April 07, 2008

BAND REPORT – Ron Sera

Ø Excellent turn out for band practice April 6. Band practice time will now be 12:30 to 2:00 to allow band members to participate in club activities after the business meeting.

Ø Upcoming venue for band April 26 at 12:45 - Saanich festival of Arts Cedar Hill Rec. Centre.

Ø Victoria May Day Parade May 19

FESTIVAL REPORT

Guest accordionists have been invited to the Accordions by the Sea Festival June 27^th-29^th.

Ø Mario Pedone – Texas will make a return engagement.

Ø Barbara Ann Martindale – Vancouver

Ø Irv Lang will also be a featured artist for the Sat. evening concert.

Ø We will be featuring Ries Vink and Marc Wald as our Friday Dance Band.

The format will be similar to last year with

Ø Friday being the official opening and Dance

Ø Saturday Open Stage Events, Workshops, Private Lessons, Jam Sessions, ending with the evening dinner and concert.

Ø Sunday Open stage, Workshops Private Lessons, Jam Sessions, Afternoon Concert and Closing.

The festival committee looks forward to working with the all the club members on this venture. In the near future, Carol Jones and Zosia Locz will be contacting club members with requests to volunteer for preparing for the festival and/or during the festival. Last year was enjoyable, but we were short staffed and had to round up non-members to help out.

The Tall Ship Festival will be the same weekend as the Accordions by the Sea, June 27-29. Plans are being investigated to have accordionists playing at the event.

Zosia Lacz’s backyard miniature garden will be featured in walking garden tour on June 22^nd. She is expecting up to 500 people to visit her garden. Zosia thought it would be a good opportunity to advertise the accordion festival too. She is asking for a few accordionists to volunteer to play during the day. Stan and Patty have volunteered to help out.

Posters and business cards promoting Accordion Fest now available for distribution

OLD BUSINESS

Ø Schnitzel Night May 1 – Ron Sera has offered to play

Ø Schitzel Night June 5 – Volunteer still needed

NEW BUSINESS

- No new business

GUESTS AND PERFORMERS

Guests: Roy Cooke, Jim Gaskill.

Performers:

Ø Peter Wilk from Nanaimo entertained the club with some of his own compositions including Valse Romantique, Days Gone By, Happy Poppa Polka as well as his own arrangements of Ave Verum Corpus by Mozart , Salut d'Amour and Nimrod by Elgar. Peter’s own arrangements are available in .pdf format for $5 each (e-mail at peterwilk@shaw.ca)

Ø John Barwis followed Peter and played his own arrangements of Charade, You are My Sunshine, Angel Eyes.

Ø Irv Lang and Marc Wald joined John to form a great sounding trio playing old standards All Of Me and All The Things You Are as well as other old standards.

NEXT CLUB MEETING –May 4, 2008 2:00 pm