COOL Accordion Earrings

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Handmade Beaded Accordion Earrings

I have a very dear friend – Ginger (Virginia). She pays her way to a week long Accordion Camp each year – by making these really COOL ACCORDION earrings.

Let’s all get her to CAMP THIS YEAR!!!

You can have a pair or two TOO! I just ordered 3 – to give as gifts! Just comment in PayPal to let her know the colors you want and she will custom make it for you!!!

$20 a pair and add $1.25 for her to mail it to you. Now if you are out of the USA – be sure and do the proper conversion of your currency to make it US $20 and Ginger will let you know how much postage to add.

Her PayPal account is under the name – Virginia Purdy, gpurdy1940@yahoo.com

Be sure and leave in the comments – your full name and mailing address.

As you will notice – other than sheet music – this is only the 2nd time I have promoted someones “product”. Please let me know if you have something you would like to share with the Accordion Blog World and I would love to help you get the word out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honors Accordion Ensemble Cruise

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Accordion, Accordion Ensemble

Honors Accordion Cruise Sun. Nov. 6 to Sun. Nov. 13, 2016 out of Port Galveston TX. (Houston TX)

Yes – IT IS OFFICIAL!!

We are SO EXCITED to announce that – Stas Venglevski will be the DIRECTOR for this inaugural ALL ORCHESTRA Retreat. Please plan now! Though EVERYONE IS INVITED – we have to cut off the number of Accordionists to 50! The arrangements will accommodate ALL LEVEL ACCORDIONISTS!

DON’T WAIT – Book your cruise cabin direct with Royal Caribbean – 800-465-3595 – Group # 2013714 – “Honors Accordion Cruise” Our Inside & Window Cabin Rates are guaranteed until Aug 7 and ask about 50% discount for 2nd in Balcony cabin! (the posted rates expired already!)

This retreat is designed for the serious accordion ensemble accordionists. We will be learning and performing light POP to Classical material specially arranged by Stas and Shelia Lee – All designed for the final CONCERT ON BOARD the Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas! Here is the selected program and parts are being emailed NOW!

General Orchestra

1. Classical Ouverture – Joerg Draeger
2. Memory – Andrew Lloyd Webber
3. Giro d’Italia – Medley
4. La Plaza De Toros – Luigi Rattaggi
5. Pasadena – Jacob de Haan
6. Irish Dream – Kurt Gaeble
7. Beautiful Waltz – Stas Venglevski
8. Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
9. The Lion Sleeps Tonight – Solomon Linda
10. Big Chuich Tarantella – Stas Venglevski

Chamber Orchestra

1. Concerto a-moll – Josef Bodin de Boismortier
2. Neuveville 25 – Sophie Valceschini
3. Contradiction – Sophie Valceschini
4. Russische Fantasi – Joerg Draeger

We plan rehearsals on AT SEA days and YOU ARE FREE on PORT DAYS!

Royal Caribbean has invited us to perform our final concert ON BOARD the ship! (not part of their Talent Show!)

There is also an additional Concert the Final Sunday Night in Houston featuring Stas in CONCERT! (If you desire to stay over another night in Houston)

A BONUS – Stas is personally inviting accordionists to be part of his CHAMBER ORCHESTRA (that will have their own rehearsal schedule). This group will  stay and perform with him in Houston.

ALSO – each evening – following the last rehearsal – there will be an opportunity to SHOW OFF – so bring your music and plan to perform with your personal ensembles!

Registration opens April 1 – $150 Registration Form (chrg for Accordionist only) – Link to follow

$250 deposit per person ($500 per cabin) – 100% refundable until due date –  will hold your reservation until Aug. 7 when the balance is due. YOU CAN PERSONALLY SELECT YOUR CABIN!! 25 are already booked ! We can use 10 to 12 more accordionists and need a drummer!!

