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Winter 2013 Vol. 16 No. 1

“Advancing the Accordion

in Michigan & Beyond.....”

Officers

President: Bob Berta Vice President: Joe Recchia

Secretary: OPEN

Treasurer: Jerry May

Directors

Marguerite Krau Lorraine Lozovoj

Jim Rand Sam Randazzo Mike Zawojsky

Address/Phone

54685 Chickasaw Dr. Macomb, 48042

586-992-0498

Web Page Robert Stead, Web Master

steadrw@gmail.com

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 Bob Berta

586-992-0498.

For Accordion Teachers or

Accordionists for hire, news of special events, etc. 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

All 2013 mem-

bership meet-ings are on the third Tuesday of EVERY month. Please mark your calendar now so you won’t miss a meeting!

All meetings for

the immediate future are at the Forestre Ban-quet Center next to the Concorde Inn at M-59 and Crooks Rd. off ramp.

Each meeting

will feature a special artist,

various perfor-

mances by the

club members

and at the end of each meeting

jamming. Please

feel free to bring

your accordion

to join in the

jam session or to volunteer to

play a couple of

solo pieces.

Each monthl y Meet ing i s on the thi rd Tuesday of the

month at 7:30 at the Forestre B anquet Center in

Rochester Hi l ls 1919 Star Batt Dr ive (West si de of the

Concorde Inn) . Take M-59 and exi t at Crooks Rd.

The board members have spent many hours prior to the last few meet-

ings sending email notices as well as calling members to remind them to

attend the meetings. This has been a huge amount of extra work and the

board decided that since there is a meeting EVERY month on the SAME

day of the month it won’t be needed. PLEASE BEFORE YOU DO SOME-

THING ELSE, GRAB THAT CALENDAR YOU GOT FOR THE HOLIDAYS

AND MARK IN EVERY MEETING FOR 2013.

Your attendance at every meeting is very important as your attendance

and monthly attendance fee is needed to cover our monthly expenses.

Aaron Caruso will attend our February meeting

and will perform for us!

CHECK OUT PAGE 3 ANNOUNCEMENT OF BIG FEBRU-

ARY 23rd DINNER CONCERT!

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

it is 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!

HAVE YOU HUGGED YOUR ACCORDION TODAY?

We took the opportunity at the October meeting to take a group

photo of our members to celebrate our receiving the prestigious 2012 FROSINI award. It was awarded at the 2012 Los Vegas Interna-tional Accordion Convention. This is a very big honor recognizing

the many innovations we incorporated in 2012. It is awarded to on-ly one club each year. A special thanks to Joe Recchia for an incred-ible amount of work putting together the documents needed to sup-port our efforts to compete for this award.

www.michiganaccordion.org

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FROM THE PRESIDENT

The 2012 Tony Dannon Tribute was without a doubt the

most successful event MAS has ever put on. The amount of

of hours the board put into planning the event was extraor-

dinary. There were several times I worried if everything

would come together. But in the end it was all worth it. The

360+ people in attendance were treated to an incredible

array of talented musicians with a very smooth transition

from one act to the other, great food, and drink .

I had many worries….could we stick to a schedule, mini-

mize “dead time”, with such a long program would people

get tired and leave early, would the dinner be tasty, would

we make enough money to cover our expenses!

Amazingly as far as I know there were NO glitches. All the

musicians were spectacular, the food was great, and a great

time was had by all.

The doors opened at 3:30 and the official program ended at

9:30. I thought with that much music people would have had enough...but they didn’t.!

Al Batisttelli went out after the official program ended and brought in his sound system for his Roland accordion. He started playing

along with all the other musicians in a non-stop jam session that went on into the wee hours. And not only were they playing in the

convention center room, a few others moved into the entrance hall and had their own jam session. I finally left around 2:30 in the

morning….but understand some were still there as late as 4:00am! And yes...we made enough to cover our cost (whew!) and that and

sizeable donations went into the Societies Music Scholarship Fund.

