Accordion-player, composer and singer Rob Curto is New York City-born, but currently resides in his adopted city of Philadelphia. Rob plays Upbeat, Innovative, Accordion-driven American Roots Music, influenced by artists from Bela Fleck to Buckwheat Zydeco.

Rob has a long history of music-making, with roots in a musical family steeped in the music of swing-era America, over 20 years of experience playing Brazilian dance music, and half a decade deeply immersed in Irish traditional music through his mentor Billy McComiskey. Rob has been described as bringing a “workingman’s spirit to the bellows-craft of the accordion”.

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