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Our October Meeting started with Kathryn Fowley making her debut playing Cuckoo Waltz, English Country Garden, Little Village In The Mountain and Serenade. Patrick Halpin was up next, Patrick played Red River Valley, McAlpines Fusiliers, Irish Lullaby and Stancil Hill. Our next player was Bernard Bamber who played Paper Roses, Scotland The Brave, On Top Of
Old Smoky, Lassie From Lancashire, Old Flames, In The Mood and Blackboard of My Heart. Ann Parker followed Bernard, Anne played Snow Waltz, Loveliest Night Of The Year, Beer Barrel Polka and Bel Viso. Andy Fitzpatrick was our next player. Andy was visiting from Southampton, he called at Leyland Club on the way to Scotland. Andy had brought his Roland accordion and he was happy to play for us. He started with La Vie En Rose, then moved on to play Que Sera Sera, Spanish Gypsy Dance, Happy
Wanderer, Besame Mucho, Wooden Heart and Smile. Michael Kristiansen played Pheigi A Gradh, Eilidh, Welcome to Skye, Loch Rannoch Lord Lovat’s Lament Flett From Flotta. Sara Daly played Woodstock, Kev’s Trip To Brittany, Those Were The Days, Ennikens Waltz. Our last stage player of the night was Colin Ensor who played Please Don’t Talk, More Than You Know, Island Of Dreams, Goodnight Irene, Sweetheart of all My Dreams and Charmaine. The lights then went up and the rest of the night was busy with lots of playing, discussions, tea and coffee being drunk and an accordion repair
happening. Our visitor from Southampton had plenty of people chatting to him during the night and there was a lot of activity in the room right up to 11pm.
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.
David Batty |
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We will
be meeting this Tuesday 15th of November. 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 15th. 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
15th November 2022
20th December 2022
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Castelfidardo Trip 2023 2nd-6th May 2023 |
A few weeks ago we were emailed to say there were a few spaces left on the trip organised by Peter Le Geyt. The cost of the package trip is between £628 - £695 depending on the type of accommodation you want, the cost is not including flights which you book yourself. The
package includes 4 night Hotel Accomodation, Breakfast Daily, Coach Transport Throughout, factory Visits, Places of Interest, Group dinner on the final night with entertainment, a selection of Accordions are provided to play during the 5 day stay and you are escorted throughout.
The trip includes visits to Factories to see accordions being built by hand. Musical Demonstrations at the factory showrooms. You will see how Reeds are
produced and how Bellows are made. There is a visit to the Carini Accordion Accessory Shop and a visit to the Castelfidardo Accordion Museum to try out the Largest Working Piano Accordion In The World.
Peter is using a local Travel Agent Tames Travel to handle the Payments.
To get booking information/forms contact Peter on plg@plgmarketing.com |
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We Swedish
man Linus Akesson has made two old Computers (Commordore 64s) into a working accordion, he used old Floppy Disks and tape to make the bellows for the “Commodordion”. Linus has made an 11 minute Youtube video showing how he made it and demonstrating it playing. It sounds great when he starts playing, especially if you have memories of Retro Computer Games music. Here is a link to
a Youtube video of the commodordion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBCYvoC4muc&t=472s Linus has also written about how we went about making it on his website https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php Linus has previously made a Commordore 64 into a theremin.
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At our
December meeting next month we will be having our usual Jacobs Join where we each bring a few sandwiches, nibbles or something similar to put on tables at the back of the room for all to sample. At our Christmas meeting we always have an open night were we encourage anyone to take to the stage, play any instrument or their party piece. If you play another instrument please bring
it along, if you want to do a monologue or something else then we look forward to it. |
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next
ONLINE meeting will be 7th December 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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