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May—July “Summer” 2012 Vol. 15 No. 3
“Advancing the Accordion in Michigan & Beyond.....”
Officers
President: Bob Berta Vice President: Joe Recchia Secretary: Linda Marshall
Treasurer: Jerry May
Directors Silven Koltyk
Marguerite Krau Lorraine Lozovoj
Jim Rand Sam Randazzo Mike Zawojsky
Address/Phone 1248 Lakepointe
Grosse Pointe Park, MI 49230
Phone: 313-822-4722 [email protected]
Web Page
Robert Stead, Web Master [email protected]
Newsletter Committee Bob Berta, Bob Stead
Phillip Ma, Joe Recchia, Tony La Tona
Photographer: Tony La Tona
Music Editors:
Bob Berta & Joe Recchia
Office Hours For information, music from the Library, or tickets to MAS events, call Linda Mar-shall at 313-822-4722 or Marguerite Krau at 248-589-3296.
For Accordion Teachers or
Accordionists for hire, please visit our website at
www.michiganaccordion.org
Past Presidents Steve Stolaruk: 1996-2005
Lana Gore: 2006 Ray Battani: 2007-2010
Stephen Kaye: 2011
Future Meetings and Events
•September 18th meeting will be he ld at the Forestre Banquet Center featuring local Jazz singer Dolores Reyes Aquino.
•September 28, 2012 Music Con-cert Forestre Ban-quet Center fea-turing Lisa Agazzi
• October 16th-Meeting to be An-nounced
• November 4th 2012, Sunday, T ony Dannon Tribute Scholar-ship Benefit Con-cert will be held at the Forestre Ban-quet Center in Rochester Hills, Please save the date and pass the word and stay tuned as an in-credible entertain-ment line up of music ians are e x p e c t e d
Next Meet i ng i s Tuesday August 21st at 7: 30 at t he
For est r e Banquet Ce nt er i n Rochest er H i l ls 1919 St ar
Bat t Dr i ve (West s i de of t he Concorde Inn)
MAS GETS A NEW LOOK! We have updated our website “Thanks to Bob
Stead” & our News letter “Thanks to Phillip Ma and his team” we hope you enjoy the work we are doing to enhance our society. To control
costs, going forward, we will be e-mailing newsletter to MAS Members
that have e-mail and if you do not we will be mailing a copy to you.
Our August 21st meeting will feature a 14 piece folk group brought to you by our MAS Member Roger Wells (photo below) All 14 members will
be driving in from the Flint Area to perform beautiful folk music featuring
several Accordions and a variety of folk instruments. This should be a
real treat that will display more versatility with the Accordion. So please
support this event!
Dick Contino from Las Vegas, NV with our other new MAS
member Mr. Al Battistell i from Cleveland ,OH
For up to date MAS info
v i s i t u s o n www.facebook.com and
search for the Michigan
Accordion Society. Please
consider Joining Facebook its 100% free and always
will be. A number of our
members have already joined. It’s a great way to
connect with your family
and friends as well as
thousands of accordionist from all over the world!
Latest membership count is 121, our goal is 200+ by years end!! We need your help to achieve this goal and to promote this great instrument!
We are pleased to announce that Dick Contino joined the Michigan Accordion Society. Out of all the Accordion Clubs in the United States Dick Contino is a member of only 1 Accordion club and we are very proud to say it’s the Michigan Accordion Society! On behalf of all the MAS Members, Welcome to our Society Accordion Legend Mr. Dick Con-tino!
OUR MAS BANNER IS BACK AND WILL BE PRODULY
FEATURED AT EACH OF OUR MEETING’S AND EVENTS!
www.michiganaccordion.org
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Photos from our February & March Meeting Meeting details were issued in our March/April Newslet ter
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Rudy Bernik was our featured performer for the
month of April and featured some new tunes off his
new Jazz CD “Sqeezebop” with mostly original com-
positions dedicated to his family with a great Jazz
feel, To purchase a copy contact Rudy Bernick.
