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Fisarmonica Festival, Eastbourne - GB
Di Rob
Howard
 L'
Eastbourne Fisarmoica Festival avrà luogo dal 17 fino al
20 Febbraio 2006. L'organizzatore John Romero, commenta:- "Quatro
giorni di musica indimenticabili che soltanto fisarmonicisti sanno
fare. Il nostro programma include artisti come: Andy Anderson, Gary
Blair, Paul
Chamberlain, Sue
Coppard, Gennaro Fiondella, Harry Hussey, Lisa Lee Leslie, John
Romero, Romano Viazzani e Charlie Watkins.
Supporto tecnico di Trevani Studios, Electronic Accordions Ltd e
WEM. Stan Mayhew sarà disponibile per l'accordatura di fisarmoniche.
Per il weekend sono previste lezioni e tutti I visitatori sono invitati
di portare con se le loro fisarmoniche per poi partecipare in un
concerto per ospiti". Il Festival si svolgerà
al Cumberland Hotel d'Eastbourne. Siete pregati di prenotare in
tempo i vostri posti nell' albergo.
Per informazioni
e-mail jr@carillonstudios.co.uk
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Carrefour Mondial de l'Accordeon, Quebec - Canada
Contributed by Rob
Howard
 Scottish
accordionist Gary Blair sent the following report on the recent
Carrefour Mondial de l'Accordeon, held in Canada:-
"Having
lost my accordion on travelling, it was a relief when it arrived
a matter of hours before my first performance. For me, the festival
was an outstanding success. There were accordionists from around
the world. Scotland, England, France, Italy, South America and,
of course, Canada were represented. Throughout Montmagny, there
were different stages and most performers played at least 4 or 5
times during the weekend. A huge crowd was present at the Mayor's
Park in the center of town.
Some of the performers present included Gary Blair, Frederic
Vigneau and Chris Parkinson".
Baldo, Giancarlo Caporrilli, Frederic Langlais, Sam Garcia, Mickaël
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Festival del 25° Anniversario, Geiranger - Norvegia
Di Holda
Paoletti-Kampl
 Domi
Emorine and Roman Jbanov, known as the Paris-Moscow Duo hanno
partecipateo al Belgiaden I Geiranger Fisarmonica Festival e ci hanno
furnito con I seguenti informazioni:-
"The host Ørskog
Accordion Club celebrated 25 years with a festival in Geiranger this
year. During the weekend the audience could see and hear 6 concerts
and dances. The mood was great, and both professional and amateur
performers were on the stages. Belgiaden I Geiranger has been a success
from the first festival in 1980 when Ebbe Jularbo and Lennart Wärmell
were performers. This year the young recruits showed us that we will
also be hearing accordion music in the future.
Every year big names from all over Scandinavia have visited the festival.
This year the host had invited Domi Emorine from France and Roman
Jbanov from Russia. They played both solo and duets and received massive
applause. The audience was thrilled listening to a mix of classical
music, folk tunes and French variety music. The artistes communicated
in Russian, French, English and Norwegian!
The hosts had also their own contributors in the program.
The Junior Orchestra and the Club Orchestra were both on the stage
several times, with Knut Ivar Bøe as conductor. Also performing
were the youth group 'Optirock', Ingrid G. Hellen, and Oda K. Stenberg,
from Vestnes, and Miquel and Daniel Falcón from Engesetdal.
Another local artiste was Kristina B. Farstad, who also played solo
with the club's own orchestra. Linda Gytri and Vidar Skrede played
traditional folk music. The concert opened with Carl Jularbo's 'Life
in the Finland Woods', in which almost every accordion player present
participated. From Sweden, the famous accordionist Alf Hågedal
was successful both as concert player and as a dance musician.
This
festival was a great artistic and commercial success".
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Young Accordionist's Success at International Eisteddfod, Wales
- UK
Contributed by Rob
Howard
 Faye
Ventre, aged 12, from Sawbridgeworth in England, recently achieved
great success being placed 2nd in the Under 16 Instrumental Solo
section at the 59th Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod. Faye,
a pupil of accordion teacher Stella Hughes, played a Bayan button
accordion, and competed against instrumentalists from many other
countries to reach the final.
In the
final, which was televised by Sky Television and BBC Wales, Faye
played two contrasting pieces from the 'Children's Suite No 1',
by Wladislaw Solotarjow. Competing against players of the cello,
violin, clarinet and piano, the adjudicators praised Faye for the
maturity, musicality and sensitivity of her playing.
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Festivals Acadiens, Louisiana - USA
Contributed by Rob
Howard
 The
annual Festivals Acadiens takes place from September 16th to 18th,
at Girard Park and Downtown in Lafayette. This large scale Cajun festival
involves such accordionists as Ray Abshire (picture right), Wayne
Toups, (picture far right) Jeffery Broussard and DL Menard, plus many
other musicians and bands.
The festival
is in the State of Louisiana, which has, of course, been badly affected
by Hurricane Katrina. One consequence is that hotel accommodation
is scarce due the re-location of people made homeless.
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Poozies
October Tour - UK
Contributed
by Christine
Adams
 The
all-female folk band The Poozies, featuring Karen Tweed on accordion,
tour concert venues around the British Isles in October and November.
The dates and venues are;-
October
19th
- Lakeside, Nottingham
20th - Courthouse, Otley, West Yorkshire
21st - Courtyard, Hereford
22nd - Village Hall, Llandinam, Wales
23rd - Musicport Festival, Whitby
24th - Rosehill Theatre, Whitehaven
25th - Tollbooth, Stirling
26th - Queen's Hall, Hexam
27th - Playhouse, Alnwick
28th - Arts Centre, Southport
29th - Centenary Hall, Peel, Isle of Man
30th - Norwegian Church, Cardiff, Wales
31st - Arts Center, Dartington
November
1st - 'Folk in the Fall', Purcell Room, London
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Douglas
Ward releases three arrangements of 'Abacus',
'Coming
Home', and 'Serenity'.
Samples of the music are available online. The music is in eSheet
format, able to be emailed to your computer. Purchase with credit
card.
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Gary
Dahl's site is updated to include full length .mp3 sound files
of music from 3 of his popular books. Please visit www.accordions.com/garydahl
to enjoy these varied samples of music.
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Tex-Mex
fisarmonicista Flaco Jimenez parteciperà in concerto il 25
Settembre nel Alamo Stadium in San Antonio. Il ricavo degli incassi
andrà alle vittime della catastrofe causata dell'uragano
Katrina. Al concerto parteciperanno inoltre musicisti specialisti
del Cajun, Blues, Rock, Country/Western e Mariarchi.
Il
duo Fisarmonica/Cello con il Professore 
La
Trinity Guildhall ha introdotto un nuovo corso per fisarmonica .
Vengono offerte classi con esami dal 1° al 8° livello che
prevedono un Primo Concerto e Performance Certificato che possono
essere preparati sia in GB che in USA. Il nuovo programma include
fisarmoniche a bassi sciolti e stradella bass con un repertorio
separato per i due.
Nuova
critica