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Our March Concert
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Our March Concert started with our own John Lennox playing Green Glens of Antrim, The Mountains Of Mourne, Biddy Mulligan, It's a Long Way to Tipperary, Skibberean, Slievenamon, Galway Bay, Isle Of Innisfree and Londonderry Air. Our next player was Bernard Bamber playing Hello Dolly, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Que Sera
Que Sera, Those Magnificent Men, Green Green Grass Of Home and She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain. It was now time for our Guest Artist Robert Burton to start his first spot of the night. Robert started with his Acoustic Excelsior Accordion, his opening piece was Clarinet Polka, this was followed by Corinne, A man and A Woman and Cubanola. Robert then moved to his MIDI Paulo Soprani Accordion. After playing Funiculi Funicula, Robert started playing and singing South Of The
Border, Drink Drink, Wooden Heart and Volare. Robert then continued with Bel Fiore, Besame Mucho, Crazy, Country Roads, Santa Lucia, Return to Sorrento and The Godfather Theme. After the Break I started the second half with Blackpool Belle and Fleur De Paris. Our next player was Sara Daly playing A Granddaughters Dream and Emma & Jamie's Wedding. Graham Driver then played a couple of tunes before Robert Burton started his second half with Bel Viso and Radetski March. Singalong Song
Books were then handed out to everyone in the audience, these contained all the words for the forthcoming tunes and were great for helping us sing the right words for the rest of the evening. Singing from the songsheet with Robert we continued the night with Mancamara's Band, Tulips From Amsterdam, Windmill In old Amsterdam, Wonderful Copenhagen, Que Sera, Sera, The Happy Wanderer, Roll Out The Barrel, Deep In The
Heart Of Texas, Little Brown Jug, Knees Up, Mother Brown, Molly Malone, Those Were The Days, Lilli Marlene, She'll Be Coming Round The Mountain, I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside, All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor, I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts, I'm Enery The Eighth, Edelweiss, Are You Lonesome Tonight? Cock Linnet, Side By Side, You Made Me Love You, Shine on Harvest Moon, Daisy Daisy, Bless 'Em All, I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles, Down At The Old Bull And Bush, My Bonnie Lies Over The
Ocean, Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr. Hitler?, Run Rabbit Run, The White Cliffs Of Dover, It's A Long Way to Tipperary, Pack Up Your Troubles and finally a rousing We'll Meet Again. In this concert we had enjoyed an instrumental first half, and a great singalong in the second half. Many people were commenting on what a great evening they had experienced, I promised them that we are definitely bringing Robert back in a year or two.
David
Batty
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Wyre Club
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The next meeting of the Wyre Club is on Wednesday 23rd April 2014 at The North Euston Hotel on the Esplanade at Fleetwood, FY7 6BN. Further details are on tel. 01772 864887.
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Wirral Accordion Club
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This club is on every Tuesday at The Place In The Park, 109 Liscard Road, Wallasey CH44 9AE. The night starts at 7pm. The format of this club is a playaround circle where people sit in a circle and play in order round the circle.
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This Wednesday
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This Wednesday we have a local
players concert with a slightly different ending to normal. Players please bring your accordion along and give us a tune or two, especially if you don't normally play for us. The audience are very supportive and although you might be nervous at the thought of playing on the stage I am sure you will be pleased with yourself for doing it. Please try your best to support our concerts, and possibly bring along a friend for a great night out. The doors are open at 7.30 for 8pm. If you see someone
you don't normally talk to then please introduce yourself, you might make a new friend.
See you there...
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YouTube Videos
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Soon we will be uploading a couple of short clips from our Guest Artist concert with Robert Burton. If you go on www.youtube.com/AccordionTV and watch some
of our videos. These are videos taken at the club over the years and feature some great music. Please tell others to watch our videos too, it may lead to more website views and more visitors to our concert nights in future.
