Oklahoma Squeezins

“Our squeezin'...is pleasin'”

The Oklahoma Accordion Club Newsletter

Join us to listen and play at the

Mother's Day meetup

Join us Sunday, May 10 at 3:30 PM for the best Mother's Day meetup the Oklahoma Accordion Club ever had. Snacks welcome—bring your accordion or come as you are. Guests and trade-ins welcome.

Meetup Info for Sunday, May 10, 2026 - 3:30 PM

If you can't attend the 3:30 PM meetup in person, you can experience some of it via Zoom - using the same codes (see red type below) you may have used in previous years. I'm told Zoom's musical sound quality has recently improved! So feel free to tune us in!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5236709799Zoom

May 2026Page 1

Prez sez

Maggie Abel & Ron Shearon

VP Ron and I invite you to this Sunday's Mother's Day Accordion Meeting on May 10 at 3:30 PM! It'll be hard to top last month's pizza meeting but we're gonna try! Recent guests have been dropping in and we hope you'll be there to help greet them! There are more people playing or thinking about playing accordion than you realize. Also if you have an accordion to sell or trade, bring it let a few peeps demonstrate it, or maybe trade it up for something more your speed or your desired heft! Heck, bring all your accordions—and all your friends! Oh yeah, and a snack is okay too! That's all, folks! ~ Mag & Ron

Board of Directors

Vice-President
Ron Shearon
Acting Secretary
Lois Roth
Proofer/Snacks/Birthdays
Karen West
Webmaster/Photographer
Diana Richard
Secretary
Lois Roth
President
Maggie Abel

Open positions: PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, TREASURER, LIVESTREAM TECH, HISTORIAN, LIBRARIAN, NEWSLETTER EDITOR

Past presidents: Barbara Duer †, Dick Albreski

Website: okaccordion.club

Membership: $20 individual, +$10 family add-on. Visitors welcome.

Lifetime members

Maggie Abel
Jim Butricks †
June Butricks †
William "Rusty" Dolton
Frank Gesinski †
Janet Haskin
Roland Lohmann
Frankie Martinez
Bob Mansfield
Tom Phillips
Phil Scibelli
Ophelia Woody

May 2026Page 2

Mark those calendars! — Dick Albreski

Accordion music

Check out the following sites for new and free accordion music:

Don Quattrocchi — https://donquattrocchi.com/
8notes — accordion — https://www.8notes.com/accordion/

Try em! You'll like em!

THIS MEANT a LOT! Recently I played for a retirement center. A lady came up to me after I completed my performance and said, "I am 81 years old, and I never liked the accordion until today!" What a tremendous compliment!

Great Ideas Symposium 5 for Digital accordions will be held on June 21-24, 2026, at the Grand Resort in Warren, OH. This will be a live symposium event on the Korg Supreme, Roland 4X and 8X, plus the Bugari Evo accordions. Paid members cost will be $650, non-members $695 and spouse or plus 1 $395. There'll be workshops, concerts, and jams. To register to attend both the event and lodgings, go to the website gr8ideas.org.

https://gr8ideas.org

The ATG (Accordion Teachers Guild) will hold its 84th annual Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park Hotel from July 8th to the 12th, 2026. This event will host many terrific accordionists plus concerts, competitions, jamming, and all-around accordion fun. Joey Miskulin, Radu Ratol, and Stas Venglevski are the headliners with JoAnn Sommers conducting the ATG orchestra. Joey Miskulin is also known as the CowPolka King. He started playing at the age of 13 with the Frankie Yankovic polka band. The ATG will also introduce ClubATG — an open mic back at the hotel with a cash bar. For more information go to atgaccordions.com.

https://atgaccordions.com

The American Accordion Association (AAA) holds its annual festival August 13th to the 16th, 2026, at the Marriott Philadelphia West in Conshohocken, PA. This event includes various educational and entertaining events plus foster camaraderie among accordion enthusiasts. Guests and artists include Cody McSherry, Don Gerundo, Emmanuel Trifilio Trio, Frank Busso Jr. Trio, Frank Busso Sr., Guenadly Lazarov, Joe Natoli, Nathan Chaperton, Peter Peluso, Peter Stan, Ray Oreggia, and the Accordion Pops Orchestra under direction of Al Terzo. For updates and registration, visit www.ameraccord.com.

https://www.ameraccord.com

HEADS UP!!! The next National Accordion Association Convention will be held from March 17th to the 21st, 2027 — not in Forney, Texas, the site of the last event. This next event will feature accordion bands and will be for all accordion enthusiasts, acoustic and digital, beginners and professionals. More to follow including the place in the next newsletter. Mark your calendars for this one.

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Meeting minutes

Annual Pizza Party · Sunday, April 12, 2026

Twenty members and two guests attended.

The Oklahoma Accordion Club held a meeting on Sunday, April 12, 2026. It was our annual Pizza Party. Before the music program started we enjoyed delicious pizza from Hide Away. President Maggie Abel called the meeting to order at 3:30 PM. We recited the Pledge of Allegiance and sang "America The Beautiful." Tom Phillips said a prayer before we ate. Meeting was adjourned, and then Lois played a few more songs while the clean-up workers did their job. We will meet again on Sunday, May 10. The theme is Mother's Day or whatever anyone wants to play for us.

Performers: Anne Lopez, Lois Roth, Ron Shearon, Shayla Chavis-Smith, Wayne Turgeon, Robbie Rattan, John Warren

— Lois Roth, OAC Secretary

Birthdays