Fort Wayne seems to be a good launching pad for musicians of an Americana and progressive bluegrass bent.

The Avett Brothers, who recently were the focal point of a documentary by Judd Apatow, performed on a makeshift stage at a convergence of downtown streets in Fort Wayne in 2006.

The Band Perry performed at a now-defunct country bar here in 2010 and the Wailin’ Jennys, who were a favorite of Garrison Keillor when he hosted “A Prairie Home Companion,” performed twice in Fort Wayne in 2006: at a fabled (and long shuttered) coffeehouse and at C2G Music Hall.

Now it’s the Accidentals turn to make the most of a Summit City boost.

They will perform at C2G on November 5.

When the Accidentals first appeared here in early 2016, only a few local and non-local people knew who they were.

A lot has changed in the last twenty or so months.

The Accidentals came about because two self-described orchestra geeks, Savannah Buist and Katie Larson, were thrown together by happenstance. The Traverse City, Michigan teens volunteered for a high school assignment and a forced collaboration soon became an enthusiastic one.

They decided to call themselves The Accidentals (a double entendre referencing a musical note and serendipity) and later added drummer Michael Dause.

The Accidentals were “discovered” by rocker Marshall Crenshaw and producer Stewart Lerman in 2015. The gentlemen signed the band to a production deal.

But the band declined to renew that contract in 2016.

“It didn’t really work out,” Larson said. “We decided to move in a direction that was mutually agreed upon.”

The Accidentals subsequently self-produced the 2016 EP Parking Lot and offered it as a free download. In early 2017, the band announced that they had signed with Sony Masterworks.

Their major label debut, Odyssey, was released in August. It features guest appearances by The Decemberists, Keller Williams and Carbon Leaf, among many illustrious others.

It is not uncommon to hear horror stories of music ruined by major label imperiousness, but Larson said that was not The Accidentals’ experience with Sony Masterworks.

“We were super lucky,” she said. “Before we signed the deal, we literally sat down with the head of the label at the time and he told us he believed in our creativity and our vision and the songs.

“We told him we wanted to capture the energy of our live shows,” Larson said, “and broke any rules of any genres. I feel like we had a lot of creative control and the end product is something that we’re really proud of.”

The band that Fort Wayne fans saw in 2016 is different from the one they will see in 2017.

“We’ve been on the road for three years now, full-time,” Buist said. “That’s definitely changed our music a lot. When you play it every night, it gets a lot tighter than it used to be. When you play it hundreds and hundreds of times, it really solidifies the arrangements. It also strengthens the bond between the three of us.”

Opening for, and collaborating with, such artists as Crenshaw and Williams has increased the band’s confidence, sophistication and professionalism as well, Buist said.

Williams, especially, has taken the band under his dexterous wing, she said.

“We played on his album and we asked him to play on ours,” Buist said. “We said, ‘What do you charge?” and he said, “Exactly what you charged me.’ We didn’t charge him at all.”

Buist said Williams recently asked them to be his back-up band for a series of shows in Colorado.

The whole notion of being anyone’s backup band is still a relatively new one for the Accidentals, Buist said.

A few years back, the band was opening for cellist Ben Sollee at City Winery in Chicago. Sollee’s backing musicians got stuck in a snowstorm in Kentucky and he asked the Accidentals to provide musical support in their stead.

“At first, we were absolutely terrified,” she said.

“At that point,” Dause said, “I had only been in the band a couple of months. Suddenly it was like, “What? Back up Ben Sollee? What is what is even going on right now?”

Buist said they recently had to improvise a set with a horn-filled Toronto funk band called Turbo Street Funk.

The collaboration was the brainchild of a Canadian event coordinator who has traditionally filled the final night of a music festival with such stunt alliances.

“We actually successfully improvised a set together but only because, between songs, we would shout the key signatures across the stage to each other,” Buist said.

Heavy touring can be a strain on band cohesion, but Buist said the members of The Accidentals remain close.

“It’s actually pretty easy,” she said. “In a lot of ways, we’re really similar. We’re introverted, so we know how to respect each other’s space. We all kind of want to do the same things on our days off.”

“Today we’re probably all going to go to a science museum and then eat a lot of food together,” Larson said. “It helps that we’re all so much alike.”

“We bicker like siblings sometimes,” Buist said. “But our love for each other is really strong.”

Creative collusions with new musicians and unfamiliar genres have made the band bolder and more ambitious artistically, Larson said.

“I feel more inspired to create,” she said. “We have aspirations to tour with horn players and bring out more string players.”

Larson said the band will be doing a couple of album release shows in Michigan soon and they plan to add lighting and video components to their live mix.

“The more you see and experience on the road,” she said, “the more ideas you get. The same happens in our songwriting.”

Increased experience hasn’t entirely eliminated stage fright, however.

“I still have stage fright,” Larson said. “It is more situational than it used to be. But all of us suffer from our own anxieties and social worries. I find myself all the time overanalyzing the audience reaction, overanalyzing our performance. We’re all perfectionists.

“I’ll psych myself out,” she said. “Then there are the times when I know we had a great show and even I can’t talk myself out of it. I love the crowd at C2G. They’ve very supportive, very engaged, very encouraging. You can tell that everyone in the room is sharing a positive experience. I am really looking forward to coming back.”

Even though the band’s national profile has been raised considerably in recent months, they are still very much a part of the Traverse City music scene, Larson said.

“We still live there,” Buist said. “We are still very much tied in to our Michigan home life.”

“Coming home” after a tour always means returning to Traverse City, she said.

“When we come home for our (album) release shows, I already know that at least six people are going to make us homemade cookies,” Larson said. “So I am really looking forward to that.”