Other performers included John Kiezun, Don
Rienhelm, Jim Rand, Philip Ma, along with surprise
guest singer and our new member Lisa Agazzi. She
and Joe Recchia entertained the audience to a
standing ovation. Many other members joined in
during the Accordion JAM.
During the meeting the members were polled as to
their feelings concerning a trial run for a meeting at
the Forestre Banquet Center. The membership vot-
ed to give it a try.
April Membership Meeting
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Al Battistelli was our Featured performer that drove
from Cleveland to be with us at our May Meeting.
This was our first meeting at the Brand new Forestre
Banquet Center in Rochester Hills. Very Beautiful
place and we even had a dance floor that had our
MAS members dancing! Other performer came in
from all over the Detroit area such as Greg Stryker &
Eric Deberado on guitar Dave Passalaque, Natale
Emanuele, John Schollak, Andy Caruso, Chet Wisno-
ski, Don Rienholm, Joe Gulish, Ed & Pat O'Rourke to
name a few. Even Ray Battani as well as many others
enjoyed the music and even performed during the
MAS JAM session. The members voted to have more
membership meetings at this facility in the future due
to the excellent facility amenities and warm atmos-
phere.
The MAS Board & Members would like to thank Steve
and Darlene Stolaruk for accommodating our Society.
Thank you for keeping the Accordion Alive!
May Membership Meeting
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MICHIGAN ACCORDION SOCIE-
TY CELEBRATES ANNUAL
YOUTH NIGHT by Linda Mar-
shall
The Michigan Accordion Society
(MAS) held their Annual Youth
Night at the America Polish Cul-
tural Center on June 19, 2012.
Sixteen young musicians from
local music studios took part in
the event. Youth Night was start-
ed in 2000 as a way to encourage
young people in their musical
studies and to expose them to the
beauty and versatility of the ac-
cordion and its music classical
to jazz, rock to old standards,
ethnic to country. Youth Night
gives students, regardless of the instrument they play, a chance to perform before an appreciative and encouraging
audience.
MAS was established in 1996 by a number of professional musicians, instructors, people who play for their own en-
joyment and those who just like accordions and accordion music, to get together for a musical night each month. One
mission of MAS is to provide music scholarships to young, non-professional music students studying the accordion.
Scholarships assist them with music lessons or provide assistance with entry fees, travel and hotel accommodations
when participating in accordion competitions sanctioned by the Michigan Accordion Society.
Vickie Robasin, daughter of the late Gus Zoppi, continues her fathers legacy, teaching the joy of music to young and
old at the Gus Zoppi Music Center in Sterling Heights. She has many students who will be representing Michigan in
the National American Guild of Music Competition being held in Troy, Michigan the end of July. These students com-
peted according to age groups and length of study at the AGM Great Lakes Regional Competition held at the Airport
Westin Hotel in April. Winners became eligible to participate in the Nationals.
Youth Night gave several of these young musicians a chance to perform their competition pieces.
Local music studios who sent students included Evola Music, Huber & Reese, Bobby George, Faye Mao Studios, Gus
Zoppi Music Center and Linda Jolliff of Allegan, Michigan. The audience enjoyed a variety of music played on accordi-
on, piano, drums, violin, guitar and electric keyboards.
All-girl band, Bitter Sweet , comprised of Lauren Dapoz age 14, Katie Williams age 14, and Lindsey Williams age 12,
all students at Zoppi Music, kicked off the evening's entertainment. Abhinau Tiwari, a 17 year-old with hopes to be-
come an Eagle Scout in the near future, sang an outstanding rendition of Some Enchanted Evening from South
Paci?c", which would have made the late Ezio Pinza smile. Samuel Wood performed a great snare drum solo, while 17
year-old Ouijit Datta wowed the audience with his guitar technique, playing flamenco-style music. Accordionist
Kayleigh Gratz traveled all the way from Allegan, Michigan with her teacher to perform.
