Gene Van Accordion Accordion Orchestra
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The Gene Van Accordion Orchestra is Home For The Holidays!
"Because It's Christmas"

Christmas Concert - December 6th
2:00 and 7:00 performances with a special matinee
featuring the Roland digital accordion among other artists.

Battelle Community Center Auditorium
904 N. Main St.
Mishawaka  IN 
$7.00 Adults  / $5.00 Seniors and Children under 18

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National Accordion Association is proud to present
The Gene Van Accordion Orchestra


"One Voice"
Gene Van's Golden Anniversary Reunion
featuring
The Gene Van Accordion Orchestra
and Entertainment Showcase

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Accordion Concert CD's & DVD Available: CD and DVD's of the "One Voice Concert" now available for purchase.  Easy to order, accordionists worldwide will enjoy the variety and musicality of this concert.  Sample sound tracks, order your copy today...


 


A Bit Of Our Accordion History:
Gene Van Accordion Conservatory Of Music
South Bend (Mishawaka) Indiana



50's - International Friendship Gardens in Michigan City, IN;

60's - Soldier's Field in Chicago, State Accordion Championships in Indianapolis, our first National Championship in New York City in 1968, World Cup Invitational performance at Hunter College, New York City, and guest performance at Marquette University, WI in 1969;

70's - Chicago, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Pittsburgh, '74 U.S. Ensemble Champions, the greatest US Champion Showband '78 in New York City, and the "Clean House Gang" champions in Miami Beach, FL in 1979. Multiple winner of the Indiana Accordionist's Association Championship Accordion Symphony.

80's-Nashville, World Cup performance in Kansas City 1981, virtuoso ensemble U.S. Championship in Orlando, FL 1982, our invitational performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1983, Harrisburg, the "Cabaret Party" in Boston 1984, featured performer for the Carnival of the Arts at Century Center in 1985, and our 30th year "Reunion of Champions" in South Bend, 1988;

90's - formation of "Those Van-Tastic Accordions" in 1995, our 40th year "Everything's Coming Up Accordions" concert in South Bend in 1998...

'05 - 2005 ATG U.S. Adult Accordion Ensemble Champions
'08 - "One Voice" 50th Anniversary & Reunion Concert South Bend IN.
'09 - An impressive return to the accordion world by the Gene Van Accordion Orchestra, Dallas TX at the National Accordion Association.


 

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Did you know about Gene Van's Texas Connection?


The 2005 Accordion Teachers Guild (ATG)
United States Champion Adult Ensemble Champions


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