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Saulieu Cajun & Zydeco Music & Film Festival 2005,
Burgundy - France
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
The
12th Saulieu Cajun & Zydeco Music & Film Festival takes place
from August 5th to August 8th. This event is one of Europe's largest
Cajun and Zydeco festivals, involving artistes from four countries.
The guest list includes:
The Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band (USA), Dexter Ardoin and the Creole
Ramblers (USA), Lil' Jim and Deepzone Zydeco (UK), The Hackney Ramblers
(UK), The Zyderythmics (UK), Cajun Company (Netherlands), Blue Bayou
(France), Mousse Espagnole (France), Maman Roulaille (France), Grand
Prairie Special (France), Bayou Corneille (France)
For further
information email bayouprod@aol.com
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Renato
Borghetti's European Tour - Brazil
Contributed by Rob
Howard
 Renato
Borghetti and his band, whose speciality is the music of the Brazilian
gaúcho tradition, are to tour Europe during July. The tour
date details are: -
July 1st to 3rd Rudolstadt, Germany, Dance and Folk Ferstival
5th - Bremen, Germany, Schlachthof
6th- Berlin, Germany, UFA Fabrik
8th - Güssing, Austria, Kultursommer
10th - Guastalla, Italy, MUNDUS Festival
11th - Castelnuovo ne' Monti, Italy, MUNDUS Festival
12th - Rottofreno, Castello di Sandimento, Italy, Val Tidone Festival
13th - Izola, Slovenia, Mediteran Festival
14th - Agliana, PT, Italy, Rincao Gaucho
15th - Firenze, Italy, Festa dell'Unita
17th - Paris, France, La Villette
Born in 1963, Renato Borghetti is one of Brazil's leading accordionists,
with high record sales and a popularity that has taken him to many
other countries, including the United States. Borghetti's music
is influenced by jazz, samba, tango, polka and musette styles, and
he has modernised the folk music of the gaúcho tradition,
and made this genre popular with audiences everywhere he performs.
For further
information email cultureworks@aon.at
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Bernadette
Conlon Concert, Salt Lake City - USA
Contributed
by Jay Todd
 Bernadette
Conlon, Australia's Ambassador of the Accordion, performed her
first concert on a five-stop U.S. and Canadian tour to several standing
ovations, and encore-demanding, cheering audience at the Salt Lake
Area Accordion Club Tuesday June 21st.
Beginning with her rendition of Bach's 'Toccata in D', which she calls
'Hot Toccata', Bernadette worked her way through a variety of selections
from her eight CDs during the first set. Following a 10-minute intermission
during which time Bernadette was autographing her CDs for enthusiastic
new fans, she returned to the stage for a second set of audience requests.
She played everything from 'Poet and Peasant Overture' to Ukrainian
melodies to' Flight of the Bumble Bee' to' Beer Barrel Polka', before
ending with a stunning encore of 'Czardas'.
Jay Todd, Salt Lake Area Accordion Club president, said after the
cheering 117 attendees quietened down, "You are a legend in your
beloved Melbourne. Now you can claim Salt Lake City as your second
home! Enthusiasts hung around for nearly an hour as they acquired
her CDs and waited for autographs from the 'Pride of Australia'. We've
had a number of prominent American accordionists perform for our club,
but none has captured our audiences as did Bernadette with her skills,
aesthetic interpretations, and masterful performing."
The
Salt Lake Area Accordion Club, founded by Jay and Janet Todd, Janet
herself being an accordionist of national repute in the U.S., is in
its third year but already is one of the strong accordion clubs in
America. Arriving in Salt Lake City Sunday evening, June 19th, Bernadette
and her mother, Lyn flew to Seattle, Washington, where they motored
to Leavenworth for the Leavenworth Accordion Festival.
Following that stop, Bernadette will fly to Las Vegas, Nevada to perform
at the Las
Vegas International Accordion Convention, then fly to Victoria,
Canada to perform at an accordion club concert there, with a tour-ending
performance of their 23-day journey at Kimberley, British Columbia
for the Kimberley
Old Time Accordion Championships.
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Isle of Skye Accordion and Fiddle Festival, Scotland - UK
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
 The
inaugural Isle of Skye Accordion and Fiddle Festival, held from May
26th to 28th, was acclaimed by its organisers to be an unqualified
success. The festival was centred on the Royal Hotel, Portree, where
music sessions ran almost continuously throughout the weekend, involving
about 60 musicians, from far and wide.
The accordionists included Tom Orr and his Scottish Dance Band, the
Ballochmyle Ceilidh Band, Black Rose Ceilidh Band, Sam and James Stewart,
Alan Palmer, Lorraine Gillies, Edward MacLeod, Willie Shankie, Ian
Cameron, Marian Anderson, Charlie MacLeod, Geordie Wark, and Ian 'Tonkan'
MacDonald. Charlie MacLeod held an accordion workshop in the Skye
Gathering Hall.
A reviewer
has stated that the festival was "an exceptional weekend of traditional
Scottish music and dance. Moving from venue to venue, the same faces
would appear and disappear as the entire, toe tapping and convivial
population rotated from pub to pub, whether following their favourite
artiste or trying to hear as many different players as possible. At
one point in the Royal Hotel, eight accordionists, a drummer and a
keyboard player, from different parts of the country, were performing
together - what music!
