At the opening of the 123rd Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) General Assembly of Delegates in Arrasate, Spain on the 5th of December, CIA President Raymond Bodell (picture left) made an appeal to accordionists around the world.

World Accordion Day “what are you doing for World Accordion Day to promote the accordion in your country?”

World Accordion day is on the 6th May, which is the day the accordion was patented in 1829.

World Accordion Day started in 2009 and has been a huge success, generating enormous positive publicity for the accordion. A key part of this event is the World Accordion Day website.

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 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 that website. This site is already a very valuable resource for the media reporting World Accordion Day.

No event is too big or too small. ALL accordion events celebrating World Accordion Day are welcome.

This is a promotion for the accordion which every accordion enthusiast can participate in and help bring our accordion world together as well as strongly promote the accordion to your population.

Therefore, I urge you to return to your country after this Congress and encourage broad national support from all levels of your accordionists for this exciting new project. Please – let all accordionists work together to make strong promotion to our populations with World Accordion Day.