Sanfona is a collective of musicians performing music with French and jazz influences. Bandleader, Jo Abbott creates arrangements for Sanfona and gathers together talented and creative artists from the Melbourne music scene for each performance. Jo’s influences for Sanfona include Satie, Ludovic Beier; Nino Rota; Richard Galliano and the Luc family (Bayonne, France) .

Sanfona bring high energy improvisations, colourful melodies and toe- tapping grooves to each performance, blending accordion, guitar, trumpet, bass and drums.