Former Durand band director inducted into World Concertina Congress HOF

 

Arnold (Arnie) Checkalski, of Rice Lake, former band director in Durand, will have the great honor of being inducted into The World Concertina Hall of Fame on Friday, August 29, at the annual concertina Hall of Fame ceremony held in Kewaskum, Wisconsin.

The World Concertina Congress (WCC) has attempted to elevate the image of the chemnitzer concertina, and to honor those who have labored unselfishly to produce, preserve, and promote the instrument and the music it makes. The WCC was created in 1975 by a handful of chemnitzer concertina musicians and has grown over the years to include thousands of musicians and enthusiasts from around the world.

The organization’s Hall of Fame is not a place, but a collective idea; a means by which the instrument’s musicians honor their peers. The Hall of Fame recognizes international, national, and regional chemnitzer concertina musicians, many who are models of the common man. The majority of the Hall of Fame members are local musicians who have kept the instrument alive at its grassroots level. Like few other halls of fame, the WCC honors not only the aficionados, but down-to-earth players whose contribuitions are just as important to the instrument’s preservation.

Besides playing the concertina, perhaps Arnie’s biggest contribution has been the donation of well over 100 of his own original concertina music arrangements to www.concertinamusic.com, a website dedicated to the preservation of the chemnitzer concertina.

Years ago, Arnie had played saxophone and clarinet with Casey Blasczyk, Dutch Boys, Billy Jasicki and the Country Cousins, Ernie Reck and the Country Playboys, and The Polka Pals, as well as his own trio, The Profs. Arnie has recorded two concertina CDs; “Grandpa Having Fun” and “Concertina Polka Party.”

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