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How One Woman organised 1,000 letters and 6,000 parcels to be sent to enlisted men in WW1
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The Telegraph put out an interesting Article on the 8th April Here is a short extract from the Article. "Elizabeth Strouts set up a trust to organise the sending of letters and parcels to the local men serving around the world to keep up their morale and remind them their sacrifices were appreciated. In addition, she personally investigated every account of local
men going missing in action and went to see those recovering from injuries, while also organising others to make such visits. By the end of the war - in which one in five enlisted men from her village (Great Chart in Kent) were killed - she had orchestrated the sending of some 5,921 parcels and 989 letters - including, one year, the despatching of 65 Christmas cakes around the globe. six months after the outbreak of war. Along with her sister, Margaret and other women from the village, she
started collecting money from among the local community, with any sum accepted, in some cases as little as a halfpenny a week. During the course of the war a sum of £1246-1s-6d was raised - the equivalent of £85,725 today. The letters and parcels were sent not just to those fighting on the Western Front, but in every part of the world in which Great Chart men were serving. Every one received a letter each week. Those on the Western Front also received a weekly parcel, while those further away
got one a fortnight. The parcels contained items like socks, writing paper, chocolate, and marmalade, as well as postcards of local views. On some occasions, soldiers made particular requests, with one even asking for an accordion to be sent." The Article never writes whether the soldier asking for an accordion received an accordion but the article makes for interesting reading. To read the whole article visit www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/10744046/How-one-woman-stepped-in-when-the-men-marched-off.html
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Ribble Valley Jazz Festival
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The 5th Ribble Valley Jazz Festival will be held over the first Bank
Holiday weekend in May (1-5 May 2014). The festival is based mainly in the market town of Clitheroe, It features over 35 bands, 325 musicians, a Blues Stage, various workshops and a street festival in Clitheroe on the Saturday of the Bank Holiday. Bands/Artists include Dennis Rollins, NYJO, Snake Davis, Camerata Ritmata and Marley Chingus etc For more info ring 07870 908 159, email info@rvjazzandblues.co.uk or visit the website ww.rvjazzandblues.co.uk
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Accordion and Jewellery Stolen
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(From Chichester Observer) Police are appealing for information after unusual items were stolen from Westbourne.
An accordion and a large amount of jewellery were stolen from a house in East Street between midday on March 28 and 4.30pm on March 30. The accordion was a red Weltmeiser 60 Bass with black straps and a red carry bag with 'The Music Room' written in black. The jewellery included a wide hinged 18ct bangle with a white sapphire set into the gold, a gold Rotary watch with a white oblong face, a Polsa gold coloured watch with a round face, a 9ct large oblong cameo ring, a 18ct ring with solitaire
diamond, a 9ct amber ring in the shape of a flower 9ct wedding band, a 9ct ring set with cubic zirconium, a 18ct white gold ring containing blue topaz and diamond, a silver ring containing a pearl with cubic zirconium surround and matching stud earrings, a 18ct gold chain with an amber pendant within a gold setting, a 14" fine gold chain with pendant of a horseshoe and the hand of Fatima. Anyone with information about the burglary, saw anything suspicious in the area or has seen these items for
sale, please contact police on 101 or email 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk Alternatively contact the independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Darth Vader Busks in Glasgow |
Discover Glasgow shared this photograph on twitter on the 8th April showing a Busker wearing a Darth Vader mask playing the Games of Thrones Theme Tune. It's certainly a way to get yourself noticed when Busking.
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Fylde's Got Talent
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Just Like Britain's Got Talent, Fylde has been holding it's own round
of Fylde's Got Talent rounds culminating in the grand final on 27th April at Lowther Pavilion. The finalists are James Edgar (singer/guitarist) The Sara Creaney Band (Sara (singer), Ali (piano), plus guitarist) Cinzia Lanza (classical singer) Moonshadow (4 members in band) Thomas Pawson (piano) Grace Lily Robson (singer) Jane Fraser (singer) - Jade Leigh (singer) Stephen Barnes (singer/guitarist) Sophie Melville (singer) Ella Coleman (singer) Michaela Masterton (singer). There are
too many Singers for me to want to attend, but if it interests you then tickets are Available from Lowther Pavilion online at www.lowtherpavilion.co.uk or telephone 01253
794 221 Admission is £10, Show starts at 7pm.
