Picture above: – Cory Pesaturo received a Lifetime Membership Emeritus from the Michigan Accordion Society, presented by Joe Recchia, President of the Michigan Accordion Society. Cory is quite possibly the youngest ever recipient.

At the Las Vegas Convention, Cory performed a concert on Guido Deiro’s earliest surviving accordion (picture right), a 1929 Custom Guerrini which was purchased by Guido’s son, Count Robert Guido Deiro Jr.

(Some further information to hand: There is an older accordion at “A World of Accordions Museum” Superior, WI, which Henry Doktorski helped arrange to place there. He even performed a concert on it.

The two historic accordions played by Guido and Pietro, built by the Guerrini Company in San Francisco in 1926 and 1917 respectively, were donated to A World of Accordions Museum by Guido’s son, Count Guido Roberto Deiro [in collaboration with Dr. Allan A. Atlas, curator of the Deiro Archive at the Center for the Study of Free-Reed Instruments at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York], and Pietro’s granddaughter, Sandra Deiro Cattani. How wonderful that these historic instruments have been kept as an important part of our history and also kept in playing order.)

Cory played pieces to commemorate important accordionists throughout his life, including Charlie Nunzio, Tony Dannon, Tommy Gumina, and even had his dad perform a song with him! It was the first time they had ever played together publicly, and moreover, was the first time his father had seen him perform a concert outside of New England; just making for an even more special evening.

Of course tunes by Dick Contino were performed, and Dick’s wife, Judy, came to see the concert. Cory ended the show with a version of Tony Lovello’s Malaguena.

Furthermore, Guido Deiro Jr. and Judy had strangely never met until this night, even though they always lived fairly close to each other, and the fact that Guido Diero taught Dick Contino at times in the 1940’s, and of course, Guido and Dick were two very famous accordionists in our USA accordion history.

– Museum of Fine Arts in Boston performance on historic accordions we are gathering for the museums collection.

– Played the Boston TED Event (same TED that I did my TED Talk for).

– Met with the accordionists of the 2 very popular bands in the US that use accordion: Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly, and Johnny Kongos of The Kongos.

Upcoming Performances include:

– Concerts in Montreal with Sergiu Popa throughout the week of December 4-8, 2017/.

– Concert with Mari Black on Violin in Milton, MA at the First Parish Church for the Milton Music Series on December 2nd.

– Jazz Concert at the Sahara Jazz Club on December 12, 2017.

For further information: cory.pesaturo@gmail.com

Picture below: A humorous “red hat” fun part of the Las Vegas Festival.