The Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) is pleased to welcome you to World Accordion Day (WAD) on 6th May or nearby days. With the relaxing in many countries of Covid-19 rules that had been affecting accordion rehearsals, concerts and competitions, there is expected to be more World Accordion Day (WAD) events for 2022. The WAD site will report those events that are able to happen.
For groups and individuals around the world: What are you doing for World Accordion Day to promote the accordion in your country? World Accordion Day is on May 6th, which is the day the accordion was patented in 1829.
Our first World Accordion Day was held on 6th May 2009, marking the 180th birthday of the accordion – 6 May 1829, the date the accordion patent in Vienna, Austria was filed by Cyrill Demian (1772–1849) an organ and piano maker of Armenian origin, accompanied by his two sons Karl and Guido.
Consign: No. 1433 listed a new type of instrument consisting of a small box with “feathers of metal plates and bellows fixed to it” making it easy to carry and play. The new instrument was seven to nine inches long, three-and-a-half wide, and two inches high. The bellows were fixed above the box with five claves fixed below. The makers claimed it was possible to perform marches, arias, melodies, even by an amateur of music with little practice, and to play the loveliest and most pleasant chords of three, four and five voices with little practice. The patent was approved a short time later on May 23, 1829.
Since 2009, World Accordion Day has been very successful, generating a lot of positive publicity for the accordion. Every association, group, orchestra, performer and teacher, is asked to actively support this event by encouraging national and local accordion activities to happen in their country on this day or the weekend either side of World Accordion Day if that should be more convenient.
Everyone can register their World Accordion Day activity on the website and send a report of their event after for the website. Every association, group, orchestra, performer and teacher is asked to actively support WAD by encouraging national and local accordion activities to happen in their country on this day or the weekend either side of Accordion Day if that should be more convenient.Register Here
Please join us for this annual celebration, as accordionists from around the world pay homage to our wonderful instrument. This global event will serve as an exciting means of bringing us together in our efforts to promote and elevate the awareness and status of the accordion!
Every association, group, orchestra, performer and teacher is asked to actively support WAD by encouraging national and local accordion activities to happen in their country on this day or the weekend either side of Accordion Day if that should be more convenient.
No event is too big or too small. ALL accordion events celebrating accordion are welcome. This is a CIA promotion for the accordion in which every accordion enthusiast can participate and help bring our accordion world together as well as strongly promote the accordion.
