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Frank Marocco: Awards 
Winner N.A.R.A.S. most valuable Player Award-1985 and
1986.
Honored and received the "Golden Reed" Award-1994
in Ancona, Italy.
Inducted into the Accordion Hall of Fame Museum in Vicenza,
Italy May, 2000.
 Received the presitgous "Lifetime Achievement Award" by The American Accordionists' Association - June 4, 2006
Frank Marocco's musical career began in Chicago, Illinois where
at age 17 he took first place in a Music Festival Contest. He performed
his winning solo with Mark Weber and the Chicago  Pops Orchestra playing
before several thousand people in Soldiers Field.
Frank spent the next few years traveling all over the U.S.A.. with his
Quartet playing the top hotels and clubs including Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe
and Palm Springs, finally settling in Los Angeles.
He later worked with the Les Brown Band and Bob Hope, working on Mr. Hope's
television shows and traveling with him around the world entertaining
troops.
In recent years, Frank has done a great deal of studio session  work on
the West coast and has become one of the most recorded accordionists in
the world. Frank has played on hundreds of movie soundtracks, TV series
and specials, records and commercials. He was nominated eight years in
a row as most valuable player by the National Academy of Arts and Sciences
(N.A.R.A.S.).
"Soave" from Appassionato CD
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