Archive
This will be the archive page of our past projects, events and also any other articles, items of interest etc we might receive.
Always worth a visit!
Have you any photo's, articles or information relating to squeezebox playing in Devon and the West Country?
We would be very interested in hearing from you.
Send us an email - see the contacts page.
New Autumn Workshops Dates! updated
Big Squeeze Day update
At Last Piano Accordions!
Devon's 1st Big Squeeze Day
The Bellows Mart
New Workshops in Mid Devon & South Hams! update
We got the grant!!!
Current Workshops 2006 - 2007
Devon Squeezebox Foundation Launch!!!
New Autumn Workshop Dates updated
The Mid Devon and East Devon Melodeon workshops have joined forces. They will now take place on the 2nd Wednesday of the month at Rockbeare Village Hall. Click here for further info.
Yes indeed, we have finally emerged from Big Squeeze Day and here are the new dates for this winter's Melodeon and Piano Accordion Workshops.
Click here to find out more melodeons!
Click here to find out
more piano accordions!
Big Squeeze Day update
Well everything is
gearing up good and proper for Big Squeeze Day.
Workshop Tickets
The bookings for the
Workshops are flying in thick and fast now, so if you've not booked you place on the
course of your choice, best get weaving, as places are limited and some of the courses are
filling up!
Click here to see what courses there are and the current
state of play.
update PIANO ACORDION COURSE NOW SOLD OUT 13/9/07
Evening Concert
Tickets still available for the evening concert, featuring all the tutors of the day, plus a bar with local beer, wine and cider. Click here for details - Click here to book you tickets
Special Big Squeeze Day Programme Offers
We have negotiated some great deals with the local traders of the Big Squeeze Day Punter who branishes the programme, whether there for the whole day or the evening concert goer. Click here for more details
Accomodation
If you are coming from out of the area, we have a list of B&B's around Crediton which we hope will be a help. Spend a long weekend in lovely Devon. Why wouldn't you? Click here for more details.
Barely has the sun started to shine and already we are looking at the autumn! Following the success of the Melodeon Project, funded by The National Lottery through Awards for All, we are looking to set up a similar series of courses for Piano Accordion players, ie both for beginners and for those with a little more experience, from the ages of 10 years old upwards.
As with the Melodeon Project, we aim for the Squeeze Keys Project workshops to be in the regions where there is most demand, rather than expecting everyone to travel to a central location. In order to guage the level of interest and to pick the optimum locations, we need to know where the interest lies. So if you are interested in attending the workshops and have access to a Piano Accordion, please send us an email through the contacts page, stating you name, location and whether you are an absolute beginner or have some experience ie can play the right and left hands at the same time.
This is an initial exercise is finding out how the land lies, so sending an email will not put you under any obligation.
Tell us all!
Devon's 1st Big Squeeze Day!
Date: 29th September
2007
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Community College, Crediton
We are hugely pleased
to announce we shall be running Devon's 1st Big Squeeze Day.
Guest tutors:
Roger Edwards - Anglo
Concertina
Paul Hutchinson - piano accordion
John Kirkpatrick - melodeon
Rob Say - English Concertina
Mick Bramich - Beginners Anglo Concertina
Someone Else - Beginners English Concertina
There will also be a tune or two at a
lunchtime session, "drop in and have a go" stalls for the melodeon and piano
accordion, some good stalls with local box repairers and a Grand Evening Concert. Good eh?
Click HERE for all the details and the booking form and get the date in the diary now!
We'd like to thank Devon Folk,
who are generously sponsoring Devon's 1st Big Squeeze Day
Awards for All
We are enormously pleased to announce that the Devon Squeezebox Foundation has been successful in it's application to Awards for All for a grant from The National Lottery. The grant is to help finance the workshops we have planned and even more excitingly, to fund a Melodeon hire scheme. This will increase the accessibility of the workshops beyond those who currently own, or have access to a melodeon.
May we take this
opportunity to thank Awards For All. This grant will really make a difference!
Click on the Awards for all Logo to find out more about their fantastic work.
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New Dates for Mid Devon and South Hams!
At last, we have the
venue and dates for the Mid
Devon Melodeon Workshops.
Starting in January, the venue is Poughill
Village Hall, EX17 4DQ. You'll find full details here
They will be in exactly the same format as those already running, i.e. there will be 1st
and 2nd Squeeze for the beginners and improvers respectively. If you might be interested
in attending, or know someone who might be, please drop us an email using the contacts
clicky thing, and title your email "Mid Devon Workshops" It makes my life sooo
much easier!
Also we are starting more Beginners workshops in January in the South Hams, at the Old School Community Centre, South Brent.
Click here for more details
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Current Workshops Information
A full programme of
progressive Melodeon workshops for both beginners and Improvers (or 1st and 2nd Squeeze!)
began in October at various locations around the County. Click here for more info!
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The Bellows Mart
Almost from the word "GO!" we have been receiving enquiries of where to buy or sell squeezeboxes. So we are launching The Bellows Mart, where squeezeboxes may be converted to attic space or vice versa.
Devon Squeezebox Foundation Launch!!!
Well we did it. The launch was very well attended and lots of people had a go on the boxes there. Luckily they were all in different keys, so it sounded interesting! Thanks to everyone who came along especially to Mark for the loan of three of his boxes and also to Iris Bishops who loaned us her McCann Duet concertina.