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Southport Jazz Festival
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Southport Jazz Festival is on from 9th-11th May and has 38 separate
events around the town with 27 of them Free entry and 6 of them Free to Diners at their respective Venues. The 5 Paid for events are priced between £8 and £18. The Acts performing at the various events are The Fresh Dixie Project, Chameleon, Mike Smith Duo, Vernon Fuller, Trio Gitan, Credo, Swingology, Annie Long, Riders in the Ska, Barbieshop, Modjango, Kiki deVille, Lyn Fairbanks, Chicago Teddybears, The Paul Palmer Quintet, Philip Clouts Quartet, Jacqui Dankworth, Gary Potter, Mike
Smith Trio, Cottonhouse Shakers, Tame Valley Stompers, Svarc Trio, Turkey Circus, Endangered Species, Jacqui's Rhythm Katz, The Weave, The Billionaires, Perfectly Frank, Modjango, Ginger Tunes Quartet, Rae Owens Duo , Anthony Ormesher Du, The Ben Cox Band, Clark Tracey Quintet. There is a group with an Accordion they are Trio Gitan "Trio Gitan will take you on a journey from Classical Music to
Klezmer, Poignant Russian songs to Parisian Swing, compositions new to Celtic Fiddling - this band has it all! A spontaneous dynamic interplay between violin, guitar, accordion and vocals from these maestro musicians." they are performing at Cafe D'Art, on 9th May 8pm - 10pm and 10th May 2pm - 3.45pm at the Wayfarers Arcade Both events are Free to attend.
For more information visit www.visitsouthport.com/whats-on/southport-jazz-festival-p259291 or you can telephone 01704
533333.
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Spotify
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We wrote about Spotify when it was a few months old back in 2009. We have now decided to repeat the story with a
few changes as most readers of our newsletter at that time were not on the internet. Spotify is a music streaming service giving you free access to music that you would otherwise have to pay for before you could listen to it. To use Spotify you visit www.spotify.com Download the Spotify software to your computer and create an account. You can then search Spotify's database of music, and stream tracks for free to your computer. Spotify's Free account is supported by the occasional short advert between Tracks, Spotify offer a Premium Account which costs £9.99 with the Premium account you don't have to listen to any adverts and you can also listen to music offline. At the time of
writing a free account has no restrictions on how many times you can listen to a track or how much free music you can consume in a month, previously a free account was limited to 5 track plays and 20 listening hours a month. So you can now search Spotify for those unusual tracks that you haven't heard for ages and in case your wondering they do have accordion music on there. Spotify recently allowed Free Accounts to use their mobile application with a few restrictions, the mobile application is
available on iOS and Android mobile phones, so you have access to a world of music via your phone.
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Chester Accordion Club
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The Chester Accordion Club's next meeting is on Tuesday, 29th April 2014. The venue is The Groves Club, Chester Road (A5032), Whitby, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. For further details, telephone Lynn McCallum on 0151 339 9850.
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Forthcoming Dates
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Our Forthcoming Nights at The Priory Club, Broadfield Drive Leyland 16th April 2014 Local Players 30th April 2014 Practice/Social 7th May 2014 Practice/Social 21st May 2014 George Syrett 4th June 2014
Practice/Social 18th June 2014 Local Players 2nd July 2014 Practice/Social 16th July 2014 Local Players 30th July 2014 Practice/Social 6th August 2014 Practice/Social 20th August 2014 Local Players 3rd September 2014 Practice/Social 17th September 2014 Guest Artist 1st October 2014 Practice/Social
15th October 2014 Local Players 29th October 2014 Practice/Social 5th November 2014 Practice/Social 19th
November 2014 Craig Bradley 3rd December 2014 Practice/Social 17th December 2014 Christmas Do
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