It will certainly be a challenge to match or exceed the Tribute event but the board is already discussing the next “big event”. 2013 will

see our normal monthly meetings with special surprise featured artists at each one in addition to our own volunteer club artists. You

may want to consider making 2013 your time in the spotlight. If you haven’t done it before...consider playing a couple of tunes at our

monthly meeting. And if you still don’t feel ready for a solo spot, bring your accordion to join in with our jam sessions at the end of our

meeting. They are fun and you won’t have to worry about hitting a wrong note...everybody else will drown you out with THEIR wrong

notes ;-) Besides our monthly meetings we are also planning on another student night in addition to another big “special event”. We

are also considering taking our accordions to the public. We are good at “playing for the choir” but if we want to get more people inter-

ested in accordion we need to let them hear it. We are discussing possible playing at some non-accordion specific festival, or shopping

centers, perhaps a parade like Columbus Day, etc. If you have any connections or ideas I would love to hear from you.

Finally the club needs your support to continue to operate. We need as many people as possible to attend each month AND your

monthly entrance fee is the only way we can offset our expenses for food, facility costs, etc. We had a membership of 175 members at

the end of 2012...we need YOU to support the club by attending as many events and meetings as you can.

I also encourage you to consider getting involved in the club at a higher level. We have a couple of board spots open and if you have

any particular skills that you can bring to the club such as computer skills, newsletter experience, secretary experience we welcome

your help. But even if you have no specific skill, your willingness to help out is always welcome. I want to recognize two new members

who have already stepped up to the plate. Tony Papa is a brand new member and is already asking how he can help out. And Villo

Marmei who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada borrowed an accordion repair manual from me and returned it along with a nice selec-

tion of tunes. I decided to use one of them in this newsletter...so thanks Villo!

One of the perks for our winning the Frosini award in 2012 is that our first 20 members that attend the 2013 Las Vegas event will get

a discount.

Bob Berta

MAS President

The 2012 Tony Dannon Tribute

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EVENTS

We will unveil the finished Tony Dannon Bronze Sculpture at this event with the artist Guliani Zucatto

present and will present to the Tersigni family as a thank you gift for their $25,000 MAS scholarship dona-

tion. We are also working with the sculpter in establishing a Tony Dannon award trophy to be used for fu-

ture international competitions.

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Photos from the Tony Dannon Tribute

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More Dannon Tribute Pictures

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On the heels of the earlier release of a single and two CD music tribute to Tony Dannon (which by

the way is incredible), we are ready to release a 3—DVD set of videos from the Dannon Tribute. It

is a very high quality video with professional three camera filming and editing.

It will be available for sale at the February meeting!

3-DVD set of Dannon Tribute available

at Feb. meeting!

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Accordion History

Edited by Theresa Costello

THE ACCORDION AS A BASIC INSTRUMENT

From an interview with Allen Wciner

(Mr. W einer is a prominent music teacher o f Phoenix, Arizona—Ed. note)

MOST MUSIC EDUCATORS believe that the study of a keyboard instrument is the best way for a music student to begin his career. The reasoning behind this thought is that musical sounds are mechanically reproduced on keyboard instruments as compared with string, brass, or reed instruments, where much effort is necessary to learn to produce a musical sound in tune before the other important aspects of musical study can be seriously considered. This enables the student of a keyboard instrument to grasp the fundamental principles of music much more quickly than those students who begin on some other type of instrument. A student cannot help but benefit from a year or two of study with a keyboard instrument before starting the study of his chosen instrument.

Until not too long ago, the piano was considered the only logical instrument upon which a beginning music student would think of gaining his keyboard experience. However, in recent years, a lusty young rival has entered the arena. Although by no means a new instru-ment, the advantages of the accordion as a basic keyboard instrument are just beginning to be discovered.

The one big advantage that the accordion has over all of its keyboard relatives is that it is portable. The tremendous growth in populari-ty of the accordion in the past years can be traced in part to the large shifting of the population of our country during and after the years of World War II. The heavy piano became a liability to the constantly moving American families during these years. A substitute was sought to continue the musical education of their children. Where else to turn but to the accordion?

