Jonas Malfliet broke his little finger when he was three years old. Nothing too bad, his mother said. The only thing he won’t be able to do, is to become a professional musician.
It turns out he quite stubbornly didn’t want to listen to his mother, and nowadays cannot keep his fingers off the black and white keys! He pops up with his accordion in world music groups such as Damast Duo and Jiraan (with Syrian violinist Shalan Alhamwy), the eight-piece belgo-brazilian party band Euforró and the French collective Les Poissons Voyageurs.
He has been artistic mentor in Ethno music camps in Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Denmark and Belgium and leads the ensemble of Fiddlers on the move.
Furthermore, he enjoys nothing more than traveling around and jamming 1001 nights with musicians from the most diverse traditions, trying to figure out what music he likes to play best.

Mentored in:
- Ethno Germany 2023 & 24
- Ethno Croatia 2024
- Fiddlers on the Move 2024 & 25
- Gooikstage 2019
- Ethno Estonia on the road 2019
- Ethno Estonia 2019
- Ruhnu Music Camp Estonia 2019
- Ethno Flanders 2018
- Ethno Denmark 2017
Participated in:
- Folk Marathon Palermo 2024-25
- Etno Histeria 2020 & 21 & 22
- AKDT Forro dance 2022
- La Granada 2020
- Fiddlers on the move 2017/18/19/20
- Folkmarathon Ghent 2019-20 (as main organizer)
- Folkmarathon Porto 2018-19
- Ethno Algeria 2018
- Ethno Catalunya 2018
- Folkmarathon Croatia 2018
- Folkmarathon Czech Republic 2017
- Ethnofonik All Stars Paris 2017
- Porto Folk Gathering 2017
- Rila Music Exchange Bulgaria 2017 & 2019
- Ethno Finland 2017
- Ritmo con Señas AKDT 2017
- Ethno Palestina 2017
- Folkmarathon Germany 2016
- Ethno Denmark 2016
- Ethno England 2016
- Ethno Portugal 2015
- Ethnofonik 2015
- Folk & Jazz 2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010, from 2011-2014 as mentor & organizer
- Soundpainting Paris 2013 & 2015 (with Walter Thompson)
- Latin-American percussion AKDT 2012
- Folk Ensemble AKDT 2009
- Brazilian Music Mogno Brussels 2008
- Folk Ensemble Gooikstage 2006
- Jazz Clinic Dworp 2005
- J&M Jazz Ensemble Dworp 2002