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Last Month
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At our last meeting we started at the usual 8pm. Our first player was Harvey Seager playing Sloop John B, Delilah, Sarah’s Waltz & Amanda’s Waltz, The Happy Accordion, Mexicalli Rose, Things, and Lonesome Me. Next up was Michael Kristiansen playing Lets Have a Ceilidh, Margarets Waltz, Guiness Waltz, Uist Tramping Song, Ballala Reels, Nae Awa To Be Awa, Dark Island, Wee
Todd and Kenny Gilles Of Portaalong Jim. Ann Parker was our next player she started playing Fancy Fingers Polka, then continued with Jackallen Jive, Danube Waves, Under Paris Skies, Chorus Of Hebrew Slaves, Snow Waltz and Over The Waves.
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 16th July. 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
16th July 2024
20th August 2024
17th September 2024
15th October 2024
19th November 2024
17th December 2024 |
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St Audries Bay Accordion Week
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We have just returned from St Audries Bay
Accordion week in Somerset. The festival was a week of accordion workshops, concerts, busking sessions, old friends meeting up after a year, one on one tuition, and a Ceilidh on one of the evenings. This is a great festival in a lovely laid back camp by the sea. There were five adults and two kids from Leyland Accordion club in attendance. Being a campsite rather than a hotel we were staying in a campervan, a caravan and two in a static caravan. The festival was well attended,
everyone seemed to have a great time and we met many new accordion friends. I will post details of next years event in the newsletter nearer the time but to put it in your diary it will be held from the 4th to the 11th of July 2025.
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Heritage Open Days
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From the 6th – 15th
September places across the country will be opening their doors to celebrate our history and culture. There are hundreds of free events to attend but you have to book your place for many of them. To find events near you visit https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/
We have attended these in the past and visited a wide variety of places including a behind the scenes tour of Blackpool Tower Circus, Preston Masonic Lodge and a behind the scenes tour of Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
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Helen Rich Local Concert
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Helen Rich is performing a 1 Hour concert
at Garstang Arts Centre on the 18th of July from 1pm – 2pm, the concert is free but donations are welcome. This is part of a series of Free Thursday lunchtime concerts at Garstang Arts Centre. You can find a list of the artists performing each week on their website https://garstangartssociety.org.uk/summer-lunchtime-concerts/ The Lunch time concerts are on from the 20th June – 12th September
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Play Score II
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A very useful application is Play Score 2
which you can download on your mobile phone (it has to have a good camera on the phone to work). Once you run it you can take a photo of any piece of sheet music… and hear it played instantly. You can slow it down or speed it up, and if you pay for the application rather than use the free version you can export it to music editing packages or create a mp3 version to play in your favourite music player. This app is excellent for looking through music, taking a quick photo, and then
deciding whether you like the tune or not. If you don’t read music then this can help you learn. Look on your mobile phone store to download it and either use the free version, or alternatively pay for the pro version.
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Birmingham Accordion Centre
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Online Chat/Playing Wednesday
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The next ONLINE meeting will be 7th 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.
Simply click this link to Join our Zoom Meeting at 8pm on the 7th 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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