Registration Fee – $150 – pay direct to Honors Accordion. Non-accordionists – NO Charge. Link to Registration Form –2016 Honors Accordion Orchestra Cruise Enrollment Form

If you have any questions – please call Shelia Lee at 281-788-6667 or email her at slee@shelialee.com or go to the website – www.accordionhonors.com

Print This Flyer and give to your Accordion Friends – AccordionCruise2016-4-5NewRates

Debra Peters – Instructional Accordion DVDs

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Accordion, Accordion Exercises, Accordion lessons

Debra Peters – Accordion Educational DVDs

Debra Peters has made 3 exceptional DVDs – that will walk you through many aspects of playing the accordion with a HEAVY CONCENTRATION on basses! I get so many requests for DVDs – because YOU want to SEE what you are learning and there are so FEW out there!!! Especially for Basses!

DEBRA PETERS … Performs and teaches accordion, piano & voice in Austin Texas and her band – LOVE SAINTS plays … a variety of blues, roots-rockin’, zydeco, cajun, western swing, western swamp, train beats & classic country music.

Personal Note: Debra and I have been friends for years. We are both CRAZY LADIES that love the accordion. I have had her conduct workshops for my music studio and AND her Blues Session at the Honors Accordion Retreat held this past Nov. 2015 was a FANTASTIC!

http://www.debrapetersmusic.com/DVDs.html

The one I recommend the most is Debra’s ABCs of ACCORDION Basic 25 BASS PATTERNS DVD. Debra shows you how to add some really cool bass patterns to different style music and she includes a booklet with all the patterns written out!

And with the booklet – there are actually 36 bass patterns total!!

Notated in BASS CLEF for you to read and play, or put on the DVD so you can play along with the teacher! Hours of fun!
Price: $39.95 free shipping USA.

 

ABCs of ACCORDION Basic Vol. 1

Vol.1 includes the 5 most common BASS patterns for LEFT HAND buttons and Debra’s “easy” I-IV-V chords…  Zero in on the BLUES SCALE notes.

Play accordion using roots Blues & Gospel chord progressions. This power-packed hour-long DVD offers more than the blues.

The DVD provides info. and basic rhythm patterns for several music styles: Folk, Americana,Tex-Mex, Country, Cajun, Zydeco, Mardi-Gras, Waltzes, Polka, and more. Price: $29.95 free shipping USA.

ABCs of ACCORDION Basic Vol. 2

Vol. 2 digs a little deeper into the depths of the Bass Patterns for the 120 bass accordion. Walking Bass, Playing Thirds, LH Major Scale, “4-note” Triads, 1-5-1-1-Song endings, 1-6m-4-5 progressions, Cajun Progression 1-5-5-1, playing in the key of A and more. Price: $29.95 free shipping USA.

Squeezebox Circle – Vancouver, Canada

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Accordion, Accordion Sheetmusic, Practice tips

I have found a new source with great links to songs (some are written for accordion – others are lead line) and many other great accordion links.

http://www.zisman.ca/squeezebox/

I just spent about 3 hours – roaming through their links – I found some great music there – and “refound” some long lost friends!!! They even have a link from over 9 years ago of a set of songs I wrote for Texas Folklife!!!

Play Accordion – Link

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Accordion, Accordion lessons, Accordion Sheetmusic, Accordion Solos

Great Site for Accordion Arrangements

Click the image to go to their site. It is loaded with articles that TEACH the scores that are on the site.

ENJOY!

Accordion Sheet Music – Source

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Accordion Sheetmusic, Accordion Solos

Original – Nunzio, Magnante, Diero (Sr. & Jr), Galla-Rini and MORE!

I have found a great source for finding original sheet music written by the MASTERS! Please click this link – to see only a SAMPLING of some of the music that is available. Most of these are out of print, no longer available ANYWHERE!!!! And most of these – he only has 1 !!!!!

Over 5000 original accordion arrangements solo
Over 1000 accordion course books
And building catalog for accordion band arrangements

Please email John  – ippaleedo@gmail.com for FREE CATALOG and Full listing of what is available and what price.

Be sure and Tell John – You HEARD about his music library from the Accordion Blog!