The demand was reflected in accordion manufacturers increasing production and accordion music publishers building up music librar-ies for the instrument. Music teachers of other instruments began the study of accordion and soon had their teaching schedules overflow-ing. The accordion has emerged from this period a healthy baby in our family of musical instruments that needs only the continuing care-ful attention that the manufacturers, composers, publishers, and teachers have lavished on other musical instruments in order to continue its healthy growth.

A relatively new development promises to offer the opportunity for the accordion to take another large stride forward in the search for its proper niche among the family of musical instruments. There is an increasing interest in accordion ensemble playing, thus exposing students of keyboard instruments to musical experiences heretofore undreamed of.

In the last few months, various accordion ensemble groups from different parts of the country have given excellent performances of such numbers as Prokofieff's Classical Symphony, Barber of Seville Overture and a portion of the Bizet Symphony.

Those fortunate to have heard these are truly aware of the potentialities of an accordion orchestra. These are the types of performances and ensemble playing that are extremely important in raising the stature of the accordion as a musical instrument and in serving as incen-tives to the novice accordionist.

The value of ensemble training for a music student cannot be overestimated and cannot be started too early in his career. There is no greater joy than learning to play music with others, and there is no means more conducive to good musical training than ensemble partici-pation. The possibilities of a student becoming stagnant are greatly lessened, because the constant contact with other students serves as a spur to more practice.

Since it takes students of string, brass, or reed instruments a relatively long time merely to learn to play in tune, these students cannot look forward to actual group participation as quickly as' would be desired. However, students of keyboard instruments never have this problem, and it is only the accordion student who can look forward with surety to group playing literally after his first lesson, for his instrument has the two attributes that will allow ensemble performances.

Etude - November 1956

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MAS Music page featuring great Accordion music!

New member Villo Marmei likes this one.

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More Music—Page 2

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Member Photos, January Meeting, etc.

Natale Emanuele and his daughter Rosalia.

She has a gorgeous voice and also plays a

mean accordion. They were our featured

performers in January.

Ed Porgony and Pat O’Rourke are popular perform-

ers at nursing homes and we love hearing them too!

Our new membership cards. These will get you discounts

from some of our sponsors, ensure you get the discount rate

at club events, and other accordion national events. This

card shows you belong to a very special organization….to

steal a well known phrase...don’t leave home without it ;-)

AS THE FOUNDER AND PAST PRESIDENT OF THE MICHIGAN ACCORDION SOCIETY, I HEREBY STATE TO YOU, AS I FELT, STANDING

ON THE STAGE, LOOKING AND THINKING AT THE VERY POOR SHOWING OF ATTENDANCE AT THE LAST MEETING OF JANUARY 2013.

IN ALL HONESTY, I WAS EMBARASSED. FROM A TOTAL MEMBERSHIP OF APPROXIMATELY 165, A LITTLE OVER 30 SHOWED UP, AND

SOME OF THEM WERE GUESTS. DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT THIS ACCORDION GROUP CAN STAND STRONG AND SUPPORT THIS

BEAUTIFUL MUSIC WITH SUCH A SERIOUS LACK OF ENTHUSIAM AND SUPPORT? MEMBER JOE GULISH DROVE 60 MILES ONE WAY TO

BE AT THE MEETING. NATALE EMMANUELE DROVE 50 MILES TO BE AT THE MEETING/CONCERT. ANDY DESSO AND OTHER GUESTS

SHOWED UP TO SUPPORT AND ENJOY. ALL I CAN SAY TO THE “NO SHOWS” IS “WHATSA MATTA YOU?” THIS MUSIC CLUB NEEDS A

MINIMUM OF 60 MEMBERS AT THE MEETINGS TO KEEP THE ACCORDION ALIVE AND JOYFUL… DO NOT DROP THE BOX! STEVE PLEASE APPRECIATE WHAT JOE R. AND BOB B. ARE DOING FOR YOU AND THE M.A.S.

Thanks Steve….I agree that ALL of our members need to support YOUR club AND the incredible musicians that perform for us. We can only continue as a club

if our members support us by attending meetings and all of our activities. Bob Berta MAS President

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Vince Cirelli

Vincent Joseph Cirelli

December 21,1920 - September 29, 2012

In the first half of the 20th Century, you couldn't walk down the

streets of the North Beach district of San Francisco without hear-

ing the sometimes sweet and sometimes raucous sounds of the

accordion wafting out of open windows. North Beach was consid-

ered the hub of accordion culture, host not only to the many Ital-

ian immigrants among whom the accordion was most popular, but

also a flourishing accordion manufacturing industry.

