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Editors
Note
One of the news items this week is a about
a charity concert in Canada. Each year, large numbers of accordionists
donate their services to help charities with their performances. Art,
culture, giving of service, is an area of life, that accordionists
can be very proud of their contribution. Its all part of helping make
a better world.
Harley Jones
Acccordions Worldwide Director
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Folk
and Music Concerts of the World - Belgium
 The
Folk and Music Concerts of the World will be held on the 20th
February at St Gilles Peoples House, Brussels. The event is organized
by the Muziekpublique with the support of the Cultural Service
of Saint-Gilles and will feature a Queimada (traditional ball).
The Queimada evening is dedicated to traditional dance and music.
Over the years, the group Twalseree has succeeded in becoming
very well known. Ingrid Van Delden (diatonic accordion, flute,
song), with Jeremy Vervoort, Werner Alix, Fries Lefevere who sing
and play a variety of instruments. Other entertainment is by “E
Saquant Beyaus”, who have performed together for over 25
years. The group originates in  the
mysterious hills, famous for witches sabbaths, located near the
French border and Eastern Flanders. Group members Jean Marie Van
Coppenolle (accordion, bagpipes) with other instrumentalists,
Patrick Hanappier and Jean Jacques Poussol will involve you in
the magic of Queimada.
At midnight will come the magic moment of Queimada, when an ancestral
ritual drink of special water is drunk, to drive away bad spirits
and bad fate.
For further details email: info@muziekpublique.be
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Accordionist
José Maria Lopez Visit to Canary Islands - Spain
Contribute
by: Francisco J. Davila Dorta
José
Maria Lopez is the owner of a store "Dumboa Musical Comedy"
in Irún, Spain specializing in accordions and repairs, to the
region of Spain, Portugal and Southern France.
While having
a short vacation in Tenerife and the Canary Islands, he enjoyed meeting
other accordionists. Felipe Gadea who performs daily in the South
of Tenerife at the Beach Restaurant of the Américas, He also
visited the Bodegón "Francis and its Accordion" where
he conversed with the proprietor and met Gerald Rizza who performed
Basque songs magnificently.
He visited
the School of Accordion of the Musical Asocicación where he
knew the professor of accordion and many students. At the end of the
class, like all Fridays, music was united with good red wine and some
typical food to celibrate.
In spite
of the brief vacation Lopez had time to visit much of the main Island
including the National Park of Teide and to enjoy the beautiful scenery
as well as enjoy meeting many accordionists.
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Hommage
Joe Rossi “Magic Evening” - France
Contributed
by: Carole Gérard
 Frank
Hagège, editors of RDC Records and the 7 Music label is organizing
an important homage to Joe Rossi which will be held on the 7th, 8th,
& 9th April.
The event will feature several stars of accordion including Richard
Galliano, Frédéric Guérouet, Valérie Guérouet,
Georges Moustaki, Cora Vaucaire and Juliette Gréco.
“These
well known musicians have always respected and appreciated the music
of Joe Rossi. The musical quality, sensitivity and virtuosity make
his music true accordion artistry”..... Richard Galliano.
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Gala
Concert - Austria
Contributed
by: Hermine Kaleta
A Gala Concert will be taking place on the 29 of February at the
Konservatorium Wien. The featured guest artists will be the winners
of the previous VAMÖ Competitions held in recent years. The gala
concert will feature Julian Kabas, Nikolas Lazic, Lale Cabuk und Sebastian
Novak, Akkordeon-Trio "Bajan" und special guest Aydar Gaynullin
from Moscow.
Aydar Gaynullin was also the winner of the CIA Coupe Mondiale World
Accordion Championships in London in 2001. (Link to CIA site)
For further
details email: kaleta.hermi@aon.at
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Victor
Prieto “The Power of the Accordion” - USA
Contributed
by: Holda Poletti-Kampl
Victor
Prieto is currently leading 4 different projects, playing more the
20 gigs per month plus other collaborations and recording studio work.
