We will be meeting this Tuesday 18th April. 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 see the stage performances first.   As usual there will be Tea and Coffee on sale at 20p a Cup.

See you at 8pm this Tuesday 18th April. 

David.

Our dates till the end of the year are:  3^rd Tuesdays of the month  8pm – 11pm

Our other nights up to the end of the year
18^th April 2023
16^th May 2023
20^th June 2023
18^th July 2023
15^th August 2023
19^th September 2023
17^th October 2023
21^st November 2023
19^th December 2023
 

Halsway Manor is the National Centre for Folk Arts, they are based in Somerset. Each year they have a variety of events on, here are a selection of a few that may be of interest to some of you.

Halsway DG melodion Weekend 19^th – 21^st May
Piano Accordion Weekend (Intermediate & Advanced) 30^th June – 2^nd July
Folk Summer School  28^th August – 1^st September
Melodeon Study Week  27^th November – 1^st December

For more information about any events and to see what else they do visit halswaymanor.org.uk

An Accordion Player is wanted to play on a self penned music track by a 14 year old girl called Matilda, this will be recorded in Morecambe on the 28^th April. There is no fee but her mother asked if anyone wanted to take part playing the accordion and get experience of being in a recording studio. Matilda puts videos out on Youtube and has added her music to Spotify. Here is a video of a Song about Fred Dibnah she wrote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99aIpU9O4f8    She also has a few tracks on spotify here https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Dmk4QRCs92hwO3gXBuqEV    If you think you would like to take part you can contact her Mother Jayne at matilda12@live.co.uk   

Direct from the West End and having sold out venues worldwide, Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners returns to The Atkinson in Southport for the 26^th & 27^th April 2023.

In partnership with Tourism Ireland and in association with legendary Irish pub O'Donoghue's, Seven Drunken Nights tells the story of a career spanning 50 years and invokes the spirit of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, John Sheahan, Ciaran Bourke and Jim McCann.

This hugely talented cast of musicians and singers bring the music of this iconic group back to life and will have you singing and dancing in the aisles.

It is without doubt the ultimate feel good Irish show.

Tickets for the show can be bought here. https://www.theatkinson.co.uk/events/seven-drunken-nights/

Although not accordion programme I thought the music on The Alehouse Sessions might be of interest. This programme is on  Sunday 23rd April 2023, on BBC4 from 9pm to 10pm. The programme features Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike and his music group Barokksolistene presenting a celebration of 17th-century folk music, fiddle tunes, drinking songs, sea shanties and pieces by Purcell and Playford, filmed in one of London's oldest taverns, the George Inn, Southwark.

The next ONLINE meeting will be 3rd May 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 3rd May.

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.