Leyland Accordion Club

The above video is a 4 minute section of our latest guest artist concert with Julie Best and Jean Corrighan.

We meet thirty six times per year at The Priory Club, Broadfield Drive, Leyland, Lancashire, England, PR25 1QN, we hold a concert on the third Wednesday of every month, a professional guest artist features on alternate months. Our local players are the special guest artists on the months in between. Each month we have a practice night which is an excuse for us to get together drinking coffee, talking about all things accordion, playing, making new friends and generally having a good time.

Leyland Accordion Club meet on the first, third and if there is one, the fifth Wednesday in each month. The first and fifth Wednesdays of the month are informal practice nights, the third Wednesday is always our concert night.

The doors open at 7.30 PM. From 8pm onwards we listen to a variety of amateur and professional players on our stage. If you are a player, then bring your accordion along and give us a tune.

All levels of player welcome as well as listeners who just enjoy meeting a nice crowd and hearing some good music. Please note that on the evenings where we have a guest artist that does not mean that you leave your accordion at home. Even on guest artist nights, a part of the evening is dedicated to enthusiastic amateurs giving us their best. No reasonable offer to play will be turned down.

This may surprise you but about 50% of our members have never touched an accordion and have no idea how to play one, they simply come along for a good night of music and singalong tunes. Every meeting is a family affair, we have members from 8 to 80, everyone is made welcome. A good description of the club might be "a social club based around accordion music, concerts and events".

The venue has it's own stage, we have excellent sound equipment, there is coffee and tea on sale for just 20p a cup during the breaks and you can visit the bar for alcoholic and soft drinks if required. New visitors are made most welcome. Our aim is to have a social club based around music, why not come down and enjoy one of our concerts and meet some great people at the same time?

Below is a map of where to find us.

Come Inside And Meet Us View a very wide photograph showing the inside of our meeting place, this is the nearest I can get to making you feel as though you have been here, the picture is 7622 pixels wide by 450 pixels tall so you will have to wait a few seconds for it to appear. Once it has appeared you can use your browser scroll bars to move your eyes up and down and left and right to have a look around our club.

The photograph below is 400KB in size.

Look Around Leyland Accordion Club

Why not listen to our radio station while you browse the web

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If you can't visit the club then you can vicariously enjoy some of our past nights by clicking the date/s below to find out what we got up to.
14th November 1997	10th December 1997	14th January 1998	11th February 1998	11th March 1998
1st April 1998	8th April 1998	13th May 1998	10th June 1998	8th July 1998
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15th October 2008	19th November 2008	17th December 2008	21st January 2009	18th February 2009
18th March 2009	15th April 2009	20th May 2009

The above video is very short 2 and a half minute section of our guest artist concert with Stefan Andrusyschyn on 18th March 2009.

Here is a very large (180 degree view) photograph of one of our picnic held on the 4th of July. This is a 320k image taken at the end of the day when many people had gone home. This is the players view from the stage. (Use the scroll bars to look around the field) Notice the overnighters caravans on the left.
click here to view

Here is a wrap around photograph of our club to give you an idea of being at one of our concert nights, the photograph is 450KB in size so you might have to wait a few seconds on a dial up modem connection. Use the scroll bars in your browser window to move your eyes around the club. There is some overlap at either end of this 360 degree picture to ensure that you get the complete picture.

The above video is five minute section of our guest artist concert with David Vernon on 21st January 2009.

One of our club nights was recorded and 50 minutes of it is on this website for you to enjoy, this is only a 50 minute snapshot of our three hours of music we enjoy every month. Our guest artist Steve Roxton went on to play for another hour and a quarter but we had to limit how much we put on the site.

You will need a Realaudio Player on your computer to hear this concert, if you do not already have one then you have no excuse, you can download it free from the Realaudio website at www.real.com it is well worth it, there are many Realaudio sites on the Internet for you to enjoy.

To put you in the picture, Steve Roxton entertained a crowd of around 90 people with his Excelsior Midivox accordion connected to a Roland RA90 expander. If you have a look at the photograph below you will be able look around our room to get a feel for the place. You can even do this whilst listening to the concert.

I hope you enjoy this recording, this is the first time an accordion club has broadcast it's concert over the Internet and I hope that I have set a trend. I will be recording more nights for broadcast over the Internet if the demand is there, let me know what you think by sending me an email.

