Happy Accordion Awareness Month!

Just in case it isn’t already marked in bold on your calendar, June is National Accordion Awareness Month! Accordion Awareness Month is the brainchild of Bay Area accordionist Tom Torriglia (who also helped make the accordion the official instrument of San Francisco back in 1990). It’s the perfect excuse to pull that ol’ squeezebox out of your closet and make your neighbors, um, “aware” of its existence.

To kick off this important month, the 16th annual San Francisco Accordion Festival will be held this Sunday, June 4th, at the Cannery at Fisherman’s Wharf. The event is free, runs from noon to 6pm, and features some of our favorite accordion-flavored performers, including Those Darn Accordions, Big Lou’s Polka Casserole, Conjunto Romero, Bella Ciao, Culann’s Hounds, Kielbasia, and the San Francisco Accordion Orchestra. As mentioned previously, the festival features the San Francisco Main Squeeze Pageant, a contest to crown the most talented (and colorful) accordion player in town.

We’re planning to be there on Sunday, so if you see us (probably not wearing lederhosen), come up and give us a big squeeze!

2 Comments:

  1. Photos and article:
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2006/06/04/PKGCHJ4BI01.DTL&o=3
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/04/PKGCHJ4BI01.DTL

  2. Thanks Ian! I’m working on a big accordion festival wrapup to post here, but I keep getting sidetracked by my day job. Hopefully I’ll have it up later this afternoon.