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Last Month
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At our last meeting we started at the usual 8pm. Our first player of the night was Bernard Bamber played Singing The Blues Love Letters In The Sand, My Happiness, You’re The Only Good Thing, He’ll Have To Go, Paper Roses, When I Grow Too Old To Dream, Putting On The Style, In The Mood and Halfway To Paradise. David Rigby was up next, he gave us renditions of Loveliest Night Of
The Year, Wild Rover, The Good Old Summertime, Irish Eyes, My Bonnie, Mountains Of Mourne and, to finish, Highland Cathedral. I was up next playing Black Mask Waltz, Whispering Hope, Oslo Waltz, American Patrol, Sailors Hornpipe, Triste Sourire and Now Is The Hour. Our final player of the night was Colin Ensor who started with There I’ve Said It Again, then he continued the music with The Old Accordion Man, The Theme From The Godfather, Kate Martins Waltz, That Lovely Weekend,
Goodnight irene, Who’s Taking you Home Tonight and finally finishing with Charmaine.
After the stage performances were over we then moved on to the informal part of the night, with people playing in various locations and groups around the room, chatting, drinking tea and coffee, swapping stories and tips, and generally having a good time.
The night ended at the usual 11pm.
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Our Next Meeting
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We look forward to seeing you all this
Tuesday the 21st May. 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. 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
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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Dino Baffetti Accordion Factory
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The Dino Baffetti Accordion Factory had a
fire back in March and as of last week the factory was back into manufacturing again. To see more pictures of the refurbished factory visit the Squeebox Market place facebook page https://www.facebook.com/squeezeboxmarketplace/ Where you could also pre order a Dino Baffetti Accordion
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72 Bass Sonola Accordion For Sale
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Sonola 72 bass accordion for sale in
excellent condition. 5 treble and 2 bass voices. Black with padded straps and back pad in hard case. £800.00.
Please contact Philippa In Carnforth. 07958 012624 peachflip197@gmail.co.uk
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next ONLINE meeting will be 6th June 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.
Simply click this link to Join our Zoom Meeting at 8pm on the 6th June. 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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