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Our June Meeting started at 8pm with David Rigby playing My Wild Irish Rose, Que Sera Sera, Good Old Summertime, Daisy, Beautiful Dreamer, The Spinning Wheel, Irish Rover, Mountains Of Mourne, My Bonnie, Highland Cathedral, The Old Rugged Cross and Now Is The Hour. Our next player was Ann Parker who played Snow Waltz, Loveliest Night Of The Year, Beer
Barrel Polka and Frog Chorus. Sara Daly then took to the stage, she started with a favourite of mine The Marino Waltz, then went on to play The Lovers Waltz and El Chocolo. Our next player was Colin Ensor who played Cruising Down The River, Somewhere My Love, The Town I Loved So Well, Crazy, Pigalle, Charmaigne, Sweetheart Of All My Dreams and to finish he ended with Who’s Taking You Home Tonight. After the stage performances we changed format and everyone went to do their own thing around the room. A small group playing in one corner, others playing solo, swapping tips, helping
each other with music or just chatting and drinking tea and coffee for the rest of the night.
The night ended at the usual 11pm when they came to lock the place up.
David
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We will
be meeting this Tuesday 18th July. Doors open at 8pm with a hybrid meeting as usual. We will start with any players on the stage who want to play to an audience, then we will move on to having the rest of the evening as a Practice Night(Informal chat,
playing etc. happening around the room). 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 July. 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
18th July 2023
15th August 2023
19th September 2023
17th October 2023
21st November 2023
19th December 2023
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Lythams 1940's Weekend 19th-20th August |
The entertainment marquee situated on Lytham Green has two days of free entertainment from 10am to 5pm each
day. The line up features Derek Herbert Winston Churchill’s rousing wartime speeches, Colin Bourdiec as George Formby and making their Lytham return for their first full weekend appearance the Bluebirds. Paula Marie and Lytham Favourite Lancashire Belle return to entertain once again. Back by popular demand, there’s also the chance to learn to dance with Anthony and Steph and there’s the the Re-Invintaged Fashion Show both days. There will also be BSL in the marquee with
Carol and Tony from CoSign. There will be a licensed forties bar in the main marquee. There will also be military vehicles, music and dance in Clifton Square in the town centre with a resident 1940s DJ. The event opener will be the Friday night Welcome to Lytham event with Colin Bourdiec, Gary Walker, Johnny Victory and Claire Louise. Tickets £10 per head On the evening of Saturday 19th August is the Kalamazoo Dance Band – tickets £15 per head. For More information about the weekend visit https://www.discoverfylde.co.uk/lytham1940s/ |
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8th – 17th September sees many places open their doors for free to give tours/access to places that wouldn’t normally be open to the public. You can find a full list of what is open round the country on their website. A few in the local area are a number of churches with history information, soap factory tour, Masonic Halls, Cold War Bunkers, Halls, Lighthouses and other places. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting/advanced-search
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next ONLINE meeting will be 2nd August 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 2nd August. 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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