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Last Month
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Our last meeting was our Christmas let your hair down night and Jacobs Join. Thank you to everyone who contributed some food to the Jacobs Join. We laid out the food while the first play was playing on the stage then announced that the food was ready for people to help themselves while listening to the players on stage. We started with Bernard Bamber playing White Christmas, Oh Come All Ye
Faithful, Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer, I saw Mummy Kissing Santa Clause, Walking In A Winter Wonderland, Silent Night, Hark The Herald Angel Sing, The Old Rugged Cross, Amazing Grace, Scotland The Brave, Flower Of Scotland and Molly Malone. Most people were tucking in to the food while our Next player Ann Parker Played Ukelele and Vocals, she started with Anybody Seen My Girl and continued with Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer, Rocking Around The Christmas Tree, Matchstalk Men and then finished
with Deck the Halls. Colin Ensor then took to the stage playing Once In a While, Kate Martins Waltz, All Of Me, Bilitus, I won’t Tell A Soul, Why Did you Make Me Care, Pigalle, The Greatest Mistake Of My Life and Charmaine. Bernard Belshaw was up next, Bernard started with White Christmas and Wonderful World, he continued the Christmas theme with Silent Night, Jingle Bells, Winter Wonderland, Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer and finished with Blaze Away and Spanish Gypsy Dance. Harvey was up
next on Trumpet with his own Backing tracks he had created on his piano at home. He gave us Sloop John B, 10 Guitars, Things We Used to Do, Oh Lonesome Me, Daisy Bell, When The Saint’s Go Marching in, We Shall Not Be Moved and Delilah, to finish he played Over The Rainbow on Trumpet. Our Last Stage player of the evening was Ann Parker on Accordion playing Memories Are Made Of This, The Harry Lime Theme, Frog Chorus, Blue Bell Polka, The Snow Waltz and The Loveliest Night Of The
Year. The rest of the night was people playing around the room, chatting, swapping stories and tips and generally having a good time.
The night ended at the usual 11pm.
David Batty |
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Our Next Meeting
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We look forward to seeing you all this
Tuesday the 16th of January for our first meeting of 2024. As usual we will give players chance to play on the stage before opening the floor up to playing anywhere around the room, chatting, catching up with each other, learning new tunes etc. Please try to bring your accordion and make 2024 a good start for your accordion playing, and for your social life. Doors open at 8pm, see you there. David. |
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Forthcoming Dates
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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
16th January 2024
20th February 2024
19th March 2024
16th April 2024
21st May 2024
18th June 2024
16th July 2024
20th August 2024
17th September 2024
15th October 2024
19th November 2024
17th December 2024 |
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Harry Davis
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A good friend of the club Harry Davis
(Harry The Boat) Has Passed Away, He has not been to the club for a number of years now, his wife Audrey had died and his Dementia had worsened then he had moved into a care home. I lost contact with Harry when his health limited the number of times he came to the club and after a while of not seeing him his phone stopped working and I got no replies from his address, I had no idea he had gone in to a home. From the early days of the club Harry and Audrey Davis were regular visitors, with Harry being the accordionist. We had regular boat trips on Harrys narrowboat playing the accordion and we would play on his boat in Preston docks at the maritime festival. Harry always tried to make it to the club even though he had to travel over from Manchester where he
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The Piano At Christmas
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Harry Hussey who has regularly played at,
and is a good friend, of the club, took part in a one off The Piano Christmas special on Channel 4. Harry played on The Piano last year and had been invited back for this Christmas Special. This time he was joined by previous contestant Fiona who was singing, they performed “The Christmas Song” by Mel Torme. At the end of the show Harry was chosen as the winner. You can watch it online
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-piano-at-christmas
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Accordion Teachers Workshop Day
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In Partnership with UK Association Of
Accordion Teachers the Diocese Of Leeds Music are holding a Workshop Day For Accordion Teachers & Students on Saturday 24th February 2024 at Leeds Cathedral. It will be a day for open discussion, Sharing Resources and meeting other teachers. This is all the information we have about the day at the moment. When there is more details we will put it in another
newsletter.
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St Audries Bay Accordion Week
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St Audries Bay Accordion Week is taking place from the 5th July to the 12th July at the St
Audries Bay holiday camp in Somerset. I believe it will be following the same or similar format to last year where there are a number of Orchestra Workshops each day with one full day being taken up with teaching workshops such as improvisation, Accordion techniques etc etc. There will also be opportunity to book one to one sessions with members of the teaching team. Each evening there will be a concert.
Static Caravans are fully booked at the moment but there is possibly more
accommodation being released this year. There are still pitches for caravans and campervans available to book. You also have the option of booking accommodation offsite and traveling in There is a Holiday camp next door called Home Farm Holiday Centre, there are other nearby hotels and holiday lets.
To book accommodation at St Audries Bay Holiday Club contact 0333 200 3333. Then for each person who will be taking part in the festival as an accordionist you pay the event
organisers £100 for the weeks workshops etc. To book You place on the Accordion week email sabaccordionweek@gmail.com |
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next ONLINE meeting will be 7th 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 7th 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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