Welcome to Bjuvs accordion orchestra

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    Welcome!!!

    Here you will find out something about us that perhaps will increase your interests of both us and accordion music in general. We are in present day fourteen musicians of various ages that plays for fun. We have our place in Bjuv, a small community in south of Sweden. Eleven of us play the accordion and three of us guitar, bass and drums. Our material is mixed. We plays everything between church music to popular music. Sorry to say, accordion music is today nothing that youth listen to or play. This days it's only pop and rock'n roll music that matters but we do hope that it will come back again in a near future. It is a very beautiful instrument that has it’s place in most categories. I my self plays both guitar and drums but did grow up with the accordion in my home. Both my father and my grandfather did play it.Now it's the older generation that carry the tradition forward. But it would be nice to see the younger generation pick it up again. Now, look around and enjoy and let me know if you have any ideas or comments to make this page even better.

    Thank you, Christer Hall


    History

    This history begins back in 1983 when mr Inge-Thore Rörstrand and Mr Nils Lindquist starts an accordion orchestra, ‘Bjuvs Dragspelsklubb’ or in english, ‘Bjuvs accordion orchestra’. They are not longer with the orchestra but we do thank them for their efforts. Our facilities back then were in a club house for school youth. Later on we got to practice in ‘Bjuvs marching corps’ facilities, where we still have our place. We practise every tuesday evening between seven and nine thirty. You’ll see us under ‘members’ Musicians have come and gone through the years but never so much that we have had to close down the orchestra. We have always managed. Every year we have an accordion meeting in last of august. Other orchestras similar to ours meets up to play and lots of people comes to dance and have fun. Older people mostly of course. This music does’nt appeal to young generation. Well, there is a few perhaps but not as many as we would like it to be. We have performed in several institutions like sick homes, service homes, club houses, festivals, dance arenas and so on. Up to this date it is our chairman mrs Ingrid Karlsson and financial chef mrs Siv Seth that keeps the wheels running. Without them this orchestra would not exist. Not in this form anyway. You’ll meet them again under ‘contact us’.


    Present members.


    Here we are as orchestra today !!

    Top from the left;
    Karl-Erik Lundqvist - Accordion
    Ingrid Karlsson - Accordion
    Siv Seth - Accordion
    Arne Pettersson - Accordion
    Gunilla Berg - Accordion
    Börje Olsson - Accordion (song)
    Middle from the left;
    Ingrid Wramborg - Accordion
    Andy Törnquist - Accordion
    Ola Ekdal - Song (guitar)
    Christer Hall - Guitar (drums, webmaster)
    Bo Andersson - Bas (guitar, soundengineer.)
    Last row;
    Lennart Persson - Drums



    Your contacts


    If you need anything, a gig or any questions, this is the two members you want to talk to:


    Ingrid Karlsson/Ordförande    Tel;042-72364     ingridkarlsson@bjuvsdragspelsklubb.se

    Siv Seth/Kassör    Tel;042-72388     sivseth@bjuvsdragspelsklubb.se
    This two are the anchor of this orchestra thats makes the wheel go round and round!!

    My name is Christer Hall and I'm the webmaster of this page. I play now days the gitar in this orchestra where I earlier used to play drums. I thought that it would be a nice idea to put our name on the map. So internet was the first choise. Plenty of work but fun making it. If you have anything to comment or perhaps some idea to improve dont hessitate to let me know.
    My adress is: christerhall@bjuvsdragspelsklubb.se

    Do you want to know more about me then visit my own homepage where you also can find out about The Shadows, one of my great idols!!
    Here you can listen to a soundfile of my recordings, a lovely swedish tune called "En Månskenspromenad, or in English; "A Moonlight walk". Just click on the link below and it will take you there!
    En Månskens Promenad