The Connecticut Accordion Association presents a Pops Concert, “Bellows Open: The Great Squeeze Project” on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at 3:PM at the Mattatuck Museum, 144 West Main St., Waterbury, CT. 06702. Conductor Peter Peluso will lead a program including rock, jazz and movie classics.

The concert is named after a grant program called “Bellows Open: The Great Squeeze Project” which CTA President Marilyn O’Neil obtained. The program was designed to introduce band students at Wolcott High School to the accordion and several of the students from Walcott High School’s Band Program will join the Connecticut group on their instruments.

This program is supported in part by the Arts and Culture Collaborative, Waterbury Region, in partnership with the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Connecticut Acccordion Association began in 2004, the brainchild of Marilyn O’Neil and her accordion teacher, Mary Tokarski. The CAA is dedicated to the promotion of the accordion through all music genres and all variations of accordion instruments! Welcomed are musicians who play all types of accordions….piano accordion, diatonic, chromatic button and more. accordionists at all levels, and people who may not play the accordion, but love to listen are invited.

The Connecticut Accordion Association goals are:
To promote public interest in the accordion through public awareness.
To hold gatherings, concerts and other activities throughout the state of CT.
To act as a resource to provide referrals in accordion instruction, repair, sales and/or trade, sheet music, accessories, etc.
To network with fellow associations throughout the USA in an effort to provide unity within the accordion world.

For further information: Marilyn@CTAccordion.com or call 203-272-1202