Links

Links and webrings

• At Accordion-Search.com you can search for accordion-related web-sites -- or submit your own
• The 1st accordion webring
• A Classical Accordion webring

• The Accordion Evergreen Ring is for those that enjoy playing and listning to Evergreens, Tango and Latin Music.
• folknorth.org is a directory of Nordic Traditional and Contemporary Folk Music and Dance
• harmonikafreund.com, () edited by Elfriede Schahpar, is a web portal with links to accordion related pages and music videos.

• The Latin American Accordion Webring for musicians and aficionados of accordion driven rhythms found throughout North, Central and South America.
• Jeff Bigler provides an index to Morris and Sword Pages on the Web
• Rich Holmes, who plays melodeon and concertina. He set up a list of morris-related pages, that has morphed into a Morris teams directory wiki.

• Mainly Morris Dancing, John Maher's collection of Morris links
• Steve Allen of Seabright Morris and Sword has a collection of 90 Morris tunes in abc-format, and besides, links to more Morris-related info on the WWW.
• Música Latina, links to Latin American music groups, including tango and Tejano music ()

• De Nederlandse Akkordeon Webring, The Dutch accordion webring ()
• Paul Nosko maintains the Squeezebox section in the "open directory project", and also the Polka section.
• Mauro Ravera's Folksy links! folk bands and musicians online

• accordeon.startpagina.nl, a Dutch links page about the accordion, maintained by Hillebrand van der Veen ()
• argentijnse-tango.startpagina.nl with links to mostly Dutch (but also Argentine) tango schools, artists, organisations etc.
• Jack Woehr's Jax RCFB Free Reed Musical Instruments Page contains a large number of links and a page about the Hayden duet concertina (including an interview with Brian Hayden). He plays pop, ethnic and folk in a group "Jax and Sumi", which is stretchable from a duet to a six-piece band, in Colorado and the West.

Discussion groups and mailing lists

• The Squeezebox mailing list started life as a mirror for the rec.music.makers.squeezebox newsgroup (with the mirroring courtesy of DoN Nichols), but it is now a separate (and fairly quiet) mailing list. Still about accordions and concertinas, of course.
• There is an accordion (& concertina) newsgroup: rec.music.makers.squeezebox If you don't have a news reader (or feed), you can find rec.music.makers.squeezebox articles from Google groups (formerly Deja news). You can also post there.
• AccordionFreedomForum is a Yahoo group with daily discussions, polls, educational materials, MIDI files, audio files, sheet music, rate a recording, photos, classified ads, etc. in seven sites.

• Accordionplayers is a Yahoo group for people who play an accordion and would like to exchange music sheets and books.
• AkkoChat.de () is apparently a chat site for accordions
• buttonbox is a Yahoo group for the Steyrische button accordion, Heligonka, harmonika, ziach, etc.

• A Cajun Accordion Discussion Group
• Conjunto is Life, "The Conjunto Conservation Society" is a social network set up by Los Padrinos.
• diato () is a French discussion group about diatonic accordions

• A Spanish accordion discussion group
• the Accordion Club of Minnesota's mailing list
• Yahoo group pianoaccordionplayersoftheworld, set up by Frank Jenkins, for the promotion, preservation and sharing of music, information for accordion players all over the world.

• A Polish accordion forum ()
• Publi-Note () is a forum for accordion orchestra sheet music, with a catalogue of compositions, and the opportunity to discuss each one them, and in particular, to register that your orchestra is playing them. The catalogue (currently) contains compositions from publishers Musicverlag Rundel, De Haske and Musik-Großversand Jetelina.
• Puro Acordeón () is a fairly active forum about "the most pure Norteña and Tejana music".

• QueTrad is an French/English-speaking mailing list / Yahoo group about Quebecois traditional and trad-based music.
• tabledit_en_harmonica () is a mailing list devoted to tablature and music notation program TablEdit, as used for diatonic accordions.
• A Tex-Mex Conjunto/Norteño Accordion Forum (set up by Gilbert Reyes), or rather a collection of them -- about accordions, repairs, tablature, events, musicians wanted, etc.

