Bay Area Concertina Players That's the Bay Area in San Francisco.
Email Daniel Hersh at Describe themselves as: "Not a formal
organization, but more of a mailing
list of all the local players we can
find." Have occasional informal
gatherings.
Center for the Study of CSFRI is "a resource for scholarly
Free Reed Instruments research on all aspects...of all
Graduate Center/CUNY free-reed instruments". The Director
365 Fifth Avenue is Allan Atlas, author of The
New York NY 10016-4309 Wheatstone Concertina in Victorian
Phone (212) 817-8590 England.
Chiltern Concertina Group Meets once a month at Maulden
Contact Jon McNamara on Church Hall in Bedfordshire on
01279 656664 Sundays. Has 20 or more attendees.
Email 
Concertinas Anonymous Meets once a month at 8pm on Mondays.
The Lewes Arms Also an irregular series of workshops,
Mount Street such as the all day one on 14th October
Lewes 2000 with Andy Turner on playing Anglo
England for dance. Has WWW page at:-
Phone 01273 474389 http://members.aol.com/lewesarmsfolk/concanon.html
Email 
Concertina Contact Germany Organises an annual meeting for
Mario Kliemann concertina players (English and
Am Bach 17 anglo) on the second weekend in
D-33602 Bielefeld May in Bielefeld. Has WWW page at:-
Phone +49521 170536 http://www.concertina.de/
Concertinas at Witney Witney is in Oxfordshire UK.
J Cox C@W is an intensive weekend
26 Hill Grove course for concertina players
Bristol held annually with tutors of
BS9 4RJ the calibre of John Kirkpatrick
England and Simon Thoumire. Next course
Phone 0117 9629931 29 - 30 September 2001.
Has WWW page at:-
http://typhoon.rdg.ac.uk/~chapman/witney.html
Horniman Museum Houses the Wayne Collection and100 London Road has a splendid display devoted
Forest Hill to the development and history
London of the concertina. Also see sec.
SE23 3PQ 12 for details of their online
England resources.
Phone 020 8699 1872 Has WWW page at:-
http://www.horniman.ac.uk International Concertina Has been around since 1953. Association Has an extensive library of 50a Caledon Road music. Excellent newsletter East Ham and Papers of the ICA, an London E6 2HB annual scholarly journal. England Increasingly a truly international Phone 0208 471 7739 outlook with committee members from USA and Holland as well as the UK. Has WWW page at:- http://www.concertina.org Jubilee Concertinas Describing themselves as "a friendly Eaves Green Community Centre bunch of enthusiastic musicians" they Lower Burgh Way meet twice a month. The first Saturday Eaves Green is a 'slow and steady' session for all Chorley instruments and the second Saturday is PR7 3QE a concertina workshop. Has WWW site at:- Phone 01257 263678 http://www.jubileeconcertinas.org Konzertinanetz South German concertina club that Jochen Riemer meets twice a year in spring and Herrengasse 5 autumn, all systems are welcome. 83512 Wasserburg am Inn Their web site has a (German) Germany mailing list, WWW page at:- Phone 08071 903314 www.konzertinanetz.de.vu E-mail
West Midlands & Welsh Marches First Saturday in the month. 2 to 5pm.
Concertina Group Upstairs in the The Newhampton,
Richard Burton Riches Street, Wolverhampton. All welcome.
Phone 0121 706 0804 Any system/any standard.
E-mail 
Noel Hill Irish Concertina An anuual event which this year
School (1999) has a new home. An intensive
Putnam Valley NY 1 week course in playing Irish music
USA on the anglo, led by Noel Hill and
E-mail 
intended for all skill levels from
beginner to expert. Runs from
August 8 to 13 1999 and costs $425
for tuition and meals. WWW page at:-
http://web.utk.edu/~tkoosman/nhics.html
North East Concertina Players Restarted having found a new home:
Alan Alden monthly on the 2nd Sunday 2 - 5 p.m.
2 Church Street Mews at Ceddesfield Community Centre (opp.
Guisborough parish church), Sedgefield.
TS14 6HG
England
Northeast Squeeze-In A major annual weekend event for all
Bucksteep Manor free-reed players in the States, but
Washington MASS always has a large contingent of
USA concertina players. Reviews I have
For info/tickets contact read make it sound a great weekend.
The Button Box 1997 dates 19 - 21 September.
9 East Pleasant Street Has WWW page at:-
Amherst MA 01002 http://www.buttonbox.com/s-i.html
USA
Phone (413) 549-0171
North Western Concertina Monthly meetings (second Saturday
Players afternoon) at The Ship & Mitre,
Bob Dawson Dale Street, Liverpool
Phone 0151 726 0110
Brian Leach
E-mail 
South German Concertina Weekends Held every 6 months. Martin Doering
Wasserburg writes "All kinds of instruments are
Bavaria, Germany welcome. It is a smaller meeting -
Jochen Riemer last time around 10 people. We like to
Phone 08039 908463 play and sing together and exchange
experiences of any kind".
E-mail 
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Swedish Concertina Society Or in Swedish Svenska Concertina
(Secretary Goran Rahm) Sallskapet. Established in 1983 they
Bruksvagen 11 b currently have about 20 members.
S-752 41 Uppsala
Sweden
Phone 46(18)557103 and (05)
E-mail 
West Country Concertinas A flourishing group. They have a
John Derricott series of workshops during Sidmouth
49 Medbourne Close Festival week which is inspirational:
Blandford hundreds of concertina players! The
Dorset Annual Concertina Weekend is in March
DT1 17UA each year at Kilve Court, Somerset,
England with tutors such as John Kirkpatrick
Phone 01258 450927 and Alistair Anderson. WWW page
at:- http://www.wccp.co.uk/
Yorkshire Concertina Players
J Edwards
63 Wrenbeck Drive
Oxley
West Yorkshire LS21 2BD
England