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Preston Community Concerts

Telephone Number :  07814 261983

Contact name :  Elizabeth Harrison

Venue address : Midge Hall Methodist Church, Longmeanygate, Midge Hall, Leyland, PR26 6TD

About Preston Community Concerts

Preston Community Concerts is a brand new community group run by Elizabeth Harrison. Each concert is dedicated to raising funds for various local charities.

John Romero Concert Review

On the 1st of August there was a performance at 'Preston Community Concerts' featuring John Romero on Accordion. You normally hear about John as being the organiser of Eastbourne and Folkestone Festival music festivals. As well this though, John is an accomplished accordion player. It is rare for John to play so far north when played at Leyland.

The night, which was well attended featured two 60 minute spots with John playing his Midi accordion. John played mainly electronic sounds which went down well with the crowd some of which are used to visiting an organ club. The night featured the fastest raffle in the world, the tickets and colours were read out at the rate of about one every 3 seconds. There were about 20 prizes in total and the whole raffle had lasted less than a minute! The admission was £5 and the night ended at around 11pm.

The selection of music ranged from The Doctor Who theme through to Under Paris Skies and covered a whole host of genres. Most of the sounds came from the keyboard connected to Johns accordion and he gave the audience a good demonstration of how he was playing the keyboard via his accordion. I was seated in the organ loft as you can see from the photo below.

Taken from the Leyland Accordion Club Newsletter written by David Batty

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