Minar honored with Lifetime Award

Patrick Fisher, Staff Writer

Jerry Minar of New Prague, was presented with the Lifetime Accordion Award at the ninth annual NE Accordion Festival (NEAF) held in Northeast Minneapolis November 10-11.

The organization's purpose is to celebrate the accordion and other instruments in the free reed family, which includes the concertina, piano accordion, chromatic accordion, diatonic accordion, button box, harmonica, banadoneon and the harmonium.

Even though the concertina is my main instrument