The festival aims to reach as many people as possible, and for that reason the key word is “meeting” – between the different brands of accordions, between international artists and teachers, between the city and the guests, according to Francesca Santini of Ideazione Eventi.
Beitrag von Olivier Kerkhofs of Roland Central Europe
Am 28. September fand in der Roland Europazentrale/Belgien das Halbfinale für holländische und belgische Teilnehmer statt. Der Gewinner Pieter Bosma (30 Jahre alt aus Coevoorden, Holland) spielte seine eigene Version von ‘Kwartet Musette’, von Allan Mussini, auf seinem FR-7b.
Das französische Halbfinale, offen für Teilnehmer aus Belgien und Luxenburg, fand in La Bourboule im Nice Casino statt.
Die Jury-Richter waren Ludovic Beier (Akkordeonist und V-Accordion Demospieler), Daniel Deruytere (Roland Central Europe) und Philippe Krumm (Direktor von ‘Accordeons & Accordeonistes Magazine).
Der Gewinner Felicien Brut und drittplazierte Amelie Castel sind aus der Schule CNIMA, wo auch der zweitplazierte Bereswind Olland einige Lehrkurse absolvierte.
UNAC (Unión de Acordeonistas), San Sebastián – Spanien
UNAC – die Union für Akkordeonisten feiert ihren ersten Geburtstag.
UNAC wurde mit dem Ziel gegründet, eine große Anzahl and Profikünstler, Solisten, Gruppen, Komponisten, Lehrer aus der Akkordeonwelt mit Hobbyspielern und Akkordeonliebhaber unter einer einzigen Organisation zu vereinen.
Alle angestrebten und zum Teil erzielten Objektiven haben eine gemeinsame Vokation – die große Liebe zum Akkordeon. Aus diesem Grund ist es für UNAC wichtig verschiede Events, Organisationen und Gruppen zu unterstützen wie zum Beispiel: – das 20jährige Jubiläum des Orchesters Zero-Sette, die 50. Edition Certámen Nacional de Acordeón, das 15. Internationale Cantabrian Festival, das Internationale Zarautz Jazz Seminar,
die Valladolid Akkordeonwoche, etc. Zusätzlich gibt es eine lange liste mit verschiedenen Aktivitäten, Seminare und Masterklassen mit Max Bonnay, Luciano Biondini, Frederic Deschamps, Ignacio Alfayé und Jean-Louis Noton.
UNAC möchte weiters auf die stets steigende Anzahl neuer CD Aufnahmen ihrer Mitglieder hinweisen. UNAC wurde von der CIA (International Confederation of Accordionists) als Mitglied mit Sitz in Donostia, San Sebastián, aufgenommen.
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‘Mull Reflections’ ist der Titel der neuen CD des Akkordeonisten Deirdre Adamson, mit Kompositionen von Calum MacLean, einer der besten schottischen Spieler. 20 Tracks mit einigen internationalen Stücken wie: ‘Echoes of Lucerne’ (Walzer), ‘San Antonio’ (paso doble), ‘Veronique’ (Walzer-Musette), ‘Springtime In Switzerland’ (Walzer), Memories of Bad-Godesberg’ (Polka), sowie weitere Kompositionen im schottischen Stile: ‘Sunset On Sunart’, ‘Fergie MacDonald's Jig’, ‘The Hills of Mull’, ‘The Man from North Connel’ und ‘Jim McAlister's Jig’.
Calum MacLean war Europäischer Akkordeonmeister im Jahre 1970 und ist bekannt für seine große Gabe Musik aller Stilrichtungen zu komponieren. Die moisten seiner Kompositionen wurden veröffentlicht.
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The NE Accordion Festival, presented in association with the Walker Art Center and sponsored by KFAI FM Radio, takes place the Cedar Cultural Center from November 9th to 11th.
Performers include Dan Turpening, Finn Hall, Joanna Darrow, Dan Newton, Larry Malmberg & Mike Alongi, Mark Stillman, Datta, Dee Langley, Orkestar Bez Ime, Jerry Minar, Hank Thunander, Frode Haltli (Norway), and John Scaffeo, Canada. The festival includes concerts, workshops, ‘Jazz Symposium’, Massed Accordion Band rehearsal and performance (MD Wendy Tangen-Foster).
This festival began ten years ago and has three times upgraded to larger venues to accommodate increasing visitor numbers. The accordion is alive and well (and blossoming) in Minneapolis/ St Paul!
The opening evening concert, on Friday September 28th, featured a full performance by the Elsene Accordion Orchestra, from the Netherlands.
The 2007 Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival main evening concert took place on Saturday September 29th at the Casa de Cultura, Lasarte-Oria, in the Basque region of Northern Spain. A sell out audience enjoyed performances by Enrike Zelaia (Spain - right), Nathalie Boucheix (France - left), the Elsene Accordion Orchestra, and the Zero Sette Akordeoi Orkestra (Spain). Amaia González and José Mari Orbegozo, Tango Europe Champions 2007, gave a spectacular performance of tangos, to the accompaniment of the Zero Sette Akordeoi Orkestra.
Next year’s Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival takes place from September 26th to 28th 2008, and invitations are extended to accordion orchestras from any part of the world to visit and participate.
Roland Europe S.p.A (Acquaviva Picena, Italy), a manufacturing subsidiary of the international electronic musical instrument producer Roland Corporation (Japan), organized an international meeting in Castelfidardo, Italy on October 2nd and 3rd. The two-day meeting was dedicated to Roland's V-Accordion and V Accordion Specialists.
