The summer performance schedule of the Harrington ARTS Center is listed below. A World of Accordions Musem is located at 1401 Belknap Street, Superior, Wisconsin 54880. Helmi Strahl Harrington, Ph.D is the Curator of the World of Accordions Musem and Lead Instructor in Accordion-concertina Repair and Technicians’ School. The phone number is 715-395-2787.
Email: accordion@sprynet.com

May 3 Accordion Concertina Music Studios: Student Recital
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome
May 8 HARTS and AWAM display at the Depot, Duluth:Northland History Museums
Coalition event: Discover History Fair. Free and open to the public
May 23 Ethnic Evening: Finnish / Scandinavian 7:00 PM
Music, History, Songs and Legends, Food and Jam Session
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome
June 20 Ethnic Evening: Slovenian / Eastern European 7:00 PM
Music, History, Songs and Legends, Food and Jam Session
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome
July 4 Superior Parade – Float with ACM Band performing
July 4 Carlton County Historical Society: ACM Band/Soloists Concert
Free and open to the public. Donations to CCHS welcome
July 15 Alex Meixner interview on radio (pending)
July 16-18 Third Annual Dr. Willard A. Palmer Festival and Fundraiser
Focus: Willard Palmer, III
Historic Accordions Sounded and Explained: Helmi Harrington
Helmi’s guided tour of Museum displays, American Accordionists’
Association Archival Collection, Deffner Legacy Room, and
Library resources
Alex Meixner: Workshop 5:00 PM, Band Concert 7:00 PM, July 16
Dr. Anthony Bukoski: Readings and Music
Willard Palmer, III: Master of Music and Magic
Paul Vargason: Piano-, Chromatic-, and Diatonic Accordionist
Frank Busso, Jr. (Titano/Pancordion executive, concert pending )
Amanda Bush-Hauta: Soprano and Accordionist
Helmi’s Workshop: “Interpretation: It’s Not Written in the Notes”
Jam sessions
Membership Open Meeting; AWAM Board Meeting
Food and Refreshments
Admission charged
July 18-21 Accelerated Accordion Repair Seminar
Advanced piano accordion repair seminar: tuning, machine alignments, bellows, cosmetics, much more. 4:00 PM July 18 til noon July 21.
$350 per person
July 22-25 Accordionists and Teachers Guild Festival (Lisle, IL)
AWAM Traveling Museum Display
Helmi’s History Workshop: Accordions Sounded on Historic Instruments,
Organological Evolution, Types, Qualities, more
Accordion Concertina Music Band and Students Perform / Compete
August 22 Ethnic Evening: French and Musettes 7:00 PM
Music, History, Songs and Legends, Food and Jam Session
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome
September 19 Ethnic Evening: Latin and Tango 7:00 PM
Music, History, Songs and Legends, Food and Jam Session
Free and open to the public. Donations welcome
November 8 John Scaffeo Concert 4:00 PM
Admission charged

Please watch the website www.accordionworld.org for further information.