President's Message

Happy New Year to all! Our first meeting for 2025 was a wonderful time together. The day started at 10:00 with Bobbie Ferrero and Delette Huffman leading a ForScore workshop on “cutting and pasting”. This enables forward movement with the foot pedal when playing. Those participating were: Amber Matz, Bev Spurgeon, Jeanette Bauman, John Mohney, Coreen Bergholm, Jeff Nelson, Susan Schwab, Fran Maddox and Todd Carlson. 

About 12:15 the music circle, led by Delette Huffman, formed and played three songs: Moon River, Give Me My Heart Back (both in parts) and Just Another Polka. Next month’s leader is Susan Schwab. The songs will be sent via email the first part of February. 

The business meeting began with remembrances of Karl Kment. Karl wasn’t a member of Rose City Accordion Club officially, but we knew him through workshops and zoom meetings. The flyer created by his club, Central Oregon Accordion Club, was distributed for members to see. Karl lived in Redmond, OR and was 97. RIP Karl. Thank you for all you taught us. 

The February 15th meeting will begin at 10:00 for those who have signed up for the Musescore workshop which will be conducted by Todd Carlson. Todd will be communicating directly with those in the workshop as to information needed prior to attending the workshop.

The March 15th meeting will feature Sergei and Maria Teleshev. They will play from 1:00 to 2:00. There will be a short ForScore workshop from 10:30-12:00. No music circle is scheduled for that day.

In addition to regular members attending the meeting, there were several visitors. They introduced themselves and were invited to join the club. 

The meeting concluded with solo playing, a quartet and a singer performing.  There were several different genres of music too.  The beautiful music was a delight to listen to. 

Thanks again for all those who participated Saturday. Special thanks go to Bobbie and Delette for conducting the workshop and Bev Spurgeon who picks up the key to the community room. What a team!