Announcing the 2014 American Accordionists’ Association (AAA) Festival, which will be held in picturesque, historic Tarrytown, NY on the Hudson River, July 9-13, 2014. Get your reservations now at the Doubletree Hotel (on the waterfront!) in Tarrytown (914-631-5700) for the AAA special group discount.

Featured artists include Vladimir Mollov, who will perform and also lead the Youth Jazz Ensemble; Dallas Vietty; Guy Klucevsek accompanied by violinist Todd Reynolds; Steve Albini on Roland accordion & vocals; Mario Tacca and Friends (Julie Cardona, Beverly Roberts Curnow and Mary Tokarski); Dr. Robert McMahan; Frank Carozza and others.

There will be exciting workshops, including one on Balkan ornamentation by Lauren Brody (see separate article on Lauren), and one on Chinese music and musical notation by Yimeng Huang. The festival orchestra will be conducted by our AAA President, Linda Soley Reed, and our youth orchestra will be conducted by Mary Tokarski. There will be many exhibitors of accordions and accordion-related material, an accordion museum exhibit and the AAA Archives.

Download competition rules, required composition list, festival registration forms, entry forms and other information at: 2014Tarrytown

Registration forms and more info is now online at: www.ameraccord.com. Hope to see you there!