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Our August Meeting was a meeting of two halves, the first half was players on the stage, then
we moved on to a free for all (practice night) format. We started the night with Bernard Bamber playing My Wild Irish Rose, Lovely Rose Of Clare, Isle Of Innisfree, Mcalpines Fusiliers, Irish Eyes, Wild Rover, Galway Girl and In The Mood. Ann Parker then took to the stage and played Memories Are Made Of This, Beautiful Days, Frog Chorus, Snow Waltz and Loveliest Night Of The Year. Our next player was Alan Prescott, he started with Island In The Sun. then continued with Isle Of
Capri, Yellow Bird, Funiculi Funicular, Alexanders Rag Time Band, I Belong To Glasgow and finished with Northern Lights Of Old Aberdeen. Colin Ensor was up next, Colin played Please Don’t Talk, Greatest Mistake Of My Life, Pigalle, More Than You Know, That Lovely Weekend, Sands Of Kuwait and Charmaine. Our last stage player was
Sara Daly who gave us I Don’t Want to Set The World On Fire and Grandaughters Dream.
The
floor was then open for anyone to play anything in any part of the room, chat, drink coffee, repair accordions, swap tips, help each other with music etc.
The night ended at the usual 11pm when they came to lock the place up and we all went home happy to be able to meet up again and listen (and play) live music.
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We will
be meeting this Tuesday 20th of September. Doors open at 8pm with a hybrid meeting as usual. We will start with any players on the stage who want to play or practice playing to an audience, then we will move on to having the rest of the evening as
a Practice Night. This way we can cater for most people’s preferences in one night, if you prefer to play on stage please arrive sooner rather than later and we will get all stage performances done first. As usual there will be Tea and Coffee on sale at 20p a Cup. Please bring yourselves and your accordion if you have one. See you at 8pm on Tuesday 20th. David. |
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Our dates till
the end of the year are: 3rd Tuesdays of the month 8pm – 11pm
Our other nights up to the end of the year
20th September 2022
18th October 2022
15th November 2022
20th December
2022
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Blackpool based Accordionist Ken Astin who had been ill for quite a while, died at the end of August after a long battle with Cancer. Ken was a guest artist for us at the club. Kens day job was as a consultant in the gas industry (pipelines across the country (not cookers or fires)) and he was an organist at Blackpool Tower. Ken was a fine musician who played Organ, Accordion, Bass Guitar and Piano to professional standards. Ken used to own his own business Astin Acoustics as a supplier of Technics organs, keyboards, amplifiers and speaker systems. Ken was also a private pilot who flew for 1500 hours around the country with organist Phil Kelsall. You can listen to Ken playing at Leyland on the following link… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdOjf2IUNdY
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American Accordionist Weird Al Yankovic who found fame in
making Music Parodies on the Accordion has now had a film made about him. The Film has been described as “ a wildly satirical, highly nonfactual telling of Yankovic’s ascent from a geeky young accordionist to the beloved performer of hit songs like “My Bologna,” “Another One Rides the Bus” and “Eat It,” embellished with stories of sex, drugs and jungle combat that never really happened
to him.
“I hope this confuses a lot of people,” Yankovic said
of “Weird,” which he wrote with the film’s director, Eric Appel. “We want to lead them down a path and think, Is this a real biopic? Is this the real story? The movie starts out pretty normal. Then it progressively goes way off the rails.” Daniel Radcliffe who played Harry Potter in the Harry Potter Films is playing the younger Weird Al.
You can watch the Trailer for the film on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyYZOtAxYKY
The Film will be available to watch on the 4th November on the Roku Channel which you can watch if you have a Roku Stick, You can also watch it on Sky Q and NOW
TV.
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Why Pigini Accordions can cost almost £35,000 |
Business Insider have made an 8 Minute video on why Pigini Accordions can be so expensive.
Pigini’s most expensive accordion is at the record high price of almost 40,000 Euro’s (£35,000). The Mother of Pearl buttons on one side can cost 600 euro’s (£526). Pigini’s Cheapest Accordion is 2,000 Euro’s (£1,753). Visit the Business Insider website to watch the video of what goes into making a Pigini Accordion https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-pigini-accordions-so-expensive-2022-8?r=US&IR=T |
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next
ONLINE meeting will be 5th October starting at 8pm, we have an online catch up with local members and others from far and wide. This is held on Zoom. The night starts at 8pm and will be a chance to chat about accordions, find out what others have been up to, or even play a tune for us. Please share the link below with any
accordion folk who might be interested in joining us. The service we are paying for allows for up to 100 people to join in so we don’t have a limit on how many can use the link. If you want to chat about accordion stuff, listen to others play the accordion, or give us a tune then please join us. Simply click this link to Join our Zoom
Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82237487230?pwd=LzlLdC9RMCtkb1RMMmVoSXZVR0lMQT09
Meeting ID: 822 3748 7230
Passcode: accordion |
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