Other student performers were: Abhishek Rao age 8, Esha Tiwari age 8, Malika Khaira age 10, Allyza Vallino age 11,
Anthony Wiederhold age 11, Brian Berta age 12, Julia Wood age 13, and Nicholas Byrnes age 14.
Midway through the evening performers, parents and MAS members enjoyed pizza, cookies, potato chips, a mixed
fruit bowl, cake and pop. Each Student Performer received a Red Excellence Award Ribbon and an Award Pin. They
will also be receiving Certificates of Appreciation, along with an open invitation to perform at future MAS meetings.
June Membership Meeting
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We were back at the Forestre Banquet Center in
Rochester Hills, MI with our Student MAS member
and featured performer 9 year old Zoe VandenBurg
who drove all the way with her Mom and family from
Holland, MI. Zoe performed several medley's and
was very entertaining and did a fine job! Zoe is active
with children's pageants and she uses her Accordion
as her talent during the competitions. Zoe’s Mom,
Wendi said “We had such a good time meeting with
you guys. The HOTEL accommodations were PER-
FECT! Thank you again for having ZOE as a Feature
Performer. She has great memories!” We are looking
forward to our next visit with our entire family.” We
were very happy to have her perform for us. Please
come back soon!
We followed Zoe’s performance with a Open Mic night,
other performers were John Schollak and Andy Caru-
so who performed several duets by their former in-
structor Tony Dannon. Other performer's included
Sam Randazzo, Bob Berta, Chet Wisnoski Jim Rand,
Rich Stoey, Joe Recchia, Natale Emanuele to name a
few. Very nice turnout. Special thanks to Steve And
Darlene Storlaruk for their facility and for making our
event very successful!
July Membership Meeting
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MAS Music page featuring great Accordion music!
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MAS News
FORMER MAS PRESIDENT STEPHEN KAYE RECEIVES
RECOGNITION AWARD
Bob Berta MAS President pre-
sented Stephen Kaye former MAS president with a recogni-
tion award for his services as the
2011 MAS president. “Thanks so much for the honorary plaque
It will remind me of all the great
times I had as an executive of
MAS and all the people in-volved .
Thanks again for the honor of
being the President of MAS 2011, Hope I still get to play at
MAS once in a while. GLAD to
see that you got the beautiful
banner back – it looks great in the background. Once again
thanks for keeping things going – Ray Battani said that to me….”
and now I’m passing the torch to you guys!” CHEERS and keep up the great club,” said Stephen Kaye.
June 17, 2012 Andrea Caruso daughter of MAS Member Andy
Caruso receives Master in Music and celebrated her Accom-
plishment in style with several of our MAS members. Pic-
tured Left to right Joe Recchia, Bill Cario, Andrea Caruso, Andy
Caruso, John Schollak, Walt Lipiec
Andrea Caruso began studying the accordion at the age of five
under the direction of Lana L. Gore at the Music Centre in Dear-born Heights, MI. Andrea showed great talent at an early age
winning regional competitions hosted by the American Guild of
Music, and national competitions hosted by the American Accor-
dionists’ Association as well as the American Teacher’s Guild. At the age of 13, Andrea competed in her first international com-
petition in Castelfidardo, Italy. That year, she was also invited to
perform as a guest artist with the Plymouth Symphony Orches-tra. She returned to Europe a second time at the age of 15 to
compete at Le Grand Prix in Geneva, Switzerland where she re-
ceived second p lace in her division. At 16, Andrea became the
U.S. champion at the annual American Accordionists’ Associa-tion convention and shortly after she traveled to Budapest, Hun-
gary to compete in the Coupe Mondiale.
Andrea continued to develop as a musician at the university
level. In 2005, she began pursuing an undergraduate degree at
Saint Xavier University in Chicago, IL. There, she studied piano and voice and as early as her first year was invited to perform in
the university’s Honors Recital. Although Andrea says she’s an
instrumentalist at heart, in the end vocal performance won her
over. She studied with Dr. Jan Bickel at Saint Xavier, and re-ceived her bachelors of fine arts in Vocal Performance in 2009.
