We will be holding our Christmas meeting this Tuesday 19^th December.  As is normal for our December Christmas meeting we will be having a ‘Jacobs Join’, this is where we all try and bring some sandwiches, pork pies, cake, sausage rolls or some other form of food to put in to a communal feast. 

This will also be a night where we ask people to not only play the accordion but also to show any of their other talents if they do something besides play the accordion.  Maybe you play the trumpet, banjo, sing, play the keyboard, recite amusing ditties or have some other talent you would like to share with us, if so we look forward to your performance.  We also look for anyone teaming up with another player or two on the December night if you want to have a go at playing together. If you are a nervous player, or have not played in front of anyone before then this is a good night to make your debut. After the food has been laid out and others are choosing what to eat, you could take your turn on the stage and get some playing in while others are concentrating on their food.
 

As usual there will be Tea and Coffee on the go.
 

See you at 8pm this Tuesday 19^th December. Please try and make it if you can, it will be nice to see a good turnout on our final day of 2023.

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
19^th December 2023
16^th January 2024
20^th February 2024
19^th March 2024
16^th April 2024
21^st May 2024
18^th June 2024
16^th July 2024
20^th August 2024
17^th September 2024
15^th October 2024
19^th November 2024
17^th December 2024

Bill Bailey has a series of programs where he visits Australia, travels around meeting people and seeing sights. On the first episode he buys a second Hand Accordion in a shop. The accordion was out of tune but I was surprised that he still bought it even though he is a brilliant musician so knew it was that way. He only used it once that we saw, this was to play ‘music’ in a forest, then we never saw it again. You can watch on Channel 4’s Catch up service https://www.channel4.com/programmes/bill-baileys-australian-adventure/on-demand/75930-001

Just a reminder that now is a good time to dust off your Christmas tunes and start practicing, you never know when you might be asked to play for family, friends, or you could play them at our December concert. 
 

The next ONLINE meeting will be 3rd January 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 January.

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.