• The Texas Accordion Net is a social network that allows accordionists to post information, photographs, and vidoes. Each member get a page to use to post their material. There are also blogging sections available to the members. Events can also be posted, and TAN can be used to track RSVP's and attendees.
• 3rd Coast Accordion Network is a web site/mailing list ("Squueezenet") set up by a group of accordionists from Austin, Texas, to keep in touch and to promote the accordion.
• An International Accordion Forum, set up by Michelangelo Topo -- mostly Italian, but also English, French and Spanish.

• The trekharmonika group () is a mailing list in Dutch about the diatonic accordion (moderated by Andrys Stienstra). () Subscribe by sending email to trekharmonika-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
• Accordion related Yahoo groups
• A list of Accordion groups at groups.yahoo.com

• Yahoo group / mailing list diatonic, about diatonic accordions

Blogs

• The blog of Accordeonman () seems to be dormant -- he posted 'accordionist of the week' articles from May 2004 to January 2005.
• www.acordeon.es, () is a general site about the accordion, in Spain and beyond, with some history and concert announcements, reviews, etc.
• Ancia Libera () is the blog of Domenico, a.k.a. Uomomantice, dedicated to the accordion -- with fairly regular updates.

• ANI.PAS' accordion blog, about her private collection of old/ rare instruments.
• Ivan Armbsy has a blog about all kinds of free reed and keyboard instruments. He plays accordion semi-professionally for Catherine Feeny and less professionally with Ipswich, Suffolk based folk/country/etc. band Mike Summers and The Doons
• Le bistrot des accordéons ()

• The Cajun Squeezebox Blog with information, news, ideas, and tablatures for Cajun songs
• chamame.com.br () is dedicated to Chamamé, as you'ld expect; it had MP3 downloads, biographies, articles, and even some videos. Currently it is 'in maintenance', but some information can still be found on the Chamame.com.br blog
• Gary Chapin from Maine plays traditional French music, from the central regions of that country, on a two-row diatonic accordion.

• Yasuhiro Kobayashi (COBA) () is probably the most famous accordionist from Japan. A blog for COBA. ()
• Danças Ocultas () from Portugal is a "concertina" quartet (-- but concertina is Portuguese for diatonic accordion!), consisting of Artur Fernandes, Filipe Cal, Filipe Ricardo and Francisco Miguel. All are conservatory educated (but not in diatonic accordion). They play self-composed non-traditional music -- they play folk festivals because of their instruments, classical concerts because of their repertoire, and pop concerts because of their approach. The Danças Ocultas () Weblog. A live recording of Danças Ocultas in Real Audio/MP3 format, part of Rootsworld's virtual Free Reed Festival. A review of their self-titled Danças Ocultas CD. Another Danças Ocultas page, at their Dutch agent's site. A myspace page for Danças Ocultas ()
• The Adventures of AccordionGuy in the 21st Century is the blog of Joey deVilla from Toronto. He plays "Mostly pop and rock -- Nine Inch Nails, Fatboy Slim, AC/DC and a pretty mean Britney." His day job is programming; apparently he does use his accordion for presentations (but mainly for attracting women :-)

• PAISANO Accordions is Tony Errico's blog (He's the musician on the CD that accompanies the Grandpa's Magical Accordion children's book). Amongst others his blog contains a series of posts about disassembling and repairing the bass mechanism of an accordion.
• Blogger Fiona has taken up the accordion
• Kris Hughes has taugh piano accordion in Edinburgh for over 20 years. On her blog you can ask questions about accordion technique etc. Kris is also happy to offer distance learning for those without a teacher = (for example video coaching).

• Sylvie Jamet's accordion blog () deals with all all kinds of accordion music -- classical, jazz, world music, musette, etc. It contains information about various workshops, festivals, concerts, etc, mostly in France but also abroad, as well as articles about pedagogy, musicians, orchestras, composers, etc.
• learnaccordion is a blog by Thomas Fröjd about learning the accordion, with articles about how to get started, buying a second hand accordion, left hand technique, chord combining, etc.
• Let's Polka is the blog of Anna and Chris Saccheri, who met through their mutual love of the accordion. They write about all things accordion, not just Polka -- any style as long as there's an accordion

• Pancordia, the two-fisted accordion weblog, is a place for sharing accordion resources, information, ideas and enthusiasm.
• squeezeblog () is a blog (currently paused) about the accordion in Portugal.