Have You Hugged Your Accordion Today?
Celebrating National Accordion Awareness Month
Cheri Thurston
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Have you hugged your accordion today? June is National Accordion Awareness Month. Don’t let the month pass without doing something to celebrate the accordion. Here are just a few ideas:
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Photo by Rene Bernal on Unsplash
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Make reservations to attend one of the many accordion events taking place around the country each year.
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Take your accordion in for repair, if it’s been needing some attention.
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Play for a child.
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Offer to give someone accordion lessons.
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Sign up for some “refresher” accordion lessons yourself.
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If your accordion has been sitting in the closet for a while, take it out and play it.
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Buy yourself a new accordion.
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Try out a midi accordion.
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Learn a new number and memorize it.
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Make your own “Happy Accordion Month!” greeting card, and send it to someone who needs to be enlightened.
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Buy a CD or an mp3 file that features the accordion.
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Play the accordion every day for the entire month of June.