Calling All Accordion music lovers and afionados everywhere. Have you seen Roberta Cantow’s amazing Accordions Rising Documentary. Purchasing/watching this film is a great way to celebrate World Accordion Day (WAD) on May 6. “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.

“Accordions Rising” was released at the end of 2015. If you have not seen it, it is still new and Accordions are still rising, as is their reputation!. Streaming now – Amazon Prime members can watch for free! Its available in many countries on primevideo.com, Roku (Free Download) at Indie Rights (Streaming for Free), Barnes and Noble, Amazon and Best Buy. Look on the Accordions Rising Documentary site for full information where to view/purchase.

Roberta Cantow was recognized with her first film grant from The American Film Institute while still a graduate film student at NYU. Through the years, The New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and others provided grants for the completion and distribution of 4 film works and videos. She received a NY Area Emmy for her film, “Clotheslines” about the symbolic and artistic role of laundry in women’s lives, as well as many others.

Roberta’s work has been exhibited in many of the venues for independents, including a presentation in the Cineprobe Series of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Her four 16mm films were selected for archival preservation by the Donnell Media Center, New York City, in 2001. All of her film and video work will be archived in the newly named Special Collections of Smith College.

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