MAM I N U T E S - AMERICAN ACCORDIONISTS' ASSOCIATION MEETING THE FOUNDERS - Left to right, front row: Pietro Frosini, Abe Goldman, Sidney DawsonCenter row: Anthony Galla-Rini, Charles Magnante, Pietro Deiro, Sr., Charles Nunzioīack row: Gene von Hallberg, Joseph Biviano.Not shown in photo: John Gart, Sam Roland, Byron StreepĪMERICAN ACCORDIONISTS ASSOCIATIONFOUNDED 1938 The organization is tax exempt andencourages donations from accordion aficionados.ĪAA Celebrates its 70th Anniversar圜ompiled by Faithe Deffner, Joan Grauman and Linda Soley Reed
These include adjudication at regional,national and international competitions, concertperformances, committee functions, workshops,etc., as well as efforts to facilitate and coordinatethe various segments of the accordion world.Ĭonforming to the organizations bylaws, officersand governors receive no compensation for thework they do.
The officers and board members together constitutethe governing board, which carries out the AAA'smyriad of accordion-related projects, donatingpersonal services according to the association'sneeds. While modest membership dues provide some ofthe operating income for the association, majorfunding is derived from competitions, concerts,scholarship dinners, artist testimonials, seminars,journals, general membership activities and tax-free donations. It holds aprestigious position within the renownedConfederation Internationales des Accordeonistes(CIA), with affiliations to UNESCO and theInternational Music Council (IMC). Today, seven decades after it was founded in 1938,the organization continues to enjoy an enviableposition as a foremost accordion organization ofboth national and international scope. To accomplish these andother such lofty goals, AAA has consistently attractedthe most outstanding educators, concert artists,manufacturers, music publishers, professionals,students and accordion enthusiasts to work together. Excludes: Alaska/Hawaii, US Protectorates, APO/FPO, PO Box, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan Republic, Georgia, Russian Federation, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, Micronesia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Wallis and Futuna, Western Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Kiribati, New Caledonia, Palau, American Samoa, Niue, French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Guam, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Ghana, Djibouti, Cape Verde Islands, Mali, Botswana, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Saint Helena, Seychelles, Gambia, Liberia, Rwanda, Libya, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon Republic, Lesotho, Mayotte, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Chad, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Senegal, Togo, Morocco, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Western Sahara, Malawi, Comoros, Angola, Algeria, Benin, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Somalia, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Niger, Tanzania, Namibia, Burkina Faso, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Puerto Rico, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Netherlands Antilles, Belize, Aruba, Anguilla, Dominica, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, British Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Haiti, Virgin Islands (U.S.Our Mission and GoalsFrom its inception, the American AccordionistsAssociations (AAA) mission has been to elevateaccordion standards of education, musicianship,performance, and repertoire, while providing thepublic and media with information to stimulate anincreasing awareness of, and appreciation for, thisremarkable instrument.