, duet, combo, ensemble and adult hobby
solo & duet classes. For further details email: sommersj@umkc.edu
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2nd International Accordion Music
Festival Koszalin 2002 - Poland
Contributed by Dr
Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich
Lips Productions
The 2nd International Accordion Music Festival
Koszalin will take place from September 19th to 22nd in Koszalin
organized by the Local Culture Centre of Koszalin and the "Akord"
Accordion Band and promoted by the Miejski Osrodek Kultury.
The aim of the event is to present the accordion
as a band instrument, to introduce this form of making music, to
integrate accordion societies and to exchange experiences and repertoires.
In addition the accordion will be shown as an instrument which can
present different types of music such as jazz, classic and others.
Although the accordion is the feature instrument, other instruments
will be allowed for accompaniment. The festival will also include
a massed accordion orchestra performance.
Although the event is not a competition, there
will still be a jury that will consist of instructors that will
also be festival competitors. The Jury, guided by the main adviser,
will consider the following criteria: selection of repertoire, interpretation
of music formations, standard of band's artistic experience, discipline
of band and general artistic outlook, technique of presentation.
The best bands will receive diplomas and souvenirs sponsored by
the promoters.
Applications close this month. For further details
email the Artistic operator of the festival, Artur Zajkowski at:
fzma@poczta.onet.pl
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Accordion Awareness Month - USA
June is National Accordion Awareness Month.
The event was established in 1989 to promote the accordion, help
spread the word about the resurgence in popularity of the accordion
and to educate people about the accordion.
To help celebrate, there will be a special "Day
of the Accordion" in San Francisco scheduled for June 16th at the
historic Cannery at Fisherman's Wharf. In addition, RootsWorld have
an online free-reed music festival featuring accordion music from
all over the world. (See item later in this news edition).
For more information about National Accordion
Awareness Month phone: +1 415 440-0800
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Accordionist Performs on Stage
Show & Radio Show - France
 Contributed
by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
Accordionist Pascal
Contet will perform in a show which includes circus performers,
actors, children, a rap dancer and four other musicians from June
17th to 22nd. "Mur-Murs" is directed by Gilles Zepfel and will be
held at the Atelier du Plateau.
On June 19th Contet will perform on a live Radio
France program in Paris, hosted by Anne Montaron. His program will
include improvisations with Christophe Marguet (new generation drummer)
in Studio 106 de la Maison de la Radio in Paris. The show will be
aired on June 30th at 7pm on the France Musiques channel. For further
details email: pascalcontet@wanadoo.fr
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Korbakov Performs to Capacity Crowds
- England
  Contributed
by Mike O'Regan
A capacity crowd in the Village Centre, Rothley, Leicestershire
enjoyed a wonderful three hour concert of classical and Russian folk music
by bayanist Alexander Korbakov recently. Alexander was supported by the
Burton-on-Trent Accordion Band (MD Stan Schofield), which is unusual (in
the UK) in that 12 of the 15 players are female.
Alexander's program included "Turkish Rondo" (Mozart),
"Grande Valse Brillante", op. 18. (Chopin), "Tritsch Tratsch Polka (Strauss)
and "Sabre Dance" (Khachaturian). The Accordion Band played a variety
of pieces such as Medley from "My Fair Lady", "Blue Tango", "Moonlight
Serenade", finishing with an old-time sing-a-long medley.
 Korbakov
was also the guest artist at the June meeting of "Les Amis de l'Accordeon
de Jersey" in Jersey, Channel Isles, where he gave a popular concert which
featured both classical works and Russian traditional music. He was invited
to perform at this event by professional accordionist Steve Roxton and
his wife Maggie, who run the accordion club. At the conclusion of the
concert, members were treated to a duet by Steve and Alexander when they
played "Sakkijarven Polka".
Both men are enjoying huge success in their separate
fields. Alexander is continuing with his English and Irish tour through
to June 21st. For further Korbakov concert details phone: +44 1564 776376
Steve is to take a break from entertaining Jersey holiday makers. On July
13th he will entertain French crowds on the winning line of the famous
cycle race "The Tour de France" as it enters the Normandy town of Avranches.
An event with massive media coverage.
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5th Annual RootsWorld Free Reed
Festival
Contributed by Cliff Furnald
The 5th Annual RootsWorld Free Reed Festival
began on June 8th in conjunction with Accordion Awareness Month.
The festival began with performances of new music by Guy Klucevsek,
Amy Denio and Afroscania Mix. Portuguese accordion quartet "Danças
Ocultas" presented "Escalada", which was recorded live at a concert
in Bordeaux, France on April 12th, 2002. This piece was composed
by band member Artur Fernandes.
The festival also included a feature review
of a remarkable work by Italian composers/musicians Gianluigi Trovesi
(clarinet) and Gianni
Coscia (accordion) with a song from their ECM recording In Cerca
Di Cibo, "Celebre Mazurka Alterata" co-composed by the musicians.
For further festival details email: freereed@rootsworld.com
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Accordionist Releases 4th CD - Australia
 Contributed
by Peter Piccini
Accordionist Cathie Travers has just released her
4th CD entitled "Avant GRASS". The CD includes a mix of tracks featuring
the accordion. Cathy also plays synths/sampler and acoustic guitar on
the album. Tracks include "Renaissance", "Random Heavens" and "Latin Flutes".
For further details email: piccini@bigpond.com
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An
accordion and piano evening was held recently at the Concert Hall
"A. Bergamas" in Gradisca, Gorizia organized by the "Rodolfo Lipizer"
Association. Performers "Duo Zubitsky" entertained with a program
of original music and transcriptions for accordion and piano by
The
"New Orleans by the Bay" Food and Music Festival will be held on
June 22nd and 23rd at the Shoreline Ampitheatre, Mountain View in
California. Accordionist 
Open
Air Concert - Netherlands
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Concordeon International Joinville Accordion Concert - Brazil
Contributed
by Edmund Schwarz