Listen to part of one of our concerts by clicking here

Look Around Leyland Accordion Club While You Listen To The Concert

Accordion Sales and Repairs

If you are looking at this site for accordion sales or repairs then please contact Rob at Birmingham Accordion Centre. Rob does repairs for Leyland Accordion Club members and looks after anyone else we send there. He provides some fantastic deals on new and used accordions from his custom built centre in Birmingham.

This has recently had an £8000 refurbishment allowing Rob to provide practice rooms, accordion sales, concertina and melodion sales, training, lessons, midi fitting, microphone installation, showroom, pianos, accessories, amplifiers, straps metronomes etc.

The above is in addition to the excellent repair and retuning facilities Rob has, his workshop is fully equipped for any type of repair or restoration, if he doesn't have a part or a key for your accordion then he can make one for you. Rob has also built accordions and melodions from scratch in the past, starting with a block of wood, ending up with an accordion !!!

I think you will find his prices very competitive on both sales and repairs with some excellent accordions for sale at little more than trade price, give him a call on 0121 753 3709 to ask for a quote.

Visit his website www.accordioncentre.co.uk

Tell him that Leyland Accordion Club sent you.

Leyland Accordion Club on BBC TV

We were again visited by the BBC to televise a feature on the Leyland Accordion Club. The feedback we got from it was very good, we have met new members who have since visited us as a direct result of the broadcast and joined the club.

I have put a version of the program on here in a format that can be viewed by anyone with a 28,800 modem without any difficulty. The picture and sound quality are vastly reduced from the original to allow as many people as possible to view the broadcast.

To watch the broadcast click Here

Click Here to view a map showing how to find us

Realaudio recordings of our players

The following sound files are from Leyland Accordion Club Players who have sat next to my computer while I record their playing, I intend sprinkling them around the site playing in various corners where they will not annoy each other!

Rebecca Postlewhite playing 12th Street Rag. Click Here

Steve Roxton playing Whistling Rufus Click Here

Walter Perrie playing Figaros Aria. Click Here

Rebecca Postlewhite playing Fisarmonica Impazita. Click Here

Steve Roxton playing Luci E Ombre. Click Here

Walter Perrie playing La Valse Des As. Click Here

Rebecca Postlewhite playing Granada. Click Here

Walter Perrie playing Scottish Jigs. Click Here

Rebecca Postlewhite playing Triste Sourire Click Here

Steve Roxton playing Under Paris Skies. Click Here

David Batty and Tom Bennett playing Plasir D'Amour Click Here

Nina Suscenco Playing Carousel Click Here

I can't reach G7 dad!, I think my daughter Rachel needs a smaller accordion. The one in the picture is my Scandalli 120 Bass, 4 voice , 8/4 couplers. It is double octave tuned and I believe it was made about 1955. The bass section is removable, press two clips and the whole bass section including buttons comes out in your hand, ideal for cleaning or repairing. I will use this to my advantage when I fit MIDI to it. I would be interested to hear if anyone owns the same model of accordion as myself. I have never seen another the same as this.

As featured on BBC Webwise TV programme

This is the concert featured on BBC TV's Webwise program, it was recorded just a few hours after Kate and the rest of the Webwise team left. To fill you in, we were visited by Kate Humble and the rest of the BBC Webwise crew so they could film us for their program. They could not get to our concert that night so instead they filmed myself(David Batty) and Tom Bennett for the program, we were interviewed and filmed playing the accordions. I did not know it at the time, but one of the crew had rung the head office up on their mobile phone while myself and tom were playing, and they told the staff back at the BBC to 'listen to this' while we played and they held a mobile phone up behind us. They were very interested in hearing their requests played and we were asked to play the Captain Pugwash theme more than once! It was interesting seeing how a TV program was filmed and how much work is needed to make the finished product. When the filming was over the producer wanted £5 from Kate the presenter because he had bet her that the whole thing would be done in one take which it was, this was the playing at the start between myself and Tom the interview and myself playing afterwards. We found the BBC crew very friendly and we enjoyed the experience.

This is the first 33 minutes of that nights concert in Realaudio format.

Right here it is, our concert featuring Walter Perrie and Tom Cowing with Hugh Gebbie on the drums.

Click here to listen to the concert

Above here you can see our new Leyland Accordion Club virtual world, this is a place where you can log in and see if there is anyone else in there, if so then you can chat to them.... Please sign in and have a go...

You can move round with your arrow keys, or just click your mouse to move. Just start typing to chat to other accordionists.

ps. its really easy to use.