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Charlie Gillingham playing the accordion

This is a list of articles describing popular music acts that incorporate the accordion. The accordion appeared in popular music from the 1900s-1960s. This half century is often called the "Golden Age of the Accordion." Three players: Pietro Frosini, and the two brothers Count Guido Deiro and Pietro Deiro were major influences at this time.

Band or musician	Accordionist	Style
Agalloch	?	Folk metal, doom metal, black metal, neofolk, post-rock
Abney Park	"Captain" Robert Brown	Steampunk
Arcade Fire	Régine Chassagne Richard Reed Parry ^[1]	Indie rock
The Band	Garth Hudson	Americana
Beirut	Perrin Cloutier	Combines elements of Eastern European and folk sounds
Calexico	Martin Wenk	Rock
Counting Crows	Charlie Gillingham	Rock
The Decemberists	Jenny Conlee	Folk rock
Deep Forest	Michel Sanchez	Combines electronic beats with world music
Del Amitri	Andy Alston	Rock
Detektivbyrån	Anders Flanders	Combination of electronica, folk and French pop
DeVotchKa	Tom Hagerman	Indie rock
The Dropkick Murphys	Tim Brennan	Celtic punk
The E Street Band	Danny Federici ^[2] Charles Giordano	Rock
Equilibrium	?	Viking metal, folk metal, symphonic black metal
Finntroll	?	Folk metal, black metal, humppa
Flogging Molly	Matt Hensley	Celtic punk
Folkearth	?	Viking metal, folk metal, black metal
Gogol Bordello	Yuri Lemeshev ^[3]	Gypsy punk
Gotan Project	Nini Flores	Tango, Electronic
Great Big Sea	Bob Hallett	Traditional Newfoundland folk and rock
Green Day	Tré Cool	Punk rock
The Hooters	Rob Hyman	Rock
Bruce Hornsby	Bruce Hornsby	Rock. Played accordion at various Grateful Dead concerts.
Jason Webley	Self	Combination of traditional music, romani music, punk
John Mellencamp	?	Rock. Has included the accordion in most of his music since 1987's The Lonesome Jubilee.
Julieta Venegas	Self	Latin pop
Jump, Little Children	Matthew Bivins	Combines Irish influences with an alternative rock sound
Katzenjammer	?	Pop
Korpiklaani	Juho Kauppinen	Folk metal
Lemon Demon	Neil Cicierega	Indie rock
Mägo de Oz	Sergio Cisneros	Folk metal, folk rock
mewithoutYou	Aaron Weiss	Alternative Rock
mekons	Eric Bellis aka Rico bell	Alternative Rock
Moonsorrow	Henri Sorvali	Folk metal
Motion Trio	(Accordion Trio)	Collaborations with other artists (such as Bobby McFerrin and Michał Urbaniak)
My Superhero	Mike Berault	Ska punk
Neutral Milk Hotel	Julian Koster	Indie Rock
Panic! at the Disco	Brendon Urie	Alternative rock
The Pogues	James Fearnley	Irish punk, pub music
Scythian	Danylo Fedoryka	Folk, Celtic, Celtic rock, gypsy, Americana
Skyforger	?	Folk metal, black metal
Silvestre Dangond	Juancho De la Espriella	Vallentos, Modern and very popular Colombian music
Sound Horizon	Revo	Combination of many genres, ranging from heavy metal to classical
Stolen Babies	Dominique Lenore Persi	Avant-garde metal
Styx	Dennis DeYoung	Hard rock, progressive rock
Svartsot	Hans-Jørgen Martinus Hansen	Folk metal, Viking metal
That Handsome Devil	Jeremy Page and Andy Bauer	Alternative rock, alternative hip hop
They Might Be Giants	John Linnell ^[4]	Alternative rock
Those Darn Accordions	various	Accordion-based comedy rock band
Tiger Lillies	Martyn Jacques	Brechtian and gypsy cabaret
Tom Waits	?	Jazz, rock, blues, folk, experimental
Tosca Tango Orchestra	Glover Gil	Nuevo tango, classical music
Turisas	Janne Mäkinen	Folk metal, Viking metal
The Twilight Sad	Andy MacFarlane	Scottish folk rock, indie rock
Vitas	Vitas (studio), ? (live)	Eclectic Russian pop
Weddings Parties Anything	Mark Wallace	folk rock
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Self	Parody music
Windir	Valfar	Folk metal, Viking metal, black metal
The World/Inferno Friendship Society	Franz Nicolay ^[5]	Cabaret punk
Yann Tiersen	Self	French, Avant-garde

Silvestre Dangond - Vallentos (Colombia)^{[clarification needed]}

References

^ On tracks "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)" and "Wake Up", respectively
^ AP (April 18, 2008). "Danny Federici of E Street Band dies at 58". 2009 The Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-07-24.
^ "Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punk Hero", NPR Music, August 15, 2007, retrieved 2010-01-26
^ "John Linnell Biography". Starpulse.com. 1959-06-12. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
^ Best known as the keyboardist of indie rock group The Hold Steady

[1] On tracks "Neighborhood #2 (Laïka)" and "Wake Up", respectively

[2] AP (April 18, 2008). "Danny Federici of E Street Band dies at 58". 2009 The Associated Press. Retrieved 2009-07-24.

[3] "Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello's Gypsy Punk Hero", NPR Music, August 15, 2007, retrieved 2010-01-26

[4] "John Linnell Biography". Starpulse.com. 1959-06-12. Retrieved 2011-10-11.

[5] Best known as the keyboardist of indie rock group The Hold Steady

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