The National Accordion Association (NAA) Convention will be held from March 15-19, 2023 at the Hilton Hotel, Richardson, Texas.

The 2023 NAA Convention Planning Team is requesting that the conventioneers and presenters use Higher Learning techniques to flip the NAA Convention from a lecture-oriented event to a Participatory Model as described in the Harvard University article: Twenty Ways To Make Lectures More Participatory: TwentyWays.pdf

The first step in “flipping a convention” is to survey the known accordion-playing population to ask accordionists what they want to learn when attending an accordion convention. The You Tell Us Survey was delivered, the results were analyzed. A summary of the easy-to-read results are online: 2022NAA-Survey

2023 National Accordion Association (NAA) Convention Musical Genres:
The convention will feature 2023 versions of American Music that is marketable as today’s music. The music is a combination of contemporary American music originated by USA immigrants who brought their musical values and traditions as they joined the great American melting pot. Our music is a blend of musical styles that include, but are not limited to, popular tunes, folk music, country and western (C&W), ballads that tell a story, rock and roll, polkas and waltzes, European music, Gospel, and jazz. (Results summarized by Dr. Norman Seaton)

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