A year later, Andrea began a Masters program in Vocal Perfor-
mance at the Chicago College of Performing Arts. There she studied under the direction of Mark Crayton and performed in
works such as The Magic Flute and Biardot’s Cinderella. She
was also selected to perform in a master class with the renowned
coach Martin Katz. She was so well received by Katz that he invited her to coach with him personally at the University of
Michigan. Although Andrea recently graduated, currently, she is
preparing to travel to Viterbo, Italy where she will be singing the roles of Dorabella, Cosi fan putte, Velatrice, and Suor Angelica.
She is also the alto soloist in Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Mo-
zart’s coronation mass. Andrea’s parents are very proud of their daughters achievements!
MAS members wish Andrea a great trip and safe travels!
Several of our MAS members are scheduled to be at this year Las Vegas Accordion Festival. We are looking for more MAS members to join us and there is still time, so please don’t miss the great International Accordion event, The MAS is up for the “Forsini Award” (Award given to the most improved Accordion Club in the country) It would be very nice to have a sizeable group to hopefully receive this award. There still time to register. This will be a great event so don't miss out!
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More MAS News
Philip Ma won first place at the AGM National Competi-
tion. He was also asked to perform at the Concert at the event that started off the entertainment. He played flawlessly
performing a Russian jazz version of "Mack the Knife".
Philip also volunteered time over the 3-day competition as a
Room Monitor. The 36th Annual American Guild of Music (AGM) Great Lakes Regional Contest will be held April 26-28,
2013 at the Westin Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
The 112th Annual AGM National Convent ion and Contest will
be held July 18-21, 2013 at the Delta Meadowvale Hotel in
Toronto. UPCOMING EVENTS
Hot Club of Detroit, featuring Julien Labro on accordion will
be at the Kerrytown Concert House, 415 North Fourth Avenue in Ann Arbor on Sunday, August 19, 7:00 PM. Tickets are
$10 to $30. Call 734-769-2999 for reservations.
The American Accordionist's Association will celebrate their
75th anniversary August 14-18, 2013 at the New Yorker Ho-
tel, 481 Eighth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY 10001.
The AAA will present A Musical Celebration honoring the Mag-
nanini Family at the Magnanini Farm Winery on Saturday,
September 8, 2012. The winery is located at 172 Strawridge Road, Wallkill, New York 12589. Phone: 845-895-
2767. Guest artists include Mario Tacca, Frank Toscano
Frank Carozza, Emilio Magnotta, Dominic Karcic, Ray Oreg-gia, Anita & Bob Siarkowski, and The Connecticut Accordion
Orchestra. A donation of $68 per person includes a wine tast-
ing at 12 noon, a complete dinner and entertainment. Con-
tact the AAA, attention: M. Kendrick, 120 Valley View Road, Stratford, Connecticut 06614. Phone: 203-378-1120.
Fall Music Series at the Forestre Banquet Center in Roch. Hills, featuring MAS members, Lisa Agazzi, Joe Recchia, Greg
Stryker, Gary Zack with special guest artists. Sept 28, 2012
at 7:00 PM.
November 4th 2012 Tony Dannon Tribute Scholarship Con-
cert at the Forestre Banquet Center, Many folks coming in
from across the countryam. Mark your calendars more info to follow!
Catch MAS Member Chuck McQueen performs at Joe Bolo-gna’s restaurant in Sterling Heights every Sunday’s & Mon-
day’s starting at 6:00 PM!
