Have you seen Roberta Cantow’s amazing documentary, “Accordions Rising”?Purchasing/watching this film is a great way to celebrate World Accordion Day! “Accordions Rising” offers entertaining interviews, anecdotal commentary and both formal and informal music performances from celebrated accordionists, composers, and bands working in America today.

The film provides a tapestry of fascinating individuals, their attitudes, deep passions, and above all else, profound dedication to the instrument. You will learn that these musicians have an audience, from some of the hippest hideaways to the most sought after mainstream venues. The film makes clear that the accordion world includes everything from wacky and kitsch to sophisticated, serious, meditative and post-modern.

Film maker Roberta’s independent films have been recognized with production and distribution grants from: The American Film Institute, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Jerome Foundation, among others. Her latest film is about the accordion entitled Accordions Rising!

Accordions Rising Documentary filmmaker Roberta Cantow shares, “ Attention all Accordion Lovers and Those Who Appreciate Accordion Music. I would like to reach out to public libraries this year in honor of June as Accordion Awareness Month. Libraries interested in a special public event can purchase the public performance rights from me for $99.00 and with that, the option to purchase multiple copies of the DVD for $7.00 – less than places like Amazon, where it is also available for purchase.

I am asking for your help, if interested, in reaching out to your local libraries regarding their interest.I will be happy to send you the promo I created for this purpose exclusively, and who would be better at making the suggestion than you out there, among the film’s many fans? Time for the rest of the world “to get what can come from a good squeeze.”

“Accordions Rising is the most exhaustive and fair representation of the accordion in all its facets—popular, ethnic, jazz, contemporary classical, avant garde– I have encountered thus far in film. Thank you for this lovely exposé. It covered all the bases of the accordion’s strange and wonderful world and truly needed to be done.”
Robert Young McMahan, DMA /composer and contemporary classical accordionist / Prof. of Music Theory, Composition, and Accordion, The College of New Jersey / Officer of the American Accordionists’ Association and Chair of its Composers Commissioning Committee

Roberta thanks everyone for their support. You can email her for the promo she mentioned at: rcantow@originaldigital.net