Save the Date: Frank Busso, Sr. To Receive the 2022 AAA Lifetime Achievement Award

July 1st 2021
Joan Grauman Morse, AAA Historian
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Frank Busso Sr.

I am sure I speak for all when I say that accordionists cannot wait to get back together, in person, again soon!! The members of the AAA Governing Board are no exception.

We are enthusiastically planning the 2022 AAA Festival, which will take place July 13-17, 2022, at the Marriott Philadelphia West, 111 Crawford Ave, Conshohocken, PA 19428. At the AAA Festival, long-time AAA Board member, Frank Busso Sr., will receive the AAA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Frank has faithfully served the AAA as Treasurer, Vice-President, President (1981, 1992-94), and has also chaired many committees including the annual national festivals, and the Young Artists Concert Series. He held the position of the Comptroller of the AAA for many years.

For decades, Frank has been an educator, performer, conductor and all-around ambassador of the accordion. Attached is the feature article from the 2017 AAA Festival Journal: “Spotlight on Frank Busso Sr.”. It is an enjoyable, heartwarming and enlightening biography of a man whose life revolved around his love of the accordion, the national accordion community, and his family.

You might ask, “What has happened since 2017?” One delightful bit of news: Frank’s twin granddaughters, Julianna and Francesca, are now studying the accordion with their father, Frank Busso Jr. All of the Busso grandchildren are now accordionists! Let’s hope we can hear the “Busso Octet” perform for us at the 2022 AAA Festival!

Photo below L to R:  Christina Busso Lammers, Alexander Lammers, Frank Busso Sr., TV news reporter, Caroline Lammers, Frank Busso Jr., and Nicholas Busso at the 2018 AAA Festival, Alexandria, VA.

Read: “Spotlight on Frank Busso Sr.”.

Busso Family 2018