This was the environment in which one of

the true accordion heroes, Vince Cirelli,

was born and raised. Vince was born in

December of 1920 to Felice and Carmela

Cirelli in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood

of North Beach. Vince's father Felice had

emigrated from the small town of Ver-

bicaro in the Cosenza province of Calabria,

Italy in 1905, arriving in San Francisco in

1906 at the age of 18, just two weeks after

the Great San Francisco Earthquake. Be-

sidesdoing manual labor and eventually

starting a barber shop business, Felice per-

formed at an old Chinese vaudeville thea-

ter on what was then the "Barbary Coast."

At the age of 9, Vince recalled hearing the

sound of an accordion coming from an

open window across the street while he

was outside playing. He was transfixed.

Shortly diereafter, his father rented an ac-

cordion for $5 a month, and the now 10-

year old Vince began accordion instruction with Emilio Civita, a

graduate of the Conservatory of Music in Milan. By age 12, Vince

was playing Italian-style standards at parties and sing-alongs. It

was also at the age of 12 that Vince's interest and dedication to the

accordion was noticed by Faust Piatanese of Colombo and Sons

Accordion Corporation. Piatanese offered Vince a part-time job

after school as a shop helper at the Colombo and Sons accordion

factory. It was this first job that introduced Vince to the world of

accordion manufacture and sparked his dream of one day building

his own accordions.

During his attendance at Galileo High School in San Francisco,

Vince began to develop and refine skills that would transform him

into the master craftsman he would later become.

Attending both day and night classes in woodworking and cabinet

making, Vince utilized every resource for making accordion parts.

It is no surprise that he began to design and build his first model

while still in high school.

When Vince graduated, he returned to working at Colombo and

Sons, no longer as a shop boy, but working right alongside the

master craftsmen Mario Zanoni, Angelo Pietri and Chuck Zanoni

and master tuner Eric Gylling.

The United States became actively involved in WWII and Vince

answered the call of his country in 1941, serving in the US Coast

Guard for 4 years. When he returned home, Vince was able to

complete the first of seven Cirelli accordions, whose progress had

been interrupted by the war. Deciding to put his first opus to the

test (140 bass buttons, 43 treble keys and over

5,000 parts) he spent the next several years play-

ing accordion across the country, entertaining

onboard "train tours" sponsored by the Knights

of Columbus. He finally returned home for good

and in 1946, Vince established Cirelli Accordi-

on Service. Initially he began making accordion

parts including bass and treble shells for the

Pacific Accordion Company. Later in the year,

Caesar Pezzolo, a well-known composer and

teacher, engaged Cirelli to upgrade his line of

imported accordions specifically for the Ameri-

can market. The design revisions incorporated

by Vince greatly improved the instrument and

were sent back to the factory in Italy. The accor-

dion, La Melodiosa, was a success and consid-

ered by many artists to be one of the finest in-

struments produced at the time.

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n 1949, Vince married Ann Victoria Pirolo and

settled down, focusing his career primarily on

repairing, tuning and teaching the accordion.

Cirelli Accordion Service was contracted by West Coast Whole-

sale Music, H.C. Kessler and Pacific Music Supply Company to

be their technician. Vince inspected and serviced virtually every

new Frontalini, V. Soprani and Galanti accordion received by

these companies. If you own one of diese instruments today, it is

quite likely that Vince gave it its first inspection this side of the

Atlantic.

