Cotati Accordion Festival

I have a thing for accordions. Not that I can play one well at all, but I like them. I like how they sopund, I like how they look, I like the people that play them. Pretty much every culture in the Western hemisphere has accordion music at some level of their folk roots, and it ain't just Polkas, baby. There is some pretty hot accordion music that comes out of South America and Eastern Europe and Greece and Italy and Africa and even Quebec! Don't turn your ears inside out because the word "accordion" makes you think of the Lawrence Welk music they played in your Great Grand-Nanny's nursing home.

Every August for the last eighteen years Cotati, California Hosts a magnificent accordion festival. It is well worth whatever effort it takes you to get there. You will hear some phenomenal music and get to see a heckuva lotta accordions as well!

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