Akkordeonale 2026

A festival comes of age! When it was first launched in 2009, the Akkordeonale was still busy pulling the accordion out of its niche existence and putting it in the spotlight. The festival quickly became an extraordinary experience across all cultures and styles, always innovative, exhilarating, and refreshingly different. A unique declaration of love for what Akkordeonale founder Servais Haanen calls the most beautiful instrument in the world. For Servais, this will be his last tour before handing the festival over to younger hands. (...an era continues!) Good reasons to invite musicians and companions from different Akkordeonale years: You can look forward to an ensemble mix full of sparkling temperament, esprit, and poetry with You can expect an ensemble mix full of sparkling temperament, esprit, and poetry with southern Brazilian gaucho music, rembetiko, and Balkan jazz from the Greek metropolis, intimate, expressive minimal music in Italian, virtuoso French keyboard magic, Dutch sound aesthetics, unconventional cello, and a grooving saxophone. As always, pulsating alternations between solos and ensemble pieces are at the heart of the Akkordeonale. As different as the personalities, cultural backgrounds, and playing styles may be, the common language of music creates a lively understanding that does not care about borders and divisions. Exciting interactions, musical richness, and the joy of performing together weave together into something completely new, never heard before. A celebration of sounds! Adrenaline and balm for the soul! See — Hear — Enjoy Adriana de Los Santos (Brazil) Gaucho women's power Maurizio Minardi (Italy) Fellini on the accordion Zabou Guérin (France) Colorful — Lively — Virtuoso Dimos Vougioukas (Greece) Specialties from Mount Olympus Servais Haanen (Netherlands) The master of fine sounds Diogo Picão (Portugal) Saxophone Johanna Stein (Germany) Cello