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Our December Meeting was our Christmas Jacobs Join night. This is where we all brought some food, snacks or something to contribute to a Christmas get together meal. While the food was being laid out we started with our first player of the night Colin Ensor who played Please Don’t Talk, Try A Little Tenderness, I’ll String Along With You, More Than You
Know, Sailing By (This is the tune played before the shipping forecast on Radio 4), Dark Island, Sweetheart Of All My Dreams and Charmaine. The food was ready now and we started to tuck in while our next player Bernard Belshaw on Keyboard played Night and Day, That’s Why The Lady Is A Tramp, Ave Maria and Autumn Leaves. The stage was open for our next player Harvey on accordion played Mexican Hat Dance, Snow Waltz, Sloop John B, Delilah, Silent Night
and Oh Lonesome Me. Bernard Bamber was up next playing Jingle Bells, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, I saw Mummy Kissing Santa Clause, Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, The First Noel, Walking In A Winter Wonderland, White Christmas and In The Mood. Michael Kristiansen then took his turn on stage playing Welcome Christmas Morning, Dr J G Hunter Of Aultbea, The Meeting Of The Waters and Wee Tod. Andrew Baker who used to live nearby was visiting from his new home in Anglesey. Andrew had brought his banjo on which he played Home On The Range, South Of The Border, Silent Night and When I Saw Her Standing There. Ann Parker was up next on the accordion playing Woodland Fantasia, Beer Barrel Polka, Snow Waltz and Loveliest Night Of The Year. Bernard Belshaw then returned to the stage and played
his keyboard which he had set up earlier, he was also joined by Harvey on Melodica, Trumpet and Banjolele and Andrew Baker on Banjo. This trio played Ain’t She Sweet, Putting On The Style, Has Anybody Seen My Girl, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, White Christmas, Have yourself A Merry Little Christmas and Sunshine Of Your Smile
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.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Jacobs Join and to those who played and made the night so enjoyable.
A Black Marks and Spencer’s bag was left at the meeting, if this was yours, we will have it at the next meeting.
David Batty |
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We will
be meeting this Tuesday 17th of January. 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. See you at 8pm on Tuesday 17th. 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
17th January 2023
21st February 2023
21st March 2023
18th April 2023
16th May 2023
20th June 2023
18th July 2023
15th August 2023
19th September 2023
17th October 2023
21st November 2023
19th December 2023
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Largest Accordion Collection In The World |
This is a video showing around an accordion museum that has 1500 accordions. The link was shared by Michael at our last meeting. I recommend you mute the sound until 7 minutes 53 seconds, then turn it up until 8 minutes 33. You can turn it back up again at 13.23 for some familiar
accordion music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgh2qla7QlA
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Eastbourne Accordion Festival |
This will be held from the 3rd to the 6th of February 2023 at the Queens Hotel, Eastbourne. The cost is £295 per person This years artists are Harry Hussey, Robin Johnstone Hyland, Jonny Kerry, Roman Voloshchuk, , Gary Blair, Rosemary Wright, Nigel Pasby, Helen Newton and the Kennet Accordion Orchestra. The Teachers attending are Sammie Peckover, Jean Hanger, Angie Lukins, Nigel Pasby and
Gennaro Fiondella. If you’d like to book or for more information email
cgffestivals@gmail.com |
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The
Love Folk Festival is taking place at the Atkinson in Southport on the 10th and 11th February. The lineup for this years festival is: Katie Spencer, Bonfire Radicals, Jim Moray, Calum Gilligan, The Rheingans Sisters, Jenny Colquitt, Greenman Rising, The Gigspanner Big Band (six piece), Fatea Industry Workshop, John Reed, Serious Sam Barrett, Frankie Archer and Good Habits. Festival Tickets cost £48 and can be booked online: https://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/love-folk-fest-2023/
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next ONLINE meeting will be 1st February 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. If you want to chat about accordion stuff, listen to others play the accordion, or give us a tune then please join us. I will send out a reminder for anyone who forgets the meeting is on, but the meeting will be on, and here is the main announcement of
it. We did have a number of us on the last meeting and we had a great range of music being played and lots of chat about various pieces of music. Simply click this link to Join our Zoom Meeting at 8pm on the 1st February. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82237487230?pwd=LzlLdC9RMCtkb1RMMmVoSXZVR0lMQT09
Meeting ID: 822 3748 7230
Passcode: accordion The link above is the same for every online meeting we have, it doesn’t change from
month to month. You can test your computer works with the link at any time. If you get a message saying you are waiting for a host to let you in, or something similar, then your computer is set up correctly to join the meeting on the correct dates/times. |
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