Our MAS Member Michele Kramarz attended the DSO Concert at
the Ford Estate, featuring Julien Labro. My Husband Tom & I really enjoyed the concert, there were about 3 thousand peo-
ple there, It was VERY hot, But the music was great. Ju-
lien arranged many of the selections, and played in eve-
ry piece. He did get a chance to talk about his love for the accordion, how the accordion was his instru-
ment of choice, even though he was featured on the ban-
doneon and the accordiona (or accordionica) a cross be-
tween an accordion and a harmonica. Very unique quali-ty. He did play his chromatic on most piec-
es, though. The audience really seemed to enjoy the pro-
gram. There were several Antonio Carlos Jobim selec-tions. He did a great arrangement on the final piece--Libertango
- which included a part for both of the vocalists. VERY EXCIT-
ING arrangement! I've heard both Julien and Peter Soave per-form it before, and always liked it, but the vocal parts add-
ed great new dimensions to this piece. The vocalists were great-
-Pa ulinho Ga r cia (Bra z ilia n) a nd Gra zyna
Aguscik (POLISH! Yeah!). They both live in Chicago now. Both had incredible voices--great jazz vocals on "Falando de Amor".
MAS Members Joe Recchia and Eric Debardobodi with TLC Net-
work Buddy Valsatro aka "The Cake Boss" performing at the Pal-ace of Auburn Hills Taste Fest April 2012. Detroit Free Press
also featured a photo of Joe and Eric in their Sunday Edition.
MAS Members :
Phillip Ma with his
instructor Yakov
Todromovich
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More MAS News
Jimmy Rand performing for Darlene Stolaruk at a local Birth-day Party in Shelby Township with his Roland V Accordion
MAS Member Zoe VanderBurg, per-form Accordion as part of her Pag-eant competition but unfortunately received no crown this round. Zoe re-mained focused at her July 2012 Na-tional American Miss Pagent in Dearborn Michigan and looks forward to sharing her Ac-
cordion talent in the next pageant! Of 50 com-petitors she was the ONLY accordion performer there. Her playing was perfect! The Judges placed a singer(1st), a baton twirler (2nd) and a dancer (3rd). Many people came up to her af-terward & said she should have had a placing. We felt very good coming to such a HUGE pag-eant. She still had a smile on her face. VERY Proud to be a MAS member and shared the fact she was a MAS member with her other little competitors, HOW exciting is that!
ACCORDION HISTORY from http://www.accordions.com/history/migration.aspx
Where it all began - Between 1750 and 1850 the population in Europe almost doubled to 255 million people. Consequently, people in the industrial regions became poorer. In Germany, for example, between 1841 and 1913 over six million Germans emigrated to avoid poverty. Similar emigration happened from much of Europe and Great Britain. Many sought fortune in America, and some took their instruments with them - mostly harmonicas which reminded them of their homeland.
After a time, people began to ask their relatives to send them accordions, and soon after manu-facturers began receiving orders from around the world. Sales representatives also began to set up business in North and South America and the Asia Pacific regions. They received orders as they were known and trusted by their relatives back at home.
MAS Member Natale Emanuele's with his wife Maria's and family celebrating their 40th Anniversary!! Rosalia Emanuele Schultz, Natalina Emanuele and Maurizio Emanuele .
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More MAS News
ACCORDION FOR KIDS PROGRAM (MAS friends from VA) 50 + family members, school officials, Bob Kenyton and John Norbury, Accordion Revolution members had a cele-bration dinner with the young accordionists at Victor Res-taurant in Williamsburg, Va. Monday 11 June to celebrate the success of the Accordion for Kids, USA Program, host-ed this spring by Waller Mill Elementary School, York County, Va. Bob and John shared their accordion stories and we were entertained by Miss Luba Pak who performed two stunning Russian selections. The Young Masters Of The Accordion, played, as bellow buddies, their signature song which culminated in us all singing and squeezing to: "On Top of Spaghetti." Each young accordionist received an accordion pin and a signed Squeezin at the Accordy-Inn CD. This final picture was taken outside the restau-rant upon completion of the celebration dinner.
Joe Recchia with Alicia Baker, Roland V Ac-cordion Representative and Product Special-ist and Accordion fanatic from Milwaukie, Ore-gon. Joe and Alicia spent some time at the Ro-land Demo Exhibit at the 2012 Chicago Accordi-on Teachers Guild at the Hyatt Regency in Lisle, IL. Joe is working with Alicia and Roland Man-agement to bring Alicia to Detroit to conduct a Roland V Accordion workshop for our MAS Members. Alicia is also a fabulous accordionist and opera singer. While Alicia is in Detroit she plans on entertaining us! Stay tuned for more details on both of her possible events! In the mean time, check out her performances on www.youtube.com
Joe Recchia at ATG performing with Elizabeth Finch .
