The Akord festival was established in 2010 by the MKC Maribor Youth Culture Centre. A continuation of the former cycle of open-air ethno music concerts organised in the old city centre of Maribor, the festival
-preciziral its focus on accordion, with its večrazsežnost/kompleksnost/spornost in Slovene culture and
- pojavnost in modern music, which is called ethno. and commercial. which is called oberkrainer polka and waltz based music.
- play on the relation between the urban and the rural environment.
- With one foot firmly set in this field, problematiziran by serious musical critique,
the festival is also called the Festival of accordion music with a difference.
The programme till now presented both sides of the accordion's cultural positioning, placing the more jazz oriented Bratko Bibič & The Madleys, the rock x inclined Kvinton and the innovative accordion player Jure Tori (also playing in the rock band Orlek) ,
who developed the new accordion music styles during the two decades of playing in the band, and the Austrian musician Lothar Lässer who has collaborated in the ensembles Deishovida, Budowitz, Sandy Lopicic Orkestar, Bukowina Club Orkestar and writes music for theatres in Graz, Klagenfurt and Vienna.
The first edition featured also the screening of the film "The Accordion Players" documentary directed by Dušan Moravec and Leon Matek, produced by the Vertigo/Emotionfilm.
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