Link – to Partial Listing – Accordion Catalog of Solos

Mario Pedone, PhD Accordion Performance

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Accordion

Mario Pedone, Honors Accordion Retreat

Mario Pedone is going to be conducting an ENTIRE DAY LONG workshop as part of the Honors Accordion Retreat Noc 12-17 2015 – on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 in Houston, TX. With an Evening Concert – including the workshop participants!

His plans are to TEACH YOU TO PLAY JUST LIKE HIM!!! WOW – LOVE IT! I will be in the FRONT ROW!!!!

Mario was born in a small town near Bari, in Southern Italy and a toddler, his family moved to Venezuela. Mario’s older brother, Ludovico, had begun to study the accordion and Mario was always watching him, hoping one day he also could play this wonderful instrument. He persistently begged his father to let him start accordion lessons, too, and eventually succeeded.

As a young man he devoted at least 4 to 5 hours per day practicing until his father screamed GIVE US A BREAK but that didn’t stop Mario from playing his beloved instrument.

While in Venezuela, Mario graduated as a Concertista, Cum Laude, and finally with a degree of Professor of Accordion. After graduation Mario founded his own accordion school where he had over 125 students. Many of his students now play professionally. Mario has won numerous championships with both the accordion and the organ.

In 1981, Mario moved his family to Sugar Land (Houston), Texas where he teaches and performs professionally, and has his own recording studio where he creates his fantastic backtracks for all accordionists to play along with.

His musical range includes, but is not limited to, Classical, Latin, European, and American Standards. Mario has been invited to perform in the Famous Accordion Festival celebrated in Ransäter, Sweden and has also performed at concerts in New York, Dallas, Austin, Boston, and many other states in the U.S. Not to mention his tour of China and appearances with the Houston Symphony Orchestra.

Mario Pedone – “Waltz Allegro”

Mario Pedone at Chinese accordion Concert 2012

Mario Pedone & Cory Pesaturo Go WILD!!!

Mario Pedone & Cory Pesaturo play Chitarra Romana

Hotel – near Hobby Airport – not near IAH (BUSH)) – Four Points by Sheraton Houston Hobby Airport – 8720 Gulf Freeway · Houston, Texas, 77017 · Phone: 713-948-0800 · Hotel Reservations: 866-716-8133 – Ask for Accordion Retreat – FIRST 10 People can ask for a FREE UPGRADE TO SUITE ROOM – $99 per night – which includes FREE HOT BREAKFAST for entire room daily.

FREE HOTEL AIRPORT SHUTTLE to and from HOBBY AIRPORT. (Out-of-Towners – for the Mon-Tues workshops – plan to arrive Sun PM and we can have you back to the airport for a 5:30 pm flight or after on Tues.)

You Tube Videos – Play and Teach

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Accordion, Accordion lessons, Accordion Sheetmusic, Accordion Solos

Play and Teach Accordion Lessons on You Tube

I need some help here – I spent about an hour going through these videos and looking at the sheet music that was linked and was very impressed with the music and the songs. I can not find a name for the player/teacher. He has the songs (lessons) numbered 1 through 38) So I am guessing they progressively get harder – so start with #1 forward.

(I do have a little problem – with this player’s bass style – BUT it is VERY FRENCH!)

I personally teach the 3rd finger on the bass for the Major and Minor position – then switch to the 4th finger for the 7th chords – but I DO NOT change any player that has learned this method.

Please click and enjoy these great tunes.

Link – https://www.youtube.com/user/playandteach/videos

Link to Most all of the following sheet music – http://play-and-teach.blogspot.com/2013_07_01_archive.html

• Greensleeves
• Let My People Go
• Moscow Nights
• Speak Softly Love
• The Ashgrove
• Valse Des Neiges
• Where is Your Heart (Moulin Rouge)
• Trois Tours de Piste
• Sunrise Sunset
• Sous les toits de la rue Tiquetonne
• Sous Les Ciels De Paris
• Norwegian Wood
• Matchmaker song
• Jeanne Marie Gabrielle
• Maigret Theme
• Mahogany
• Last of the Summer Wine
• La Vie En Rose
• La Nonchalante
• Hushabye Mountain
• Golden Brown
• Feed the Birds
• Valse des Chevaux de Bois
• Vivre
• Le Temps de Huit Ans
• La Discrete
• Estrellas
• Come Back to Sorrento
• Chim Chiminey
• Childgrove
• Ces Heures La
• Anniversary Dance
• Jamais Deux Sans Toi
• Vai Vedrai
• Valse pour Michel
• Mad World