V-Accordion sales staff were invited from Roland's sales subsidiaries and joint-venture companies all over the world including; USA, Canada, Brazil, UK, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, France, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, and Italy. This international meeting was organized with the support of Castelfidardo City Hall, and the meeting itself took place at the Conference Room in the Castelfidardo City Hall. Photographs
This meeting was titled ‘V-Accordion Camp’, and various topics such as the introduction of the brand-new V-Accordion models FR-2 / FR-2b (the first shipment was just made in September), V-Accordion R&D history and technology, V-Accordion Promotional Strategy, V-Accordion Festival up-to-date... were all discussed.
Furthermore, in order to develop their knowledge of accordion development and history in general, they visited the Castelfidardo Accordion Museum. There, they received a warm welcome by Mr. Beniamino Bugiolacchi, the director of Museum. Many of the participants saw for the first time, not only the historical accordions but also the fact that the Roland's first V-Accordion model FR-7 is exhibited at the Museum. Photographs
Balkan Dance Party, Minneapolis – USA
Contributed by Colleen Bertsch
The Orkestar Bez Ime, featuring accordionist Dee Langley, play for the Balkan Dance Party at at the Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave South, Minneapolis, Minnesota on October 13th, at 8pm. The event also marks the release of OBI’s new CD ‘Nice Driveway, Volume Three: Rogarian Baba-que’.
Shetland's 20th Accordion & Fiddle Festival takes place from October 11th to 15th. The guest artistes include button accordionist Bill Black (now back playing after losing the index finger of his right hand in a freak accident last year) with pianist Mabel Gray, the trio Cuckoo’s Nest (Ireland), David Vernon, Deoch n’ Dorus, Gordon Shand Scottish Dance Band, James Corbett, Jim Gold Trio, Liz Doherty and Jim Woods, Martin Tourish (Ireland), Ottar Johansen (Norway), Pentlands Ceilidh Band, Quarter Deck, Roy Hendrie, Sandy Legget, Sandy Nixon, Sean Og Graham and Aidan O’Donnell (Ireland), and the Susan MacFadyen Scottish Dance Band.
October 20th - Escola Infantil Ntra Sra del Pilar, c/Pere d'Om, Sabadell, Barcelona
November 18th, 6.30pm – St Mart’s Church, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona
December 20th, 7pm - Auditorio Ocab, Entença, 218, ent, 1a Barcelona
Ferran’s program includes
‘Luz Azu’ - C. Camarero
‘Preludio i Fuga g#m Clave’ - J.S.Bach
‘Capriccio’ - W. Zolotarew
‘Fantasia 84’ - J. Ganzer
‘Autumn Scenes’ - A. Kusyakov
‘Recuerdos de la Alhambra’ – F. Tárrega
‘Capricho Español’ - M. Moskovski
Jazz accordionist Victor Prieto has many concerts in his diary in the next few weeks, including:
13th, 11am – with the Pasblo Asian Group, New Jersey
13th, 3pm – with the Pasblo Asian Group, Battery Park, New York
13th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Night and Day, Brooklyn
15th, 8.30pm - with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
19th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
20th, 9pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project, Fat Cat, New York
27th, 6pm – with the Pasblo Asian Group, Tango fiaca, Harvard, Boston
November 16th, 6pm – with Emilio Solla, NY Tango Project at BBC, New York
December 1st, 8pm - with the Pasblo Asian Group, Bucknell University
On October 21st, 4pm, Jim Vandelly and Joan Grauman will present a workshop on diatonic accordions at the Washington Metropolitan Accordion Society, held at Sleepy Hollow United Methodist Church, 3435 Sleepy Hollow Road, Falls Church, Virginia.
In honor of the season, Joan will also play some Oktoberfest tunes. In addition, Jim will show some videos of Russian musicians. Afterwards, rehearsals will take place for the December 16th holiday concert.
Veteran accordionist Andre Verchuren is in concert at the Salle de Marinieres, Porcieu Amblagnieu on October 21st, at 11.30am. Born in 1920, Verchuren’s career spans the generations from the 1930s, through the post-war years right up to the present time.
Regular performances at the Thirteen Coins Sea-Tac, October 23rd to 27th, and November 13th to 17th.
October 21st, 5pm to 7pm - solo concert at Sherman Clay, 1000 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue.
December 8th, 10am - noon - solo concert at Imagine Children's Museum, 1502 Wall St, Everett.
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Am 28. September fand in der 
Die Jury-Richter waren Ludovic Beier (Akkordeonist und V-Accordion Demospieler), Daniel Deruytere (
UNAC – die Union für Akkordeonisten feiert ihren ersten Geburtstag.
The NE Accordion Festival, presented in association with the Walker Art Center and sponsored by KFAI FM Radio, takes place the Cedar Cultural Center from November 9th to 11th.
The 2007 Lasarte-Oria Accordion Festival main evening concert took place on Saturday September 29th at the Casa de Cultura, Lasarte-Oria, in the Basque region of Northern Spain. A sell out audience enjoyed performances by Enrike Zelaia (Spain - right), 
Balkan Dance Party, Minneapolis – USA
Bayan player Ferran Martinez performs as follows:
Jazz accordionist Victor Prieto has many concerts in his diary in the next few weeks, including:
Andre Verchuren Concert, Porcieu Amblagnieu- France
Murl Allen Sanders Concerts, Washington State– USA