In 1963, through world-renowned recording artist Michael Corino,

Vince was introduced to Lee Deiro, owner of Pietro Deiro Publi-

cations founded by Lee's father. Soon, Cirelli Accordion Service

became the exclusive West Coast distributor for Pietro Deiro Pub-

lications - one of the world's largest publishing houses of accordi-

on music. In the same year, Vince was approached by Mario and

Edward Pancotti of the Excelsior Accordion Company, looking to

While not as well known in Michigan, Vince was one of the giants of the accordion. He wasn’t known for his playing ability though

he was a fine player. Instead he was an Accordion Repairman extraordinaire. How many people were there in the early days of the

accordion, could build a complete accordion, not just assemble them? I had the pleasure of knowing him as a friend and spent many

hours in his shop documenting the restoration of Guido Deiros accordion that now resides in the museum in Castelfidaro. He sup-

plied most of the material in several historical books on the accordion during what is known as the “Golden Age of the Accordion”

One of my own accordions is a 60s vintage Bugari that he completely rebuilt into a remarkable instrument. Bob Berta

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More about Vince

establish a full-service Bay Area dealership through Cirelli Ac-

cordion Service. Vince sold and serviced the Excelsior line of

accordions for more than 27 years.

While slowing down a bit with age and time, Vince remained

dedicated to his career with the accordion and is known and

recognized as a master craftsman. Vince also has been generous

with his time, and in passing on his many years of experience to

future generations interested in accordion repair. Vince men-

tored and tutored local repair people Kimric Smythe of the

Smythe's Accordion Center in Oakland and most recently Sky-

ler Fell of the Accordion Apocalypse Repair Shop in San Fran-

cisco. Vince characterizes his repair method as "hands on,"

using all 5 senses.

So what became of those seven custom-built Cirelli accordions?

There are only two known to remain. One was given back to

Vince when the owner died. The other, the very first accordion

he ever made, was stolen from Vince's home many years ago,

until a friend spotted it for sale in the window of a music shop.

The instrument was returned to Vince, who vowed to never let

it out of his sight.

"I am eternally grateful to the San Francisco pioneers of the

accordion manufacturing industry. Without their generosity and

support I would not have been able to learn this fascinating

trade. My life has truly been enriched by the many talented

artists and kind friends that play this remarkable instrument."

Vincent J. Cirelli

Vince Cirelli passed away on September 29,2012. The pass-

ing of this true accordion giant represents not only the loss

of an accordion repair person, but the greater loss of some-

one who was an innovator, a master craftsman, a mentor, a

historian and a true contributor to the glory days of the

accordion.

Vince, you were unique! We will miss you so very much!

We extend our deepest sympathy to his children Dianne

Marie Smith and Vincent Felice Cirelli and their families.

Compiled by Randall Hicks

Note from Randall: Neither all of the words nor the infor-

mation above are entirely original. I am indebted to three

primary sources for the variety of information on the life of

Vince Cirelli. The above is offered as a compilation of the

best of all three sources into a summary for our Newsletter.

Addendum from the editor:

Over the last few years the accordion world has lost

many of its greats. It is important that the rest of us

do our best to make sure that those greats won’t be

forgotten. But it is also our duty to make sure that we

encourage other youngsters and those “young at

heart” to continue promoting, playing and sharing

our love of the accordion with the public.

The accordion fell out of favor for a while here in

the US but those of us who kept our “dream” alive

know that our efforts are finally having an effect.

The strains of accordion music are frequently heard

in advertisements, TV, movies and as part of modern

music groups of all genres.

And the new innovations in accordions such as the

Roland electronic accordion have caught the publics

attention as witnessed by the number of those accor-

dions sold and heard in many recordings. All one has

to is go to YouTube and search for Roland Accordi-

on. It is amazing how many recordings are there.

While there are some who shun these new versions

of the accordion as not a “true” accordion, the bot-

tom line is…. if ANY type of accordion helps to

increase the accordions popularity, public ac-

ceptance, and most important, get kids eager to learn

how to play one...we are doing something right.

A famous story tells of Argentine tango great, Astor

Piazolla. He was being interviewed at a radio station

when someone who disliked his “new” style of tango

music broke in with a pistol and threatened him .His

“new” form of Tango music borrowed from many

other musical styles such as jazz. Thankfully he sur-

vived that threat and his music is now seen as the

very soul of Argentinas tango tradition. And he is

considered an extraordinary composer and his music

is played throughout the world by top orchestras.