An impressive performance schedule.
Victor
Prieto started his musical career at the age of nine and hails from
Spain where he earned a classical music diploma from the Music Conservatory
at Orense. In the USA he earned a degree in Accordion Performance
from the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is now making a music
career in New York. Click for a list of future performances.
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40th
Towersey Village Festival - United Kingdom
The
Towersey Village Festival is a wonderful family friendly festival
with a unique relaxed atmosphere. Whether you want to attend workshops,
dances or concerts from dawn to dusk or would rather spend time enjoying
the ‘easy’ Festival feeling or a bit of both, then Towersey
is the place for you. This year's festival runs from 26 to 30 August
and is part of the 40th Ruby Anniversary Celebrations
The events will feature some of the folk scene's top acts. Taking
the Arts Centre by storm will be Rory McLeod and Daily Planet.
On the concert stage will be Flook (pictured), Martin Simpson, Andy
Irvine, The Fagans, Malinky, The Demon Barbers, Doghouse Skiffle,
Steve Tilston, Folkestra North, David Francey and many others.
For all you dancers there is Florida, Bedlam, The Woodpecker Band
and others to get your pulses racing in the Dance Tent. For something
a little more genteel, head down to St Catherine's Church and back
to the 17th century with The Oxford Waits.
For further
details email: info@towerseyfestival.com
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The
Viennese Accordion Festival - Austria
Contributed
by Dr. Herbert
Scheibenreif, Manager of Friedrich
Lips Production
 The
Viennese Accordion Festival will take place from February 21 - March
21. The program of this year’s “Viennese Accordion Festival”
was announced at a press conference held in Vienna’s “Aktionsradius
Augarten”. Once again, all accordion genres are represented
in a diverse mixture of jazz, rock, chamber music and avant-garde:
Tango Nuevo, Musette, Volxmusik, Balkan, Klezmer, and others.
This
year's program attracts special attention to a cheerful optimistic
intermixing of the styles and individual artistic expression. The
accordion festival will open with Accordion Tribe, a most unusual
music project. The five musicians Guy Klucevsek (USA), Lars Holm
(Sweden), Maria Kalaniemi (Finland), Bratko Bibic (Slovenia) and
Otto Lechner (Austria) show how one can blow up existing music formats
and conquer new musical landscapes.
A festival
Club will open its doors for artists, music-lovers, visitors and
employees of the festival during the period of the festival. The
Club will not only be used for spontaneous sessions but also assure
close communications during the festival. Additional to the many
performances will be several workshops that will be held at Vienna’s
Technical Museum.
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Accordionist
Angel Nazlamov on Teaching Tour - USA
  In
March 2003, Angel Nazlamov (accordion) and Daniela Ivanova (choreographer)
were in the Eastern USA working with many groups. This year they are
returning again and will be in the Eastern USA in March, central USA
in April, and Western USA in June.
They are
available for dance parties, teaching, choreography and singing instruction.
They will be teaching Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian traditional
music and dances. The dates can be a little flexible depending on
organizers requirements.
For further details email: iveta@dandy.net
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Brave
Old World in Concert - Poland
 World-renowned
Brave Old World - home of the braves - has set new standards in
creating, performing and teaching Klezmer and New Jewish Music since
1989. Combining the soulfulness of Yiddish tradition, the finesse
of classical music and the vitality of jazz, the music of Brave
Old World is unique.
BOW will be entertaining at the 14th February Jewish Culture Festival
in Cracow, Poland. The group is led by Alan Bern (music director,
accordion, piano,) with Michael Alpert (voice, accordion, violin,
guitar, percussion), Stuart Brotman (bass, tsimbl, tilinca, percussion,
trombone), Christian Dawid (clarinet).
For further
details email: ffmusik@ffmusik.de
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This
is a carnival, a fiesta, an evening of joy in dance and movement,
music, entertainment, and an opportunity for all lovers of dance
to meet, mingle and mix.
Jamberooo
Valley Folk Music School - Auatralia