Let’s Celebrate ! Oktoberfest with Music on Sunday, October 10, 4:00-7:00 PM at A World of Accordions, 1401 Belknap St., Superior, WI.
Admission is free.

Program includes:
1. Renowned Former Senator Florian Chmielewski and friends.
2. Accomplished artist Paul Vargason will perform on Lorren Lindevig’s PanCordion, Ronny Setniker’s Half-Chromatic, Helmi-designed Slovenian Button Diatonic, and maybe more!
3. Cheryl Husby’s Ukulele Band
4. Accordion Concertina Music Studio Band

Helmi Harrington founded A World of Accordions Museum and Harrington ARTS Center and also established the curriculum for and teaches accordion repair. She has been recognized in various Who’s Who listings, through regional awards and the Confederation des Accordeonistes Internationale (CIA) (2006). She is writer of accordion-related articles for Groves New Dictionary of Music (London, 2000 Edition), the American Accordionists’ Association Newsletter and various scholarly journals, compiled and edited Charles Magnante: America’s Great Accordionist, and has ca. 60 music books and recordings available through Harrington ARTS Center Publications.

Helmi completed a Ph.D. dissertation in Musicology on composer Hugo Herrmann under Dr. John Grubbs of the University of Texas, a double Master of Music degree from the University of Houston in Music Literature and Applied Piano under Dr. Elmer Schoettle, a Bachelor of Music degree in Applied Piano and Performer’s Certificate from the University of Houston under Prof. Albert Hirsh. She studied with Dr. Armin Fett of the Staedtische Musikschule Trossingen, from which she received an honorary degree, and Dr. Albert Feil of the Universität Stuttgart. Her many awards include a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst scholarship. She holds certificates as Master teacher in accordion and piano from the National Music Teachers’ Association and the Minnesota Music Teachers’ Association.

Future classes pertaining to antique accordions will include Tuning, Bellows Work, Bass Mechanics and general aesthetics and restoration. For more information about A World of Accordions Museum, please visit www.worldofaccordions.org.

For more information: aworldofaccordions@gmail.com