Common Good Books is getting loud to celebrate “Thinking Outside the Squeezebox II.” We’re kicking off with an accordion serenade in the store at 10:00am, Saturday, September 22, 2012, and following up with a chance to meet ethnomusicologist and author Marion Jacobson at O’Gara’s at noon.

Stroll the aisles of Common Good Books, browsing our shelves and enjoying the dulcet tones of an accordion flash mob. That’s right, we’re giving you a sample of the music going on just up the street at Thinking Outside the Squeezebox 2, The Second Annual National Alternative Accordion Symposium and Festival.

Thinking Outside the Squeezebox 2 (September 21-23) is a celebration of the accordion and an opportunity for musicians to play together, exchange ideas and explore new music. Traditional accordion music is wonderfully ethnically diverse. Think Jazz, Rock, Zydeco, Klezmer, Tejano, Polka, Folk, and Classical accordion music in the same room and you'll have a better understanding of what the symposium is all about. Learn more and find a complete schedule of performers--including Dan Newton and Maggie Martin and the Mad Maggies--at www.outsidethesqueezebox.com.