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14th
Annual New Orleans by the Bay Festival - USA
  The
14th Annual New Orleans by the Bay Festival was held in perfect
weather, which encouraged over 15,000 people to attend the event
at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View, California on June
22nd and 23rd.
Performers included accordionist Jon
Hammond who entertained with a 50 minute set each day with his
group "Jon Hammond's Late Rent Session Men". Their program included
original compositions "White Onions", Pocket Funk and Jon's tribute
to the September 11th New York disaster (a medley of America The
Beautiful and Get Back In The Groove) dedicated to those who were
lost or suffered.
An event highlight were a group of musicians
from South Africa, which included keyboardist Patrick Mthimkhulu
with whom Jon plans to collaborate with in the future. He has begun
plans to feature the group on his TV show in New York.
The festival, which was produced by Mick Brigden
also included a variety of other entertainment, a gala Mardis Gras
Parade each day, cooking demonstrations, and children's events.
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14th Haapavesi Folk Festival -
Finland
 Accordionist
Karen Tweed performed with Timo Alakotila at the 14th Haapavesi
Folk Festival held in Haapavesi, Finland from June 27th to 30th.
Karen also tutored at the festival, which aims to combine folk music
with atmospheric church concerts, jazz, children's music, dance
and theatre. The event included a variety of entertainment by performers
from England, Ireland, Russia, Egypt, Italy, France, Basque, Estonia,
Latvia, Argentina and Sweden.
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Café Tortoni Concerts - Argentina
Contributed by Norberto Vogel
Quinteto Tipico, which includes Adrian Sanchez (bandoneon)
will perform a number of concerts at the Café Tortoni in Buenos Aires
this month. Their first performance will be on July 5th with further concerts
on July 13th, 20th and 26th. Their program includes a variety of classical
tango pieces. For further details email: norbi@vogel.com.ar
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Bandoneonist Passes Away
 Contributed
by Jon Hammond
Bandoneonist Dale Meyer passed away on June 22nd after
a heart attack at the age of only 54. Dale led the groups "Parlando" and
"Strictly Tango" and had a motorcycle accident a few years ago. His groups
performed regularly in the USA with a program of popular Argentine tango
tunes such as "La Cumparsita", El Choclo", Milonga de mis Amores" and
La Puñalada" as well as original compositions and pieces by Astor Piazzolla
such as Verano Porteño, Libertango, La murerte del Angel and Oblivion.
He was a very kind and gifted musician.
A memorial was held for Dale in Golden Gate Park and
his ashes will be scattered at sea on August 29th with many of his friends
and musicians in attendance. There will be music played and his latest
recordings will be released with the addition of Mia Jacobson singing
in Argentinean dialect on the Tango compositions.
Dale's last performance was at The Cannery in San
Francisco on June 16th and the above photo was taken at that concert.
We have included a listing in the Memorials
section of Accordions
Worldwide.
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Contributed
by Emil Genov
"Samovar"
performed at the Festa provinciale di Liberazione in Brescia on
June 24th. The group, which includesDade Bonetti (accordion), Daniela
Savoldi (cello), Eva Feudo Shoo (guitar) and Aldo Bicelli (percussion)
offer a musical menu of specialities from unusual regions, consisting
of own compositions alongside pieces belonging to a genre which
is difficult to label, close to what is referred to as "World Music".
Duo
Contributed
by 
Accordionist
Contributed
by Jutta Menn