What I was told by a couple of the principal accordion shop owners/teachers/restorers in Paris while making the pilgrimage rounds during visits in 2017-2019, is that in Paris itself, interest in accordion is scant to an extreme degree. It is a shock to get there and realize that in a city that figures so hugely in the history of accordion playing, composing, and storied virtuosos, there is almost no accordion music to be found. To the degree there is interest in Paris musette and swing music on the accordion, it is happening outside of Paris, and while there is more interest outside of Paris, the interest is not huge.
In Paris one can go hear Django-style gypsy swing played by gypsy guitarists at a small enclave near the northern periphique, and there is or was a weekly Django-swing session in an Irish pub near the cite de ville where an accordionist is sometimes there in the session circle. There is a small group of musette devotees who have periodic dances and things in one of the banlieux outside Paris. But the accordion is nearly invisible in Paris.
Outside Paris in France itself, there are people playing jazz and musette on CBA. But much of the accordion interest remaining in France is bisonoric/diatonic button box playing, in the balfolk scene in Auvergne, Bretagne, and elsewhere.
www.theguardian.com
www.laboitedaccordeon.fr
....meanwhile in the south some great accordionists can be found around the regions...**** fashionistas
www.lamalleauxaccordeons.fr
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