The dance, in The Skye Gathering Hall, to the Ballochmyle Ceilidh
Band, proved to be a success beyond everyone's wildest expectations,
the atmosphere was out of this world, and everyone was on the floor
for every dance, teenagers and grannies alike. You could feel your
chair moving to the rhythm of the dance as the floorboards and joists
in the old hall got their best flexing in 20 years". The
committee is already planning next year's event.
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Concert at the Academy Salvatore Cauteruccio, Buonvicino
- Italy
Contributed
by Renzo
Ruggieri
The final event of a competition organised by the Academy Salvatore
Cauteruccio was a concert that took place on June 5th at the Salone
Della 'Casa San Ciriaco', Buonvicino. The competition jury consisted
of Riccardo Galimi, Enzo Campagna and Pietro Perrone.
The concert
was given by the students and teachers, after which a special award
was made to the best performing artiste, Adriana Cuateruccio, who received
big reception from a very large audience.
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Paris
- Moscow Duo in Ringe Festival, Odense - Denmark
Contributed by Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
 Domi
Emorine and Roman Jbanov, the Paris-Moscow Duo, made their debut
at the Ringe Festival, held from June 17th to 19th. The duo performed
several times, attracting large audiences.
This large-scale festival incorporates classical, jazz and folk music,
and the accordion featured prominently in the many concerts on offer.
Also performing at the festival was Scottish accordionist, Jim Easton
OBE, whose new CD 'Mellow Moments' has just been released.
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Accordion
Events at the Val Tidone Festival, Borgovono - Italy
Contributed
by Harley
Jones
This
year's Val Tidone Music Festival features five concerts involving
accordionists. All shows begin at 9.15pm. The details are:-
July 2nd - Calendasco, Guedo di Sigerico, French Music Night,
featuring Renzo Ruggieri and The French Touch Trio.
12th - Rottofreno, Castello di Santimento, featuring Renato
Borghetti and his Band (Brazil).
15th - Castel San Giovani, Piazza Cardinale Casonoli,
featuring a jazz program from the Soldedad Ensemble
(Belgium).
16th - Agazzano, Piazza Europa, featuring the Simone
Zanchini Jazz Project.
August 5th - Pecorama, Piazza Jacupo da Pecorama, featuring
Jean-Marc Fabiano (France) and the Aquzza Orchestra
'Luigi Cremona'.
For further information email info@valtidone-competitions.com
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Fairhead
Folk Festival, Northern Ireland - UK
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
The
second annual Fairhead Folk Festival takes place in Ballycastle,
County Antrim, from July 1st to 3rd. One of the festival's features
is a busking competition on July 2nd, from 2pm until 4pm, and open
to all musicians and singers.
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann has arranged that
local traditional musicians, including accordionists, will entertain
each day, from 4.30pm to 7pm. Instrument workshops, organised by
CCE, will take place on July 2nd, from 10am until 4pm in the Cross
& Passion Secondary School, Chapel Brea, Ballycastle. Sean O'Kane
will lead an accordion workshop, and the various instrument workshops
will entertain on an open stage from 4pm.
For further
information email divilthebit@hotmail.com
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Silvia Pagni has new contact information and contact details.
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A new site selling
a CD titled Christchurch
Accordion Orchestra of New Zealand, with sound samples. The orchestra
is conducted by Meg Fidler and performers include: Jun Norrell, Merle
Kershaw, Lynette Kelcher, Rosalie Taylor, Faye Lawrence, John Dooley,
Paula Turnbull, Ryan Hawes, Heather McCausland, Karl Barrett, Jill
Voss, Max Powell, Mark Perry, Bernie Holtmark-Vandijkerhof (drums),
Jack Joslen (bass). Purchase online.
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MusicForAccordion.com
is publishing a grade 2 arrangement of 'Sailing'.
The music is composed by Oyehuda
Oppenheimer. A sample of this music is available on the site.
The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer.
Purchase with credit card.
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MusicForAccordion.com is publishing a grade 2 arrangement of ‘Lady Of Spain’. A sample of this music is available on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit card.
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Sebastiano
Cali - accordionist, composer, piano tuner, harpsichord and other
early instruments maker, releases another 6
new works for accordion available for purchase online. 'Valse
Op.70 No. 2' (Chopin), 'Waltz in Ab' (Brahms), Prelude No. 1 from
Well Tempered Clavier' (J S Bach), 'Hungarian Dance No. 5' (Brahms),
'Air on the G String' (J S Bach), 'Adagio' (Albinoni), 'Tico Tico'
(Abreu). The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your
computer. Purchase with credit card.
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James
O' Brien - composer,
arranger and performer, releases another 6
new works for accordion available for purchase online. 'Fais Dodo
' (traditional), 'Folk Song' (traditional), 'Ghialo, Ghialo' (traditional),
'The Girl I Left Behind Me' (traditional), 'Home on the Range' (traditional),
'Julida Polka' (traditional). Samples of this music are available
on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to
your computer. Purchase with credit card.
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On
August 26th, 27th and 28th Dr. William Schimmel will present his
annual master class and concert series sponsored by the 
John
Kirkpatrick at Frome Festival, Somerset - UK
Accordionist
Marcel Loeffler and his Gypsy Family, including guitars and bass
guitar, perform a jazz concert at l'Abbaye de Noirlac, at St Amand
Montrond, on August 20th.
A
new