Elizabeth is the top music orchestrator and arranger in Los Angeles who's worked and arranged music for count-
less Musicians, Movies & TV shows.....Some of her major
works recently have been the Lead Music Orchestrator on the TV show “Duets” as well as the 84th Academy Awards.
In addition she has worked on many Major Motion pic-
tures Post Production “Man of Steel” also “Pirates of the
Caribbean”, “The Dark Night”, “Shrek” also recorded Ac-cordion parts on the Movie “Ice Age 4” along side a dozen
of other accordionists. We performed her Frank Morocco
medley arrangements she just completed for ATG in Chi-cago last month. It was a fantastic arrangement that we
plan to perform again in Las Vegas at the end of Septem-
ber! Looking forward in seeing you their!
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR PROMOTING THE ACCODION, WE WANT TO FEATURE YOU ON OUR NEWS LETTER!
IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE A FUTURE ARTICLE OR PHOTO CONTACT BOB or JOE. WE ALWAYS NEED ITEMS FOR OUR NEWSLETTER!
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Music Authority offers MAS members: Buy four lessons & get two free!
Address: 24736 W. Warren St. Dearborn Heights, MI 48127 Phone: (313) 551-5420
Website: www.musicauthorityschool.com Attention: Pavel
MAS Members Please Support the Business that suppo rt MAS!
MAS Business & Classified Section
EDP Studios offers MAS Members: 20% off all in stock items, including Les-sons, Instruments and Professional Record-ings!
Address: 30640 Dequindre Rd Warren, MI 48092 Phone: 586 751-8616 Website: www.edbstudios.com Attention: Eric or Donna
Gus Zoppi Music Center offers MAS Mem-bers: 20% off all in stock items, including Les-sons & Instruments!
Address: 38944 Dequindre Road Sterling Heights, MI 48310 Phone: (586) 978-1816
Website: www.guszoppimusic.com Attention: Vicky or Tom
MAS Member Classifieds
For advertising, or to participate in the MAS discount program, please contact one of our Officers or Board Members
Noble Accordion, black with ivory
keys. Good condition. $800
Includes case but no shoulder straps.
Seller lives in Kalamazoo, Mi.
For more information please contact:
Jan Blacha, a new MAS member, is a Polish
folk singer from Krakow currently living in
Michigan. He is auditioning for a Polka house
band during the month of January (2012) to
perform on Saturday nights. Jan is looking for
a singer, accordionist, horn and drummer.
He can be contacted at: [email protected]
Accordion International offer MAS mem-bers: 20% discount on Accordion Straps and cases and special Member pricing on the lineup of Roland V Accordions
Address: 1760 South 450 West Salt Lake City, UT 84115
Phone: (800) 935-0013
Website: www.accordionfactory.com
Attention: Paul Pasquali
ConCorde Inn offers MAS members: 20% discount on Rooms at both locations
www.concordeinn.com
1919 Star Batt Drive, Rochester Hills, MI 48309,
Phone: 248-299-1210 44315 Gratiot, Clinton Township, MI 49036
Phone: 586-493-7300
A Portable Charger is now available for your Roland FR7/FR7x V Accordion which is specifically engineered and designed
for your BP 24-45 Battery pack. Stop carrying around your bulky Roland Charger and upgrade with this very small and portable (less than 1 pound) very high quality Micro processer based charger. Retail price $249.00. MAS Members will receive a 25% discount.
JR Products LLC, [email protected], 248-824-3856, Joe
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOUR PROMOTING THE ACCODION, WE WANT TO FEATURE YOU!
IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE A FUTURE ARTICLE OR PHOTO, CONTACT BOB or JOE. WE ALWAYS NEED ITEMS FOR OUR NEWSLETTER!
