Me, Joaquin Diaz ( Dominican Republic), Raynald Oullett (Quebec)and Antonio Rivas ( Colombia) at the Chartres Festival France 2001.
Alain Musichini , a superb Accordion player, taken at Chartres.
Me, Joaquin, Raynald Oulett and Christian Bouille. Raynald and Christianne run the Montmagny Accordeon festival in Quebec which can have a combined audience of 50,000 people. this photo was taken at the Michel Macias concert in Chartres 2001
Playing for the Mayor. This was at the cocktail party preceding the Chartres festival 2001 Also playing were Antonio. Jaoquin, Bo de Le, .
Frederic Baldo, one of my favourite French Accordion players. This photo was taken at the Coupe Mondiale in London 2001.
Faithe Deffner ( USA) who is President of Deffner Muisc Co and Titano Accordions . Taken at the Coupe Mondial
Ron Bennett ( Burgess hill) and Ray Bodell the Chairman of the National Accordion Association. Ron is responsible for organising my tours down south and is also responsible for a lot of these photographs.....Cheers Ron!!
Simone Zanchini from Italy taken at the London Accordion festival. Simone put on THE greatest performance I have ever seen in all my years in the Accordion world. He was simply on a different planet from any other accordion player.
My Band for the evening. Stevie Burns ( drums). Seamus O'Sullivan ( 2nd box) and Noel MCarthy both who were kind enough to join in on the night.
One of the all time greatest Accordionists. Gervasio Marcosignori and Danielle Ravaglia ( Italy) Bridlington 2001
London Accordion Festival 2001 with Scottish Accordionist Bobby Crowe and Jazz guitarist legend Martin Taylor ( he use to play with Stephan Grapelli amongst others)
Someone else I have a very high regard for, Charlie watkins of W.E.M. Ltd. Charlie used to be the sound man for the Rolling Stones amongst others. taken at the London Accordion festival 2001
Emanuelle Rastelli the amazing Italian Jazz Accordionist. this was taken at the Paisley fun festival 2001
Frank Marocco and I enjoying a drink ( purely medicinal) at the London Accordion Festival 2001. Frank is a true legend having worked in an enormous amount of Hollywood films ( The Godfather, Toy Story , Batman returns etc etc) He is recognised by many to be the greatest jazz Accordonist in the world.
Fintan Stanley and me after our Concert at the Bridlington Accordion festival 2001. Fintan is Irish but lives in the USA now.
Frederic Deschamps. A past winner of the Coupe Mondial and one of the greatest Accordion teachers on the planet.