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Saulieu
Cajun & Zydeco Music & Film Festival 2005, Burgund - Frankreich
Von
Rob
Howard
Das
12. Saulieu Cajun & Zydeco Music & Film Festival findet vom
5.-8. August statt. Der Anlass ist eines der grössten europäischn
Cajun und Zydeco Festivals mit eingeladenen Künstlern aus 4 Ländern.
Die
Gästeliste umfasst:
Die Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band (USA), Dexter Ardoin und die Creole
Ramblers (USA), Lil' Jim und Deepzone Zydeco (UK), die Hackney Ramblers
(UK), die Zyderythmics (UK), eine Cajun Company (Niederlande), Blue
Bayou (Frankreich), Mousse Espagnole (Frankreich), Maman Roulaille
(Frankreich), Grand Prairie Special (Frankreich), Bayou Corneille
(Frankreich)
Weitere Informationen sind zu finden unter bayouprod@aol.com
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Renato
Borghetti's European Tour - Brazil
Von Rob
Howard
 Die
Spezialität von Renato Borghetti und seine Band pflegen die
brasilianische Gaucho Tradition und sind während dem Juli auf
einer Europa tournee.
Daten und Details:
1. -
3. Rudolstadt, Deutschland, Dance and Folk Ferstival
5. Bremen, Deutschland, Schlachthof
6. Berlin, Deutschland, UFA Fabrik
8. Güssing, Österreich, Kultursommer
10. Guastalla, Italien, MUNDUS Festival
11. Castelnuovo ne' Monti, Italien, MUNDUS Festival
12. Rottofreno, Castello di Sandimento, Italien, Val Tidone Festival
13. Izola, Slovenien, Mediteran Festival
14. Agliana, PT, Italien, Rincao Gaucho
15. Florenz, Italien, Festa dell'Unita
17. Paris, Frankreich, La Villette
Renato
Borghetti ist 1963 geboren und einer der führenden brasilianischen
Akkordeonisten. Er verkauft grosse Mengen an Aufnahmen und seine
Popularität ist in vielen Ländern bekannt, inklusiv in
den Vereinigten Staaten der USA. Borghetti's Stil geht vom Jazz,
dem Samba. Der Polka zum Musette Stil und er modernisierte auch
die Gaucho Folkmusik. Gerne nimmt er Konzerte an um irgendwo eine
Audienz zu geben.
Für weitere
Informationen: cultureworks@aon.at
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Bernadette
Conlon Concert, Salt Lake City - USA
Contributed
by Jay Todd
 Bernadette
Conlon, Australia's Ambassador of the Accordion, performed her first
concert on a five-stop U.S. and Canadian tour to several standing ovations,
and encore-demanding, cheering audience at the Salt Lake Area Accordion
Club Tuesday June 21st.
Beginning with her rendition of Bach's 'Toccata in D', which she calls 'Hot
Toccata', Bernadette worked her way through a variety of selections from
her eight CDs during the first set. Following a 10-minute intermission during
which time Bernadette was autographing her CDs for enthusiastic new fans,
she returned to the stage for a second set of audience requests. She played
everything from 'Poet and Peasant Overture' to Ukrainian melodies to' Flight
of the Bumble Bee' to' Beer Barrel Polka', before ending with a stunning
encore of 'Czardas'.
Jay Todd, Salt Lake Area Accordion Club president, said after the cheering
117 attendees quietened down, "You are a legend in your beloved Melbourne.
Now you can claim Salt Lake City as your second home! Enthusiasts hung around
for nearly an hour as they acquired her CDs and waited for autographs from
the 'Pride of Australia'. We've had a number of prominent American accordionists
perform for our club, but none has captured our audiences as did Bernadette
with her skills, aesthetic interpretations, and masterful performing."
The Salt
Lake Area Accordion Club, founded by Jay and Janet Todd, Janet herself being
an accordionist of national repute in the U.S., is in its third year but
already is one of the strong accordion clubs in America. Arriving in Salt
Lake City Sunday evening, June 19th, Bernadette and her mother, Lyn flew
to Seattle, Washington, where they motored to Leavenworth for the Leavenworth
Accordion Festival.
Following that stop, Bernadette will fly to Las Vegas, Nevada to perform
at the Las Vegas
International Accordion Convention, then fly to Victoria, Canada to
perform at an accordion club concert there, with a tour-ending performance
of their 23-day journey at Kimberley, British Columbia for the Kimberley
Old Time Accordion Championships.
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Isle
of Skye Accordion and Fiddle Festival, Scotland - UK
Contributed
by Rob
Howard
 The
inaugural Isle of Skye Accordion and Fiddle Festival, held from May 26th
to 28th, was acclaimed by its organisers to be an unqualified success. The
festival was centred on the Royal Hotel, Portree, where music sessions ran
almost continuously throughout the weekend, involving about 60 musicians,
from far and wide.