Free notarizing services for all MAS Members through Linda Marshall , Notary Public
1248 Lakepointe, Grosse Pointe Park, MI 49230 Phone: 313-822-4722, [email protected]
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Please mail this application
and your check to: Michigan Accordion Society
5955 Cobb Creek Road
Rochester, Michigan 48305
Michigan Accordion Society Application Form
I express my talents as:
Accor dion F an Student (must be under 18 yrs of age)
Play For My Own Enj oyment Performer Teacher
If you are interested in joining the Michigan Accordion Society, please If you are interested in joining the Michigan Accordion Society, please If you are interested in joining the Michigan Accordion Society, please If you are interested in joining the Michigan Accordion Society, please
FILL OUT THE FORM AND MAIL BACK TO US: FILL OUT THE FORM AND MAIL BACK TO US: FILL OUT THE FORM AND MAIL BACK TO US: FILL OUT THE FORM AND MAIL BACK TO US:
Name:
Address:
City, State, ZIP:
Phone Number:
Email Address:
Signature: _________________________________________________
Date: Referred By (if applicable): ___________________________
Dues are to be made paya-
ble to the “Michigan Accor-dion Society” with applica-
tion for membership. Dues
are $25/year & $15 for students. Sliding scale for
new members only as
follows: Jan—Feb = $25.00
March—April = $20.00
May—June = $15.00
July—August = $10.00
Sept—Oct = $5.00
Nov—Dec = $25.00 for next
year
Join MAS and Enjoy these Membership! Benefits!
Your $25 MAS membership entitles you to: • Great local area business discounts with your Membership Card • Listing on our Website Performers Directory as well as promotion of your CD's and tapes • Updates & Newsletters • Free Classified Advertising in our Newsletter and Website • Membership meeting entrance discounts $5.00 for MAS Members and $8.00 Non Members • Receive a copy of our MAS members list and begin to access a great network of Accordionists • A copy of our Music Library listings • Receive $5.00 for bringing in a new MAS member (see details below) Refer your friends and
family to our Website www.michiganaccordion.net for more information • Invitation to Work shops and special appearance as they become available • Help support the Accordion • MAS Membership is still a great deal for only $25.00 a year!
FREE 1 YEAR COMPLIMENTARY MAS MEMBERSHIP! In order to qualify, the following must apply:
• Solo Music performance during one of our Membership Meetings
• Placed on our playing roster by the Clubs Music Editors
• To qualify, you must not have been a past MAS member.
Membership Incentive Prog rams: $5.00 Finders Fee Details:
• You must be a current and paid in full MAS member
• The new member you refer must have never been a MAS member
• The new member must also be paid in full
• Your name must be placed on our MAS Appli-cation form where it says “Referred By”
Birthday:____________________ Anniversary:____________________
LATEST MEMBERSHIP COUNT IS “121” OUR GOAL IS “200+” BY YEARS END. PLEASE HELP US REACH THIS GOAL!!!
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MAS Last Note News
Attention MAS Members…..we are introducing a new Membership Perk! We our releasing an Accordion Performers White Page Directory on our Website. From time to time we get phone calls or notifications through our website from someone that would like to hire an accordionist to perform for an event. In the future we will direct all callers to our website / provide only this listing so that they can select an ac-cordion performer accordingly. In order to be on this list you must be a current MAS member. If you would like to be placed on this list please contact Bob Berta or Joe Recchia, thank you!
We need your help to search for more members, so please do you part and help support the Michigan Ac-cordion Society by attracting more members to our club to join, if each of us can find one new member, we would surpass our goal, so remember with out members were nothing!
We hope you enjoyed our New Newsletter. As always, we look for comments, so please let us know how we are doing and if we failed to mention anyone at our events our apologizes, we are doing the best we can and could use more assistance, so if your interested in helping out, please let us know!
1248 Lakepointe Grosse Pointe Park, MI 49230
Place
Stamp Here
Great Marke ting for the Acco rdion
