The Fredösphere

A few days ago I mentioned my first fumbling attempts to become an accordionist.  It turns out, June is International Accordion Awareness Month, as NPR has noted.  (They also note the month's neat dovetailing with National Headache Awareness Week.)  Warning:  the background music is pure Cheese Whiz®.

The Standing Room reports on the accordion whoop-dee-doo held in San Francisco, the city in which the "piano-accordion" was invented, or maybe perfected or best promoted or something.  You can get your classical accordion links from accordionlinks.com (where else?) and your degree in accordion performance from the Royal Academy of Music.  Tchaikovsky may have been the first big-name composer to use the accordion, however sparingly.