Well, here we are – 2013. Christmas came and went, and now the stage is set for another wonderful year of accordion activities around the world.

Accordions Worldwide aims to publicize as many events, new recordings, items of interest, etc, as we can – and a mention in our Weekly News is free! Please inform us of your activities.

As we start the year, its timely to thank our volunteer team of translators who translate our news into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian. Thank you very much to Yulia Amerikova, Yvon Body, Annalisa Martelli, Alejandro Martinez Ares, HoldaPaoletti-Kampl and Guo Xingming for their greatly appreciated assistance in keeping the Weekly News a free service for the accordion world.

On behalf of all at Accordions Worldwide, I wish you all a Happy New Year.

Rob Howard, News Editor