The accordionists included Tom Orr and his Scottish Dance Band, the Ballochmyle
Ceilidh Band, Black Rose Ceilidh Band, Sam and James Stewart, Alan Palmer,
Lorraine Gillies, Edward MacLeod, Willie Shankie, Ian Cameron, Marian Anderson,
Charlie MacLeod, Geordie Wark, and Ian 'Tonkan' MacDonald. Charlie MacLeod
held an accordion workshop in the Skye Gathering Hall.
A reviewer has
stated that the festival was "an exceptional weekend of traditional
Scottish music and dance. Moving from venue to venue, the same faces would
appear and disappear as the entire, toe tapping and convivial population
rotated from pub to pub, whether following their favourite artiste or trying
to hear as many different players as possible. At one point in the Royal
Hotel, eight accordionists, a drummer and a keyboard player, from different
parts of the country, were performing together - what music!
The dance, in The Skye Gathering Hall, to the Ballochmyle Ceilidh Band,
proved to be a success beyond everyone's wildest expectations, the atmosphere
was out of this world, and everyone was on the floor for every dance, teenagers
and grannies alike. You could feel your chair moving to the rhythm of the
dance as the floorboards and joists in the old hall got their best flexing
in 20 years". The
committee is already planning next year's event.
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Accordion
Events at the Val Tidone Festival, Borgovono - Italy
Von
Harley
Jones
Das
jährlich statt findende, Val Tidone Musik Festival veranstaltete
fünf Konzerte in welchen auch Akkordeonisten teilnahmen. Alle Shows
begannen um 21:15.
Details der Programme sind:
Juli
2. Calendasco, Guedo di Sigerico, French Music Night,
featuring Renzo Ruggieri and The French Touch Trio.
12. Rottofreno, Castello di Santimento, featuring Renato
Borghetti and his Band (Brazil).
15. Castel San Giovani, Piazza Cardinale Casonoli,
featuring a jazz program from the Soldedad Ensemble
(Belgium).
16. Agazzano, Piazza Europa, featuring the Simone
Zanchini Jazz Project.
August
5. Pecorama, Piazza Jacupo da Pecorama, featuring
Jean-Marc Fabiano (France) and the Aquzza Orchestra
'Luigi Cremona'.
Für weitere
Informationen: info@valtidone-competitions.com
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 John
Kirkpatrick at Frome Festival, Somerset - UK
Von Rob
Howard
John
Kirkpatrick, Englands führender Spieler der 3-Reihen diatonischer
Knopf Akkordeons, Melodeon und Anglo Concertinas, will appear at the
Frome Festival in Somerset on July 3rd. From 4pm to 5pm, Kirkpatrick
wird der Führer der Workshops betitelt: 'Playing für Folk
Dancing - aller Instrumente', und will um 20:00 Uhr beginnen.
Für
weitere Informationen: office@fromefestival.co.uk
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A
new site selling a CD titled Christchurch
Accordion Orchestra with sound samples. Music conducted by Meg Fidler
and performed by Jun Norrell, Merle Kershaw, Kynette Kelcher, Rosalie
Taylor, Faye Lawrence, John Dooley, Paula Turnbull, Ryan Hawes, Heather
McCausland, Karl Barrett, Jill Voss, Max Powell, Mark Perry, Bernie Holtmark-vandijkerhof
(drums), Jack Joslen. Purchase online.
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Sebastiano
Cali - accordionist, composer, piano tuner, harpsichord and
other early instruments maker, releases another 6
new works for accordion available for purchase online. 'Valse
Op.70 No. 2' (Chopin), 'Waltz in Ab' (Brahms), Prelude No. 1 from
Well Tempered Clavier' (J S Bach), 'Hungarian Dance No. 5' (Brahms),
'Air on the G String' (J S Bach), 'Adagio' (Albinoni), 'Tico Tico'
(Abreu). The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to your
computer. Purchase with credit card.
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James
O' Brien - composer,
arranger and performer, releases another 6
new works for accordion available for purchase online. 'Fais Dodo
' (traditional), 'Folk Song' (traditional), 'Ghialo, Ghialo' (traditional),
'The Girl I Left Behind Me' (traditional), 'Home on the Range' (traditional),
'Julida Polka' (traditional). Samples of this music are available
on the site. The music is in eSheet format, able to be emailed to
your computer. Purchase with credit card.
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Domi
Emorine and Roman Jbanov, das Duo Paris-Moscow, gab sein Debut am Ringe
Festival, welches stattgefunden hat vom17. - 19. Juni. Das Duo spielte mehrere
Male und begeisterte eine grosse Zuhörerschar.
Der
Akkordeonist Marcel Loeffler und seine Zigeuner Familie, inklusiv
Gitarre und Bass-Gitarre, spielt ein Jazzkonzert im "l'Abbaye
de Noirlac", in St Amand Montrond, am 20. August.
A
new