Accordion Virtuosi – Russian Accordion Orchestra

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Accordion, Accordion Ensemble

Accordion Virtuosi

WOW – what a rare opportunity – Accordion Virtuosi – is coming to Houston, TX. to Jones Hall – Cullen Theater, Wortham Center- 8 pm Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015.

See this Link for more details – http://spahouston.org/show?ShowId=138

• Accordion e-card – Click this link for instructions to receive your Discount and Master Class ticket (the CLICK HERE LINK is the SPA HOUSTON link above!)
• $15.00 admission to Master Class (3:30 to 5pm Wortham Center)
• $40.00 concert ticket (discount of approximately $20.00)
  
• If you buy the tickets using the code (accordionvip), SPA will give you the Master Class for a discounted rate of $10.00. You will just need to email education@spahouston.org to register for the class
• Don’t want to park downtown and lug your accordion to the Master Class – reserve a spot on our Jones Hall Bus with door to door service from the Four Points by Sheraton Houston Hobby Airport – 8720 Gulf Freeway. Leaving at 2:30 pm returning after concert. $20

The accordion takes center stage when this ensemble makes its Houston debut. The Accordion Virtuosi of Russia thrills audiences around the globe with a diverse repertoire ranging from folk music to arrangements of rock songs.

This unique group was founded in 1943 during the Leningrad siege by Professor Pavel Smirnov. Since its inception, the Accordion Virtuosi of Russia has been led by three generations of the Smirnov family: founder, Pavel Smirnov, and now by his sons Yuri and Vladimir, as well as his grandson, Yaroslav.

This link will take you to all the videos for Accordion Virtuosi.

See their music on You Tube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKh_OOuLqsM&index=1&list=PLPHP05kixvVazYNzmhhFH1WBY5FFBYIyB

Stas Venglevski – Houston Accordion Retreat Workshops

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Accordion, Accordion lessons, Practice tips

Stas Venglevski – Virtuoso on the Accordion

We have a fantastic opportunity this fall – Stas is coming to Houston. Mark you calendars. We are organizing an exciting few days with him that will include private lessons and group lesson/sessions.

Stas’ Bio – http://www.stasv.com/artist.html

• Stas will be
• Conducting the Retreat Orchestra on Thurs Nov. 12,
• Teaching private lessons on Fri Nov 13,
• Teaching workshops & private lessons on Mon Nov 16.
  

Come and enjoy Stas – attend all or just pick your Accordion Retreat days! He will be in Houston a short time on Thurs & Fri and will return the following Mon. & Tues.

Link – See the Full Retreat Schedule

**There are only 10 slots for private lessons with Stas – so the first 10 to book the entire retreat – will get these slots!

See Enrollment form and select what you want to LEARN!! Link – Stas Workshops – Enrollment Form 2015 (revised 7-2) – email to slee@shelialee.com

Hotel – near Hobby Airport – not near IAH (BUSH)) – Four Points by Sheraton Houston Hobby Airport – 8720 Gulf Freeway · Houston, Texas, 77017 · Phone: 713-948-0800 · Hotel Reservations: 866-716-8133 – Ask for Accordion Retreat – FIRST 10 People can ask for a FREE UPGRADE TO SUITE ROOM – $99 per night – which includes FREE HOT BREAKFAST for entire room daily.

FREE HOTEL AIRPORT SHUTTLE to and from HOBBY AIRPORT. (Out-of-Towners – for the Mon-Tues workshops – plan to arrive Sun PM and we can have you back to the airport for a 5:30 pm flight or after on Tues.)

These are a PLAYING Accordion Retreat – BRING YOUR ACCORDION!