Accordions Worldwide Founder Harley Jones will be the special honored guest at the July 2018 ATG Festival in Lisle, Il. from July 25-28, 2018.
Excerpts from the ATG website:
In 1996, Harley Jones started the Accordions Worldwide group of internet sites. These include: accordions.com, akkordeon.com and accordeon.com, AccordionUSA.com the largest and most visited accordion internet sites in the world. These sites provide advertising banners for companies and artists with a very large readership attracted by such accordion community services as: Weekly News in 8 languages, US monthly news, CD Reviews, Celebrity Interviews, Articles, major event reports etc.
Additional sites include: accordion yellow pages Search-Accordion AccordionLinks.com largest accordion links site in the world, MusicForAccordion.com a site which sells eSheet music (sent by email to the client), CD’s for world known artists, music catalogs for publishers in different parts of the world.
Harley Jones is a virtuoso accordionist. He has appeared on T.V. and National Radio in New Zealand many times, and has performed extensively in the USA, Canada, England, Germany, Holland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Hong Kong, Singapore and China as well as his home country of New Zealand.
Harley was soloist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra on a CD of symphony orchestra works composed by Gary Daverne, recorded in 1992 and now released internationally by EMI. “Rhapsody for Accordion and Orchestra” was written by New Zealand composer Gary Daverne especially for Harley Jones.
He premiered this work in New Zealand with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer (December 1987). He performed “Rhapsody” at the International Piano Accordion Competition and Festival in New York (August 1988) and at the Prize Giving of the 1990 Coupe Mondiale held in Germany in 1990. Harley has performed this work over 120 times worldwide, usually with composer Gary Daverne as the conductor, including Europe, North America, Australasia, China and Turkey.
Harley Jones has been involved with the Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes (CIA) for many years, having been an adjudicator on a number of occasions and Chairman of the Coupe Mondiale Adjudicators in 1976 in Washington. He has served on the Music Committee for the CIA for about 16 years (the committee which guides all aspects of the Coupe Mondiale competitions) and is currently the Public Relations Officer for the CIA and has been a CIA Executive member for some 16 years.
The ATG looks forward to welcoming Harley Jones as their special honored guest.
