Victoria Accordion Club

Meeting highlights

October 1, 2006

Music Performance

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Tom Cordoni, an accordionist from San Francisco visited our club this afternoon. Tom and his wife are visiting various accordion clubs as they travel across the country. We were treated to a half hour of entertaining medleys of various styles played on an interesting looking accordion, that had black treble keys and a treble clef design on the bellows. Tom belongs to three accordion clubs in the San Francisco region and these clubs have up to 200 members!

Marc Wald was our other featured performer who entertained us with tunes that he had written such as “In Between the Keys” and various numbers that have been popular requests from his performances on radio and TV.

Marc and Tom teamed up for duets to complete the afternoon’s entertainment. We were treated to New York, New York and a medley of polkas starting with Just Because.

BAND REPORT

• The band has two gigs Oct. 18^th at the Monterey Center in Oak Bay and Oct. 20 at the Fairfield activity center.
• The next band rehearsal is Monday Oct. 16^th An e-mail will be sent listing the selections for this rehearsal.
• Band members are encouraged to start practising Christmas numbers too.

OLD BUSINESS

Schnitzel Night

• The volunteer for Schnitzel Night in Sept was Robert Hildenbrand and Ron Sera has offered to entertain for October.

• Members are encouraged to support these musicians by attending Schnitzel Nights. Not only do you get to hear accordion music, you also get a great meal.
• Reservations needed. Contact Herma Hughes 658-8878

Accordion festival 2007 - August 10-12^th 2007 - Victoria

• The name of the event will be changed to ACCORDIONS BY THE SEA.

• John Fear has reserved the Edelweiss Hall for August 10-12.
• All members will need to volunteer in some way to make this venture a success.
• Members are asked to put their names forward if they are interested in being on the festival organizing committee. This will require a significant time commitment.

NEW BUSINESS

• Website: Ron Sera has officially registered the name “Victoria Accordion Club” as the website address for our club. Anyone accessing the Internet, including club members, can now access our club website by using www.victoriaaccordionclub.com and get to our existing website being held on the Tempo Trend web space at Islandnet. He also registered the name “Accordions By The Sea” for our club’s use for the accordion festival we will sponsor in the future.
• Edmonton accordion festival - Mary Ross was invited to adjudicate the 11^th annual Edmonton Extravaganza Sept 22-24. There were 94 entries comprising of accordionists from 8 and under to 90 years young. The event started with a sold out concert Friday evening. The theme was Music Around the World. Performers were the Edmonton Accordion Band directed by festival organizer/instructor Enes Upright, followed by Mary Ross and Barbara Ann Martindale from Vancouver. Saturday was busy with competitions, workshop on traditional Celtic music, jam sessions, and an evening dance with a popular band from Edmonton. Sunday was another full day of accordion competitions, duets, ensembles, novelty classes, and bands (four bands), and senior open competitions. This event is run very efficiently, promotes the accordion to the public and participants in a positive manner. VAC members, Brian and Rosemary Bartle and Monica Trautmann attended the event this year and hopefully more members and perhaps even the band will attend this event in the future.

Next meeting – Sunday, November 5^th; the theme is Autumn music.

Tom Cordoni plays for the club members	Tom Cordoni
	Marc Wald and Tom Cordoni play duets