LINKS 
The following are some links for interest we thought
you might enjoy
Some local links:
Leavenworth Chamber find
out more about "The Bavarian Village", including accommodations,
restaurants, shopping and the many other activities in and around
Leavenworth
find
out more about "The Bavarian Village", including accommodations,
restaurants, shopping and the many other activities in and around
Leavenworth
Other accordion events and festivals:
Cotati
Accordion Festival - takes place annually in August in Cotati, CA.
Kimberley International
Old Time Accordion Championships held in Kimberly, BC in
July.
Rocky Mountain Accordion
Festival-generally held in Ausgust in Philipsburg, Montana
Accordion sites:
Accordion
Lovers Society forum for appreciating and playing accordion music. Features
links, accordion yellow pages, and schedule of events.
Button
Box, The - specializes in accordion and concertina sales
and repairs and has a selection of books, recordings, and accessories
in stock. Located in Amherst, MA.
American
Accordionists Association - dedicated to stimulating
awareness and appreciation for the accordion, as well as promoting
unity within the accordion community.
Petosa
Accordions - makers of accordions. Site features history
of the company, an online exhibit, and web pages for accordion
artists.
Accordion Names Around the World - the accordion has
many different names around the world. This list, compiled by
Wendy Morrison of The House of Music Traditions, attempts to
catalog them all.
Bay Area Accordion Club - Bay Area Accordion Club
promotes accordion music and musicianship and is a non-profit
organization.
Chicago
Accordion Club - a nonprofit organization dedicated
to the promotion of accordion music and musicianship
in the Chicago area.
Squeezeboxes
on the Silver Screen - this interesting page is a list of
movie soundtracks where the accordion is a featured instrument, either
seen, heard or both.
Accordion
Instructors of the Greater Pacific NW. Names and contact
information for instructors in the greater Seattle area as well as
Washington, Oregon and Idaho.
Third Coast Accordion Network -
3CAN, as the network is commonly called, is a loosely organized group
of accordionists and accordion aficionados.
Accordion Club
of Tucson - founded in 1998, ACT's purpose is to promote
accordion playing in the Southern Arizona area.
Accordion Club -
The San Francisco Bay Area Accordion Club is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to the promotion of accordion music and musicianship in
Northern California.
Accordion Store -
accordion accessories, calendars, videos, toys, etc. Also accessible
on the web as polka-store.com.
Accordion Links -
Jeroen Nijhof in the Netherlands has compiled an extensive list of
links related to the accordion. A great place to start searching
for accordion info.
Accordions Worldwide is
a very large and popular internet site, with weekly accordion news,
CD reviews and a yellow pages directory of accordion artists.
Accordion USA is
a national news publication for accordionists.
Accordion
Teachers Guild, International - non-profit organization dedicated
to the advancement of the accordion, through raising of teaching standards.
American
Accordionists Association - dedicated to stimulating awareness
and appreciation for the accordion, as well as promoting unity
within the accordion community.
Classical
Free-Reed, The - non-profit educational and cultural organization
dedicated to the advancement of free-reed instruments in classical
music.
Accordion
Lovers Society forum for appreciating and playing accordion
music. Features links, accordion yellow pages, and schedule of
events.
Button
Box, The - specializes in accordion and concertina sales
and repairs and has a selection of books, recordings, and accessories
in stock. Located in Amherst, MA.
American
Accordionists Association - dedicated to stimulating awareness
and appreciation for the accordion, as well as promoting unity
within the accordion community.
Texas
Accordion Association - promotes the performance of all
types of music on the accordion
Dick
Contino: The Accordion Man - features biography and links.
The
Big Squeeze - Reviews of accordion music from around
the world: folk, jazz and avant garde
*Thanks to Petosa Accordions for some of the above links
