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Toronto Mayor John Tory’s office used a request for comment on the matter to restate the mayor’s commitment to building new transit.

“What people do on that transit once it is up and running – whether it is playing Despacito on an accordion or Finesse on a ukulele — is entirely up to them and the good people at the TTC who set the rules around that sort of thing,” Tory’s spokesman Don Peat said in an email.

Judging from the videos, it appears that Despacito is the single song in the accordionists’ repertoire – though one commenter claimed to have heard them playing Bailamos by Enrique Iglesias, and there is a video of one of them playing a different tune. It is also difficult to tell whether the two men prefer to play together or separately. Some videos show one man, some the other, some both.

At least one prominent musician in Toronto’s accordion scene, Claudio Santaluce, did not recognize the men. But he was nonetheless impressed by the performance. “They sound really good,” he said.

For now, the question remains: Who are these men, trying to bring joy to a joyless place?