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Harrington ARTS Center - 1401 Belknap Street, Superior, WI  54880
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The Hanni Strahl Concert Hall... "Dedicated to Remembering the Old World in the New" announces...

GRAND ReOPENING
A WORLD OF ACCORDIONS MUSEUM
April 24-25, 2004

Click here for details (WORD document)    Click here for Response Card (WORD document)

 

And we will be at Polkafest June 25th through 27th, 2004....


Celebrating Historic Legacies - Ironworld Discovery Center  (click for details - WORD document)

Recent Concerts

A Community Christmas Celebration was held December 7th, 2003, at 2pm.  We enjoyed wonderful music of the season from Carolyn Carver and her violin students, and Helmi Harrington and her accordion students.  We also had the opportunity to participate in Toys for Tots through the Bong Heritage Center.

Dee Langley and Greg Dagoumas played their accordions with great skill and sparkling enthusiasm  on Nov 2nd, 2003. Their repertoire included everything from waltzes, schottisches and polkas to classical music such as Mozart and Bach, with a splash of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen in between!

The Original Nauheimer Dorfmusikanten played German Octoberfest here in Superior on Wednesday, September 24th, 2003!  The genuine German 12 piece band on its first American tour delighted us with their music, vocals, authentic costumes, and authentic German repertory and singing!

Stas Venglevski returned to our stage with his friend John Simkus in a dazzling “explosion” of virtuoso duets Sunday, May 4th at 2:00 PM.  Stas is a former student of Friedrich Lips (Moscow).  He performed here in 2002 with Lips and is one of the USA's foremost concert artists.  John Simkus is a Chicago native who specializes in jazz and contemporary improvisatory music. Stas and John concluded a national tour that brought rave reviews.

Noted accordionist DICK REES performed Old Style & Traditional Music here on 3-22-03.

Noted classical accordionist Joanna Arnold-Darrow of Westmont, New Jersey and the Accordion Concertina Music Ensemble (Carolyn Carver, Lynda Griffith and Helmi Harrington) shared the concert stage at Harrington ARTS Center on Sunday afternoon, Nov 10th, 2002, at 2:00 p.m.

Friedrich Lips (Moscow) and Stas Venglevski (Milwaukee)… Workshop 10 AM and Concert 2 PM Sunday, September 22nd, 2002.  It was a tremendous performance!  Click here to see poster.

Ingrid Kvale (Norway)…August 4, 2002

The "K" Trio (Connecticut) Performed a wonderful Seminar & Concert here on July 17th, 2002 !

Last Special Exhibit:

Charles Magnante: America’s Great Accordionist (July through September, 2002)


*** Accordion history & performance workshop notice for CTAA (future ones may be similar) 


Contact info:

E-mail: harringtonarts@lycos.com  (email usually checked weekly)

Phone: (715) 395-ARTS (Superior, WI) or (218) 393-0245 or (952) 894-7043 (Minneapolis, MN)


Links:  A World Of Accordions Museum - Accordion-concertina Technicians' Repair School - Accordion Concertina Music  - American Accordionists' Association - WWW.ACCORDIONS.COM