Victoria Accordion Club Band Performs for World Accordion Day
June 1st 2021
Rita Davidson Barnea, Editor Accordion USA News

Video: “Blue Tango” by the Victoria Accordion Club Band
The Victoria Accordion Club Band performed “Blue Tango” for WAD in May 2021. “Blue Tango” is an instrumental composition by Leroy Anderson, written for orchestra in 1951 and published in 1952. Anderson originally wrote “Blue Tango” for an orchestra consisting of two flutes, one piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets in B-Flat, two bassoons; four horns in F, three trumpets in B-Flat, two tenor trombones, bass trombone, tuba; a percussion section consisting of snare drum, bass drum and glockenspiel; and strings.
The Victoria Accordion Club started in 2002 as a small gathering of interested accordion players in the Victoria area. Presently there are over 50 members who come from as far as away as Nanaimo (2 hours north of Victoria).
The aim of the Victoria Accordion Club is to enjoy the accordion, the music of accordions, and the people who create it here in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Everyone is welcome! The VAC band is made up of 10 – 15 accordionists, ranging in levels from beginner to advanced. The band was formed 2002, with the creation of the Victoria Accordion Club.

The music of the VAC Band includes a wide variety of songs. Music ranges from popular international songs, such as Mexican Hat Dance and Chiapanecas, to classical (Scheherazade) to waltzes (Life in the Finland Woods) to tangos (Scent of a Woman) and even jazz (Swanee River) and rock’n roll. The group plays range of European ethnic music as well. And, of course, the band plays the ever-popular and lively polkas.
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