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COMING TO OUR JANUARAY 18TH MEETING Vince Abbracciante!!!
Born in Ostuni, Italy, in 1983. He is the artistic son of a family of accordionists. From an early age, with his father, he studied music and accordion. He studied and/or attended clinics with Franco D’Andrea, Bruno Tommaso, Gianni Lenoci, Stefano Battaglia, Mirko Signorile, Richard Galliano, Joelle Leandre, Steve Potts and Roberto Gatto e Dado Moroni. Since 2000 he is the official demonstrator for Borsini. Vince and his Borsini have performed many concerts in Italy, England, Germany, Austria, Denmark and Canada In 2000 he won the varietè entertainment category at the 25th International Championship in Castelfidardo and in 2003 he won the 53rd Trophèe Mondial. He has been a guest on a number of local and RAI television programs. Since 2003 he is playing with the group “The Bumps” (with Davide Penta on double bass and Antonio Di Lorenzo on drums). The group has recorded 3 albums, the last issued by Universal music, is preparing a new album based on italian sound tracks of films from '60 and '70 with songs written by Morricone, Trovajoli, Piccioni, Umilinani and others He has also preformed with: Lucio Dalla, Marc Ribot, Flavio Boltro, Gaetano Partipilo, Carlo Actis Dato, Vito Di Modugno, Giuseppe Delre, Vincenzo Deluci, Roberto Ottaviano, Guido Di Leone, Paola Arnesano, Pippo Ark D’Ambrosio, Nando Di Modugno, Enzo Cavalli, Walter Grassman, Hannes Strasser, and Alexander Meik



The Arizona Accordion Club Youth Program launch was held on August 18, 2009 at the New World Education Center in Phoenix. Check out this slideshow of the assembly of the entire 1st through 4th grade.
The 4th Graders will take part in a 2 hr per week class for the entire school year, centered around the accordion and music theory.

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