In short I am asking you to be open to new musical

experiences. You may not care for something at

first...but give it a while and you may become a fan

yourself. The accordion can only continue its climb

upward when we all support ANY music played on

the many variations of the accordion.

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More MAS Tidbits

June is National Accordion Awareness Month (NAAM). National Accordion Awareness Month was established in 1989 to pro-mote the accordion, help spread the word about the resurgence in popularity in the accordion and to educate people about the accordion. Tom Torriglia of San Francisco, CA. established the month of June as National Accordion Awareness Month. Did you know? 1. The piano accordion is the official musical instrument of the city of San Francisco and has been since 1990 The cities of Detroit, Skokie, Illinois, and St. Paul, Minnesota have designated the accordion as their official instrument also. 2. Actress Lucy Liu plays the accordion 3. Guitarist Nils Lofgren started on the accordion. 4. Billy Joel and Barry Manilow also play the accordion. 5. The accordion is a member of the reed family, not the keyboard family. 6. The first United States-made piano accordion (ones with the keys on it) was manufactured in San Francisco back in 1907. It was at the Guerrini Accordion Company on DuPont St. (Grant Ave., near Columbus Ave.) 7. In addition to the piano accordion, the accordion family also includes Cajun button boxes, chromatic and diatonic button accordions, the concertina, the bayan, and the bandoneon. 8. Shania Twain's immensely popular Come On Over CD has accordion on a couple of tracks. Los Lobos. Bruce Hornsby plays the accordion and uses it in shows. Counting Crows uses accordion a lot. In San Francisco, the show Forever Tango was a huge hit and featured two bandoneonists. 9. China is the largest manufacturer and exporter of accordions in the world. 10. Your accordion knows you love it….you hug it every time you play it ;-) 11. Singer Bobby McFarrin works frequently with accordionist Gil Goldstein. 12. John Smoltz is a Major league baseball player who plays the accordion. 13. Famous people who played the accordion: Richard Nixon and H. Ross Perot; actors James Stewart, Drew Carey and Charlie Chaplin; novelists Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy; baseball pitcher John Smoltz; and Mahatma Gandhi. 15. Former Boston Celtics player Tony Lavelli (1926-1998) used to play his accordion at half time. 16. Elvis Presley played the accordion.

WHERE CAN YOU GO TO HEAR ACCORDIONS?

Are you playing accordion around town? If so you may want to let others in the club know

where...that is one of the FREE benefits of being a paid member of MAS. If you want to be

listed here give Bob Berta a call at 586-992-0498. (members only!!)

Ted Pavlik Melody Makers is playing the following dates at the Richmond, Michigan KofC Hall:

January 27th, February 24th, March 24th, April 28th 2:00until 6:00pm

Bob Berta plays Fridays starting after Ash Wednesday to Easter (but not Good Friday) at St. John Vianney Catholic

church Fish Fry in Shelby Twp. On Schoenherr between 24 and 25 Mile Rd. from 4:30pm to 7:00pm

Joe Recchia will be performing at the National Accordion Association circle of champions in Dallas, Texas the first

week of March at the Weston Hotel. He will also give a workshop on Tony Dannon jazz. More info at:

http://www.nationalaccordion.org/

AND OF COURSE YOU CAN HEAR LOTS OF ACCORDION MUSIC AT OUR MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP

MEETING….THIRD TUESDAY EVERY MONTH...SEE YOU THERE!!

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IF YOU WISH TO PROVIDE A FUTURE ARTICLE OR PHOTO CONTACT BOB or JOE. WE ALWAYS NEED ITEMS FOR OUR NEWS-

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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 Programs: $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:____________________

Michigan Accordion Society– The winner of the 2012 Frosini Award

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MAS Last Note News

Attention MAS Members…..don’t forget one of your Membership Perks! We have 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 so they can select an accordion performer accordingly. In order to be on this

list you must be a current MAS member. If you are interested in being 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 your part and help support the Michigan Ac-

cordion Society by attracting more members to our club to join, with out members were nothing!

As always we look for comments so please let us know how we are doing! And if you care to write an article

or see something interesting that others might enjoy...send it to Bob Berta or Joe Recchia for a future issue.

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