FROM THE PRESIDENT

Welcome to the American Accordionists' Association online. Visit us often for updates on activities for the upcoming year and beyond!

The May issue of the AAA Newsletter will be mailed to members on May 2nd together with various announcement flyers of upcoming events. Thanks to Kevin Friedrich for once again providing wonderful articles for the Newsletter. Send your materials to Kevin at goaccordion@yahoo.com by June 15th for the July issue.

Updated information regarding the 2012 AAA Festival, July 11-15, 2012 in Baltimore is available in PDF format online. Select the FESTIVAL button below for competition rules, event order blank, and competition entry forms. New this year is the Junior Festival Orchestra which will be conducted by Mary Tokarski. The workshop schedule is now available online as well. Entries have already started to arrive and we hope to have the competition schedule ready for the July Newsletter which will be mailed out the last week in June. Our Festival ad in the March/April issue of Making Music Magazine brought us many inquiries so we are anticipating a large attendance. If you have not made your hotel reservations as yet, I encourage you to do so as soon as possible. We already have to add extra rooms to our commitment so don't be left out – make your reservations NOW!

We thank you for your continued interest and support of the American Accordionists' Association and hope to see you at one of our events this year.

Sincerely,
Linda Soley Reed, President
American Accordionists' Association