About New Zealand Accordion Historical Recordings Series
The New Zealand Accordion Association Inc (NZAA) has a project in support of the Dargaville Museum ‘Accordion Gems …A Master Collection of Accordions through Time’ … This major accordion display was initiated by our NZAA Life Member Kevin Friedrich.
The NZAA project is to find all the old historic recordings of accordion performance. Many of these performances were recorded in high quality for National Broadcast Radio or on LP, EP or CD’s. The NZAA project is to remaster these historic recordings to modern digital files.
Gary Daverne has already remastered some of them for the NZAA, to be ready in time for the NZAA 40th Anniversary Celebrations 2011 and 50th Anniversary Celebrations in 2021. Gary Daverne has been of invaluable assistance in this remastering of these old recordings and we thank him for his greatly appreciated help.
The results are very good quality, so much so, that the decision has been made to re-release the recordings below on the MusicForAccordion.com website as well as to have them form part of the computerized Dargaville Museum accordion history display.
Albums remastered list:
Virtuoso Accordionists featuring Harley and Maurice Jones (1975)
Silvio De Pra historic recordings
Kevin Friedrich Reflections
Timelapse featuring Maurice Jones, John Statham and Paul Marshall (vocals) 1980 and 1986
Air New Zealand Accordion Orchestra 1992
Air New Zealand Accordion Orchestra 1986
Kevin Friedrich The Journey
Marie Masefield Archive Recording 1983
NZ North Shore Accordion orchestra 1984
NZ North Shore Accordion Orchestra 1979
Harley Plays Gary
NZ North Shore Accordion Orchestra 2009
Coupe Mondiale 2009 Finale Concert
