u/TheNoBullshitVegan

My friend/performance partner and I co-direct the annual qathet Accordion Fest. As a small festival supported by a non-profit music school, our marketing budget is $0. So we get creative! Radio interviews, articles and interviews for local newspapers and magazines, social media, fundraising concerts, and... unhinged accordion videos.

We live in a very small town, so having 235 audience members at our Opening Night Concert was a huge win. Our Accordion Cabaret event sold out weeks in advance. We had 11 performing artists, a 15-piece accordion band, 3 workshops, a sight-reading song circle on the beach, and an accordion parade.

One minute I’m coaching chin-ups and nerding out about protein intake. The next I’m performing tango music in a floor-length evening gown while hauling 20 pounds of accordion around. And after all that, it made sense to do some accordion-weighted chin-ups in gym clothes and fancy concert performance hair 😆