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Upcoming Events:
See the page on our “Accordions By The Sea” Festival	July 16 – 18, 2010

The Victoria Accordion Club participates at various events. Some of these are summarized below.
Past Activities:
Mario Pedone – in concert
	Mario Pedone in concert Sunday, May 3, 2009 3:30 p.m. Edelweiss Club 108 Niagara Street Victoria, BC
Mario Pedone, virtuoso accordionist, returned to Victoria on Sunday May 3. He is based in Texas, but has visited and played in Victoria several times in recent years. The Victoria Accordion Club hosted a concert by Mario at the Edelweiss club (108 Niagara Street) at 1530 hrs (3:30 p.m.). All who attended thoroughly enjoyed Mario’s stellar skill and performance. Mario is very well-known in music circles. He is an accomplished accordionist and keyboardist who plays every style of music including jazz, latin, European, country, folk, big band, traditional and much more. His exceptionally smooth style blends often with blinding speed on the keys, which makes him the sultan of accordion music.
Mario Pedone and Reis Vink of Nanaimo played a duet after Mario gave his usual inspired and entertaining concert performance. Truly a virtuoso musician.
Victoria Accordion Club Band
		April 22, 2009 Shannon Oaks Retirement Residence
The Victoria Accordion Club band played a performance for the Shannon Oaks Retirement Residence. The band played an entire set of standards and familiar songs. Residents sang along and a few even danced. The band often plays for community and charity events, such as a cancer fundraiser at a downtown Victoria shopping mall.
		March 7, 2009 Cancer fundraiser at Bay Center shopping mall Downtown Victoria, BC
		Jelena Milojevic Concert Sunday, March 1, 2009	Jelena gave a superb concert of classical music. She also conducted a highly useful workshop on bellow control and effects.
Jelena Milojevic was born in 1981 in Split, Croatia. She started her studies of accordion at the Music Academy in Pula (Croatia), in the class of Professor Denis Modrusan. She finished her studies at the Music academy in Kragujevac (Serbia) in 2004 in the class of Professor Radomir Tomic. During her career, she has performed in Canada, Europe (Germany, Italy, UK, Ukraine, France) as well as throughout ex-Yugoslavia. Jelena Milojevic has won numerous international accordion competitions, as soloist and as a chamber musician. One of her greatest successes is the winning of one of the biggest international competitions for accordion artists, WORLD TROPHY 2003 in Acquappesa, Italy. During her career she has made successful collaborations with some of the world's leading pedagogues and performers, like: A. Skliarov, Y. Shishkin, P. Soave, J. Crabb, O. Murray, M. Vayrynen, and R. Tomic. During the 2006/2007 season, she was deeply involved in research of chamber music, performing with her ARTES DUO, unique combination of violin and classical accordion. The duo performed numerous concerts in some of the biggest halls in Southern Europe (“Kolarac hall”- Belgrade, “Banski dvor”- Banja Luka). Her performances were acclaimed as "an explosion of cosmic sensuality", in the same time pervade with "brilliant virtuosity..." … "one of the greatest female accordion performers of today". Jelena Milojevic now lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada where she's working hard on promoting and establishing classical accordion, as a performer as well as a teacher. She's teaching at Vancouver Community College, Vancouver, British Columbia.
		Victoria Day Parade – May 19, 2008	The club prepared a float for the parade to promote the Accordions By The Sea Festival June 27 – 29, 2008. It was a huge success. Click here for more photos. Click here to see short video of the club’s float in the parade. (please be patient while the movie loads … it takes a minute or so)
Past Activities:
		Chemainus Accordion Festival August 11-13, 2006. Victoria Accordion Club band played Sunday at 1:00 p.m.	Accordion music lovers from Vancouver Island gather each year to hear a variety of musicians perform, including international performers.
		Fundraising events eg: Cancer Foundation May 27, 2006 [click here for more photos of event]	Charitable events
		Victoria international walking festival April 16, 2005	The VAC was invited to perform, along with other musicians, for this annual event.
		St. Johns Community Church Fair April 30, 2005	The VAC band performed to the enjoyment of local residents.
		Victoria folkfest July 2005	An internationally recognized event featuring artists from Canada, the U.S. and other areas.
		Folkfest 2005 audience
		Bernadette Conlon concert July 3, 2005 At Victoria Edelweiss Club 1:00 p.m.	A special concert of accordion music performed by well-known Australian and international champion musician.
		Bernadette Conlon amazes the audience with her musical skills, talent, and exceptional repertoire.
		Summerfest at Edelweiss club July 2004	Lively entertainment, music and fun.
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