SHIRLEY AND CHRISTINE O'ROURKE. TOM BAINES. LES KERRIDGE. OLIVE ROSE. JEAN HODGSON. JOAN DURHAM JOHN WOOD.DAVID RODWAY. MARGARET AND ROB TRIGG,CAMPBELL DAVIDSON. KEN LIGHTFOOT. DAVID ARMSTRONG.ANDY ALEXANDER AUDREY WATSON.DAVID GRAYSON.BETTY THORNTON. ALAN THOMAS.TERRY LAMBERT. BARRY WELBURN JOAN BENNISON. ANNE JONES. BERT PAGE, LEN BENSON. WILF LOCKHEED. BRIAN WALKER.LEE TAYLOR,PATWEIGHELL HENRY BALLANTINE GEORGE WOOD SHIRLEY JOHNSTONE. SID BENNISON
Influences
Accordion music from all over the world but mainly Europe
Old music from the mid 90's when the accordion was played regularly in pubs bars and dance halls.
Sing-a-long music.
Sounds Like
Current program of music being practised every fortnight at the meeting venue at Stainton Memorial Hall is shown below. The current practise days are Apr 26,May 9,May23, Jun 6,Jun20,Jul 4,Jul18,Aug 1,Aug15,Sep 12,Sept 26,Oct10,Oct24,Nov7,Nov21,Dec5,Dec19 (which may have to be changed due to hall requirements) contact Tom Baines on 01642 590781 to be sure.
CURRENT PROGRAM No6 Summer 08
1)On the quarter deck
2)Fascination
3)Tobermory 2 step.
4)Green green grass of home.
5)Stern Polka.
6)Alpine slopes.
7)Serenella Polka.
8)Vienna city of my dreams.
9)3 Tango's Sel. (Spanish eyes etc)
10)Gantock waltz.
11)Ole Guapa.
12)Ruby wedding waltz.
13)Nine hundred miles(American song)
14Birth of the Blues.
15)Loves roundabout.
16)Fat's Waller sel (my very good friend)
17)Auchtermuchy Gala March.
18)Cruising down the River Sel.
19)April in Portugal.
20)Nabucco(Verdi)
21)Gay Gordons.
22)Kufsteiner Lied.
23)American Patrol
24)Georgia Brown Sel.
25)Oklahoma
26)Blue moon sel.
27)Valeta Waltz.
28)Scottish March.
29)Waltz from the Jazz Suite.
30)March Selection
31)A mouse lived in a Windmill.
32)Puffin Billy.
THE ACCORDION WORKSHOP GROUP MIDDLESBROUGH.
A HISTORY OF THE GROUP
In 1970/71 an article, in the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette by Adrian Bull, asked for any Accordion players or beginners interested in starting a regular meeting to learn,play or practise to meet at Thornaby Pavillion to discuss the idea.
About 75 people attended,all Accordionist's,with different diciplines and some young people who wished to learn to play.
We were eventually left with a nucleus of people which included Les Kerridge,Tom Baines,Shirley and Christine O'Rourke,Bob Simpson,Bob Frier and Arthur Metcalf and many more. Sadly some of these people are now deceased.
After meeting regularly every two weeks at the Thornaby Pavillion we were asked to entertain some pensioner groups and so the" Cleveland Accordionaires" were born! We played together over a period of over 30 years and became well known locally in the Teesside and surrounding area.
Over this period we sadly lost many of our younger players due to ongoing pressures of everyday life.
We used the Pavillion for 20 years but space became a problem and so in 1995 we moved to Stainton Memorial Hall in Stainton Village and continue to meet there to this day. In 2004 the Cleveland Accordionaires retired from entertaining local groups but we still meet every fortnight to play and enjoy ourselves.
We use the "Hall" as a concert venue and have hosted names from the accordion world such as, Pearl Fawcett-Adriano, Ron Hodgson and Julie Best,Gordon Glenn,Jack Embloe and Tony Compton,Alexander Korbakov,David Lukins,Harry Hussey,David Vernon,Steve Roxton and Lisa Lee Leslie.
A number of new members have joined us over the past few years and we encourage anyone with musical interests in the bellows type instrument to try us out.
The current program of music being played is displayed below.
Future concerts will also be posted.
In 2007 four members joined together to play music that would not have been suitable for the larger group of players meeting in the workshop. This group who call themselves Quad Accord have played in a number of local concerts, including for the Workshop, and are looking for future venues to play their arrangements.
The program of music being played by the main group on Sat afternoon's is listed below.
Tom Baines.
Hi, thanks for adding me. Great sound you have! If you are ever stuck for somewhere to rehearse I'm sure I could accomodate you all at Room-Two. www. room-two. co. uk. Cheers,
